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Ancient Croatia
26000 BC - 27000 BC	Neanderthals populated the lands of today Croatia.
295	Roman Emperor Diocletian began building a fortified palace near the place of his birth. Later that became the historic downtown of Split, Croatia.
614	Croats settled in the approximate region of today Croatia - between the Adriatic Sea and the Rivers Drava and Sava.
925	The Croatian Kingdom was founded and King Tomislav became the first king.
1102	Hungary forced the Croats to become part of their kingdom.

13 - 19th Century
1202	The fourth crusade sacked Zara, a rival city of Venice.
1527	Croatia formed a union with Austria.
1853	Sveti Ivan Na Puccini, the famous Croatian lighthouse was built on the Northern Adriatic Sea.
1856	Nikola Tesla, the famous electrical engineer and inventor, was born.

20th Century
1902	Croats and Serbs clashed and the Austro-Hungarian army was called to restore the peace.
1941	All Croatian Jews were ordered to wear a star shape with the letter Z.
1941	Germany invaded Yugoslavia.
1941-1945	The Nazi forces occupied Croatia, all Jews and Gypsies were killed. During that time called the Ustashi regime, several hundred thousand were killed with the aim of creating a “100% Roman Catholic State”.

Post World Wars and at the Threshold of an Ethnic Conflict
1981	In the town of Medjugorje local youths declared to have witnessed regular monthly appearances by the Virgin Mary.
1990	Franjo Tudjman was elected to be president in the first multi-party elections in the country after the Communist regime.
1991	Croatia and Slovenia wanted to declare independence if in the Yugoslav republics some new agreement was not reached.
1991 June 25	The civil war in Yugoslavia began after the proclamation of independence made by Croatia and Slovenia. More entities of Yugoslavia broke away, leaving only Serbia and Montenegro.
1991 June 27	Serbian and Croatian militias clashed. In the next months severe fights proceeded and the western observers were appealed by the ferocity of the attacks on both sides.
1991 September 25	The UN Security Council imposed an embargo on all arms against Yugoslavia.
1991	Dubrovnik, the Croatian port city was bombarded by the Serbs.
1991 December	Germany gave a diplomatic recognition to Croatia and Serbia. The EU followed by saying it would also admit Slovenia and Croatia as independent states.
1992	Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia joined the UN.
1994	Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Croats went on to fight each other.
1996	The Serbian and Croatian presidents agreed to establish diplomatic relations.
1997	The United States endorsed a 13 million USD loan to Croatia.
1998	Thousands of Croats gathered in Zagreb to protest against high unemployment and falling standards of living.
1999	Croatia filed charges in the Hague against Yugoslavian genocide ever after the proclaimed independence of Croatia in 1991.

Present Day Croatia
2000	Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, allowed thousands of refugees of the war to go home.
2001	A sort of grape characteristic only to California was found thriving wild in Croatia.
2003	Pope John Paul II visited Croatia for five days in five cities.
2004	Croatian cavers descended 1,693 feet into the deepest known hole in the Velebit Mountains in Croatia.
2006	NATO Membership aspirations were endorsed by Dick Cheney, vice-president of the US.