Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise - Indymedia

Chronology of events
4 May 1980 Josip Broz Tito dies.
August 1980 Political trials in Croatia (against Tudjman and others).
11 March 1981 The first unrest in Kosovo.
May 1981 Milka Planinc succeeds Veselin Djuranović as head of the
government.
October 1982 Introduction of the “border tax” for foreign trips.
February 1985 Branko Mikulić becomes new head of the government.
February 1986 Slobodan Milošević becomes Serbian party chief.
April 1986 Milan Kučan becomes Slovenian party chief and Azem Vllasi
becomes party chief in Kosovo.
May 1986 Stanko Stojčević becomes party chief in Croatia.
End of September 1987 Slobodan Milošević becomes sole ruler in Serbia, at
the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Serbian communist party.
25–26 March 1988 Unsuccessful attempt by the army leadership to intervene
in Slovenia.
31 May 1988 Arrest of four journalists in Slovenia on the order of military
justice.
May 1988 Kaqusha Jashari becomes party chief in Kosovo.
June 1988 Veljko Kadijević replaces Branko Mamula as Defense Minister.
End of July 1988 The Kosovo Serbs establish a committee for the
organization of mass demonstrations throughout Yugoslavia, in support of
Slobodan Milošević.
5 October 1988 The leadership of Vojvodina resigns after a mass
demonstration in Novi Sad.
19 November 1988 Milošević extracts changes in the leadership of Kosovo,
by means of mass demonstrations.
30 December 1988 The Mikulić government loses a vote of no confidence in
the parliament and resigns. Ante Marković becomes the new Prime Minister.
11 January 1989 After mass demonstrations by Milošević’s supporters in
Titograd, the Montenegrin leadership resigns.
24 January 1989 Demonstrations in Priština after the passage of the new,
centralistic constitution of Serbia in the Serbian parliament.