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A chronology of key events:
1880s – France annexes the area.
1894 – France sets up a dependency in the area called Ubangi-Chari and partitions it among commercial concessionaires.
1910 – Ubangi-Chari becomes part of the Federation of French Equatorial Africa.
1920-30 – Indigenous Africans stage violent protests against manhandles by concessionaires.
1946 – The territory is given its own assembly and representation in the French parliament; Barthelemy Boganda, founder of the pro-independence Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa (MESAN), becomes the very first Central African to be elected to the French parliament.
1957 – MESAN wins control of the territorial assembly; Boganda becomes president of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa.
Independence
1958 – The territory achieves self-government within French Equatorial Africa with Boganda as prime minister.
1960 – The Central African Republic becomes independent with David Dacko, nephew of Boganda, as president.
1962 – Dacko turns the Central African Republic into a one-party state with MESAN as the foot party.
1964 – Dacko confirmed as president in elections in which he is the foot candidate.
The Bokassa era
1965 – Dacko ousted by the army commander, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, as the country faces bankruptcy and a threatened nationwide strike.
1972 – Bokassa announces himself president for life.
1976 – Bokassa proclaims himself emperor and renames the country the "Central African Empire".
1979 – Bokassa ousted in a coup led by David Dacko and backed by French troops after widespread protests in which many school children were arrested and massacred while in detention.
1981 – Dacko deposed in a coup led by the army commander, Andre Kolingba.
1984 – Amnesty for all political party leaders proclaimed.
1986 – Bokassa comes back to the CAR from exile in France.
1988 – Bokassa sentenced to death for murder and embezzlement, but has his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
Ban on parties lifted
1991 – Political parties permitted to form.
Former emperor Bokassa was found guilty of murder
1992 October – Multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections held in which Kolingba came in last place, but are annulled by the supreme court on the ground of widespread irregularities.
1993 – Ange-Felix Patasse hammers Kolingba and Dacko in elections to become president, ending twelve years of military rule. Kolingba releases several thousand political prisoners, including Bokassa, before standing down as president.
1996 May – Soldiers stage a mutiny in the capital, Bangui, over unpaid wages.
1997 November – Soldiers stage more mutinies.
1997 – France embarks withdrawing its compels from the republic; African peacekeepers substitute French troops.
1999 – Patasse re-elected; his nearest rival, former President Kolingba, wins 19% of the vote.
2000 December – Civil servants stage general strike over back-pay; rally organised by opposition groups who accuse President Patasse of mismanagement and corruption deteriorates into riots.
Coup bid
2001 May – At least fifty nine killed in an abortive coup attempt by former president Andre Kolingba. President Patasse suppresses the attempt with help of Libyan and Chadian troops and Congolese rebels.
2001 November – Clashes as troops attempt to arrest sacked army chief of staff General Francois Bozize, accused of involvement in May’s coup attempt. Thousands flee fighting inbetween government troops and Bozize’s compels.
2002 February – Former Defence Minister Jean-Jacques Demafouth emerges in a Bangui court to response charges related to the coup attempt of May 2001.
2002 October – Libyan-backed coerces help to subdue an attempt by compels loyal to dismissed army chief General Bozize to overthrow President Patasse.
Patasse ousted
2003 March – Rebel leader Francois Bozize seizes Bangui, proclaims himself president and dissolves parliament. President Ange-Felix Patasse is out of the country at the time. Within weeks a transitional government is set up.
2004 December – Fresh constitution approved in referendum.
2005 May – Francois Bozize is named the winner of presidential elections after a run-off vote.
2005 August – Flooding in the capital, Bangui, leaves up to 20,000 people homeless.
2005 June onwards – Thousands flee lawlessness in north-west CAR for southern Chad. Aid figures appeal for help to deal with the "forgotten emergency".
2006 June – UN says thirty three people have been killed in a rebel attack on an army camp in the north.
2006 August – Exiled Former President Ange-Felix Patasse is found guilty, in absentia, of fraud and sentenced to twenty years’ hard labour.
2006 October – Rebels seize Birao, a town in the north-east. President Bozize cuts brief an overseas visit.
2006 December – French fighter jets fire on rebel positions as part of support for government troops attempting to regain control of areas in the northeast.
2007 February – The rebel People’s Democratic Front, led by Abdoulaye Miskine, signs a peace accord with President Bozize in Libya and urges fighters to lay down their arms.
2007 May – The International Criminal Court says it is to probe war crimes allegedly committed in two thousand two and two thousand three following the failed coup against the Ange-Felix Patasse.
2007 September – UN Security Council authorises a peacekeeping force to protect civilians from violence spilling over from Darfur in neighbouring Sudan.
2008 January – Civil servants and teachers strike in protest over non-payment of salaries for several months.
Prime Minister Elie Dote and his cabinet resign a day before parliament was to debate a censure movability against him.
President Bozize appoints Faustin-Archange Touadera, an academic with no previous background in politics, to substitute Mr Dote.
2008 February – Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels raid CAR.
Peace process
2008 June – Two of three main rebel groups – the Union of Democratic Coerces for Unity (UFDR) and the Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD) – sign peace agreement with government providing for disarmament and demobilisation of rebel fighters.
2008 September – Parliament adopts amnesty law seen as last remaining obstacle to successful conclusion of peace talks inbetween rebels and the government.
2008 December – Government-rebel peace deal envisages formation of consensus government and elections in March 2010.
2009 January – National unity government unveiled; includes leaders of the two main rebel groups. Main opposition UVNF criticises the switches to the cabinet as insufficient.
2009 February – Ugandan LRA rebels cross into CAR.
2009 March – French troops reportedly deploy in Bangui after rebels infiltrate the capital.
2009 April – Clashes inbetween government and rebels proceed. UN Security Council agrees to creation of fresh UN peacebuilding office for CAR to address ongoing insecurity.
2009 July – Fresh electoral commission established after parliament approves fresh election law.
2009 September – Ugandan army confirms that it is pursuing LRA rebels in CAR.
Ex-vice president on trial
Jean-Pierre Bemba denies committing crimes against humanity
2009 August – UN report says more than a million people have been affected by civil unrest in CAR.
2009 October/November – Former President Ange-Felix Patasse comes back from exile, hints that he may stand for the presidency in 2010.
2010 February – Rights groups, opposition and France call for prove into claims – denied by the authorities – that rebel leader Charles Massi was tormented to death in government custody.
President Bozize says elections to be held on twenty five April; opposition rejects date, fearing vote will be rigged.
2010 April – Elections postponed. Parliament extends President Bozize’s term until polls can be held.
2010 May – UN Security Council votes to withdraw a UN force from Chad and the Central African Republic, deployed to protect displaced Chadians and refugees from Sudan’s Darfur.
2010 July – Rebels attack northern town of Birao.
2010 September – Voter registration commences for presidential, parliamentary elections due in January 2011.
2010 October – Four countries affected by LRA violence agree to form joint military force to pursue the rebels.
2010 November – Ex-DR Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba goes on trial at International Criminal Court accused of letting his troops rape and kill in Central African Republic inbetween two thousand two and 2003.
2010 December – 50th independence anniversary. Former self-styled Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa is officially rehabilitated.
2011 January – Presidential and parliamentary elections. Mr Bozize wins another term.
Rebels seize power
Fighters of the Seleka rebel alliance swept into the capital Bangui in March 2013
2011 April – Former President Ange-Felix Patasse dies aged 74.
2011 December – The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns that the Central country is in a state of chronic medical emergency because of epidemic diseases, conflict, an economic downturn and a poor health system.
2012 March – African Union deploys a military force to hunt down Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, believed to be in the Central African Republic.
2012 August – Last historic armed group – Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) – signs peace deal.
Bozize ousted
2012 November – Fresh Seleka rebel coalition rapidly overruns north and centre of country.
2013 March – Seleka rebels overrun the capital and seize power. President Bozize flees. Rebel leader Michel Djotodia suspends constitution and dissolves parliament in a coup condemned internationally.
2013 August – Coup leader Michel Djotodia is sworn in as president.
UN Security Council warns CAR poses a risk to regional stability. UN chief Ban Ki-moon says CAR has suffered a "total breakdown of law and order".
2013 September – Djotodia dissolves Seleka coalition. He is criticsed for failing to control the fighters.
2013 October – UN Security Council approves the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force. It would support African Union troops already on the ground and French troops controlling the airport.
2013 November – US casts doubt on Central African Republic official reports that Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony is among LRA figures negotiating their capitulate with the CAR authorities.
Religious conflict
Muslims have been fleeing what has been described as ethnic cleansing
2013 December – With turmoil continuing in the country and rival Muslim and Christian fighters accused of killing hundreds of people, France steps up its deployment of troops to 1,600 in a bid to disarm the militias.
2014 January – Interim president Michel Djotodia resigns over criticism that he failed to stop sectarian violence. Catherine Samba-Panza takes over as interim leader.
2014 April – UN Security Council authorises a peacekeeping force of 12,000 troops.
2014 May – French and Estonian troops take charge of security at the airport in Bangui under a European Union mandate from previous French force.
2014 July – Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian "anti-balaka" vigilante compels agree to a tentative ceasefire at talks in Brazzaville.
2014 August – Muslim politician Mahamat Kamoun tasked with leading a transitional government.
2014 September – UN formally takes over and augments African Union peacekeeping mission, renamed Minusca. European Union’s French mission remains in place.
2015 January – The CAR government rejects a ceasefire deal made in Kenya inbetween two militia groups aimed at ending more than a year of clashes, telling it was not involved in the talks.
UN accuses Christian militia of ethnic cleansing.
EU-commissioned research exposes how Seleka fighters were illegally supplied with guns made in China and Iran.
2015 February – The UN says that surging violence in the Central African Republic has compelled ems of thousands to flee their homes since the beginning of the year to escape killings, rape and pillaging by militias.
2015 May – Prosecutors in France open a judicial investigation into alleged child manhandle by French soldiers.
2015 September – Communal clashes break out in Bangui after Muslim taxi-driver attacked.
2015 November – Pope visits, calls for peace inbetween Muslims, Christians.
2015 December – Fresh constitution approved in referendum. Parliamentary and presidential elections pass off peacefully, but constitutional court annuls results of parliamentary poll, citing irregularities.
2016 February – Faustin-Archange Touadera wins presidential election in the run-off.
2016 June – International Criminal Court sentences Congolese ex-rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba to eighteen years in prison for his militia’s manhandles in CAR inbetween two thousand two and 2003.
2016 July – Kidnappings by Lords Resistance Army reportedly on increase in CAR.
2017 April – Uganda withdraws its coerces from the Central African Republic where it has been fighting the Lord’s Resistance Army for five years.
2017 May – Upsurge in violence, blamed in part on the withdrawal of foreign coerces.
Several UN peacekeepers are killed in a number of attacks, including on a base and a convoy.
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A chronology of key events:
1880s – France annexes the area.
1894 – France sets up a dependency in the area called Ubangi-Chari and partitions it among commercial concessionaires.
1910 – Ubangi-Chari becomes part of the Federation of French Equatorial Africa.
1920-30 – Indigenous Africans stage violent protests against manhandles by concessionaires.
1946 – The territory is given its own assembly and representation in the French parliament; Barthelemy Boganda, founder of the pro-independence Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa (MESAN), becomes the very first Central African to be elected to the French parliament.
1957 – MESAN wins control of the territorial assembly; Boganda becomes president of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa.
Independence
1958 – The territory achieves self-government within French Equatorial Africa with Boganda as prime minister.
1960 – The Central African Republic becomes independent with David Dacko, nephew of Boganda, as president.
1962 – Dacko turns the Central African Republic into a one-party state with MESAN as the foot party.
1964 – Dacko confirmed as president in elections in which he is the foot candidate.
The Bokassa era
1965 – Dacko ousted by the army commander, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, as the country faces bankruptcy and a threatened nationwide strike.
1972 – Bokassa announces himself president for life.
1976 – Bokassa proclaims himself emperor and renames the country the "Central African Empire".
1979 – Bokassa ousted in a coup led by David Dacko and backed by French troops after widespread protests in which many school children were arrested and massacred while in detention.
1981 – Dacko deposed in a coup led by the army commander, Andre Kolingba.
1984 – Amnesty for all political party leaders announced.
1986 – Bokassa comebacks to the CAR from exile in France.
1988 – Bokassa sentenced to death for murder and embezzlement, but has his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
Ban on parties lifted
1991 – Political parties permitted to form.
Former emperor Bokassa was found guilty of murder
1992 October – Multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections held in which Kolingba came in last place, but are annulled by the supreme court on the ground of widespread irregularities.
1993 – Ange-Felix Patasse hammers Kolingba and Dacko in elections to become president, ending twelve years of military rule. Kolingba releases several thousand political prisoners, including Bokassa, before standing down as president.
1996 May – Soldiers stage a mutiny in the capital, Bangui, over unpaid wages.
1997 November – Soldiers stage more mutinies.
1997 – France commences withdrawing its compels from the republic; African peacekeepers substitute French troops.
1999 – Patasse re-elected; his nearest rival, former President Kolingba, wins 19% of the vote.
2000 December – Civil servants stage general strike over back-pay; rally organised by opposition groups who accuse President Patasse of mismanagement and corruption deteriorates into riots.
Coup bid
2001 May – At least fifty nine killed in an abortive coup attempt by former president Andre Kolingba. President Patasse suppresses the attempt with help of Libyan and Chadian troops and Congolese rebels.
2001 November – Clashes as troops attempt to arrest sacked army chief of staff General Francois Bozize, accused of involvement in May’s coup attempt. Thousands flee fighting inbetween government troops and Bozize’s coerces.
2002 February – Former Defence Minister Jean-Jacques Demafouth emerges in a Bangui court to reaction charges related to the coup attempt of May 2001.
2002 October – Libyan-backed compels help to subdue an attempt by compels loyal to dismissed army chief General Bozize to overthrow President Patasse.
Patasse ousted
2003 March – Rebel leader Francois Bozize seizes Bangui, proclaims himself president and dissolves parliament. President Ange-Felix Patasse is out of the country at the time. Within weeks a transitional government is set up.
2004 December – Fresh constitution approved in referendum.
2005 May – Francois Bozize is named the winner of presidential elections after a run-off vote.
2005 August – Flooding in the capital, Bangui, leaves up to 20,000 people homeless.
2005 June onwards – Thousands flee lawlessness in north-west CAR for southern Chad. Aid figures appeal for help to deal with the "forgotten emergency".
2006 June – UN says thirty three people have been killed in a rebel attack on an army camp in the north.
2006 August – Exiled Former President Ange-Felix Patasse is found guilty, in absentia, of fraud and sentenced to twenty years’ hard labour.
2006 October – Rebels seize Birao, a town in the north-east. President Bozize cuts brief an overseas visit.
2006 December – French fighter jets fire on rebel positions as part of support for government troops attempting to regain control of areas in the northeast.
2007 February – The rebel People’s Democratic Front, led by Abdoulaye Miskine, signs a peace accord with President Bozize in Libya and urges fighters to lay down their arms.
2007 May – The International Criminal Court says it is to probe war crimes allegedly committed in two thousand two and two thousand three following the failed coup against the Ange-Felix Patasse.
2007 September – UN Security Council authorises a peacekeeping force to protect civilians from violence spilling over from Darfur in neighbouring Sudan.
2008 January – Civil servants and teachers strike in protest over non-payment of salaries for several months.
Prime Minister Elie Dote and his cabinet resign a day before parliament was to debate a censure motility against him.
President Bozize appoints Faustin-Archange Touadera, an academic with no previous background in politics, to substitute Mr Dote.
2008 February – Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels raid CAR.
Peace process
2008 June – Two of three main rebel groups – the Union of Democratic Compels for Unity (UFDR) and the Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD) – sign peace agreement with government providing for disarmament and demobilisation of rebel fighters.
2008 September – Parliament adopts amnesty law seen as last remaining obstacle to successful conclusion of peace talks inbetween rebels and the government.
2008 December – Government-rebel peace deal envisages formation of consensus government and elections in March 2010.
2009 January – National unity government unveiled; includes leaders of the two main rebel groups. Main opposition UVNF criticises the switches to the cabinet as insufficient.
2009 February – Ugandan LRA rebels cross into CAR.
2009 March – French troops reportedly deploy in Bangui after rebels infiltrate the capital.
2009 April – Clashes inbetween government and rebels proceed. UN Security Council agrees to creation of fresh UN peacebuilding office for CAR to address ongoing insecurity.
2009 July – Fresh electoral commission established after parliament approves fresh election law.
2009 September – Ugandan army confirms that it is pursuing LRA rebels in CAR.
Ex-vice president on trial
Jean-Pierre Bemba denies committing crimes against humanity
2009 August – UN report says more than a million people have been affected by civil unrest in CAR.
2009 October/November – Former President Ange-Felix Patasse comebacks from exile, hints that he may stand for the presidency in 2010.
2010 February – Rights groups, opposition and France call for prove into claims – denied by the authorities – that rebel leader Charles Massi was tormented to death in government custody.
President Bozize says elections to be held on twenty five April; opposition rejects date, fearing vote will be rigged.
2010 April – Elections postponed. Parliament extends President Bozize’s term until polls can be held.
2010 May – UN Security Council votes to withdraw a UN force from Chad and the Central African Republic, deployed to protect displaced Chadians and refugees from Sudan’s Darfur.
2010 July – Rebels attack northern town of Birao.
2010 September – Voter registration starts for presidential, parliamentary elections due in January 2011.
2010 October – Four countries affected by LRA violence agree to form joint military force to pursue the rebels.
2010 November – Ex-DR Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba goes on trial at International Criminal Court accused of letting his troops rape and kill in Central African Republic inbetween two thousand two and 2003.
2010 December – 50th independence anniversary. Former self-styled Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa is officially rehabilitated.
2011 January – Presidential and parliamentary elections. Mr Bozize wins another term.
Rebels seize power
Fighters of the Seleka rebel alliance swept into the capital Bangui in March 2013
2011 April – Former President Ange-Felix Patasse dies aged 74.
2011 December – The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns that the Central country is in a state of chronic medical emergency because of epidemic diseases, conflict, an economic downturn and a poor health system.
2012 March – African Union deploys a military force to hunt down Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, believed to be in the Central African Republic.
2012 August – Last historic armed group – Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) – signs peace deal.
Bozize ousted
2012 November – Fresh Seleka rebel coalition rapidly overruns north and centre of country.
2013 March – Seleka rebels overrun the capital and seize power. President Bozize flees. Rebel leader Michel Djotodia suspends constitution and dissolves parliament in a coup condemned internationally.
2013 August – Coup leader Michel Djotodia is sworn in as president.
UN Security Council warns CAR poses a risk to regional stability. UN chief Ban Ki-moon says CAR has suffered a "total breakdown of law and order".
2013 September – Djotodia dissolves Seleka coalition. He is criticsed for failing to control the fighters.
2013 October – UN Security Council approves the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force. It would support African Union troops already on the ground and French troops controlling the airport.
2013 November – US casts doubt on Central African Republic official reports that Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony is among LRA figures negotiating their capitulate with the CAR authorities.
Religious conflict
Muslims have been fleeing what has been described as ethnic cleansing
2013 December – With turmoil continuing in the country and rival Muslim and Christian fighters accused of killing hundreds of people, France steps up its deployment of troops to 1,600 in a bid to disarm the militias.
2014 January – Interim president Michel Djotodia resigns over criticism that he failed to stop sectarian violence. Catherine Samba-Panza takes over as interim leader.
2014 April – UN Security Council authorises a peacekeeping force of 12,000 troops.
2014 May – French and Estonian troops take charge of security at the airport in Bangui under a European Union mandate from previous French force.
2014 July – Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian "anti-balaka" vigilante compels agree to a tentative ceasefire at talks in Brazzaville.
2014 August – Muslim politician Mahamat Kamoun tasked with leading a transitional government.
2014 September – UN formally takes over and augments African Union peacekeeping mission, renamed Minusca. European Union’s French mission remains in place.
2015 January – The CAR government rejects a ceasefire deal made in Kenya inbetween two militia groups aimed at ending more than a year of clashes, telling it was not involved in the talks.
UN accuses Christian militia of ethnic cleansing.
EU-commissioned research exposes how Seleka fighters were illegally supplied with guns made in China and Iran.
2015 February – The UN says that surging violence in the Central African Republic has compelled ems of thousands to flee their homes since the beginning of the year to escape killings, rape and pillaging by militias.
2015 May – Prosecutors in France open a judicial investigation into alleged child manhandle by French soldiers.
2015 September – Communal clashes break out in Bangui after Muslim taxi-driver attacked.
2015 November – Pope visits, calls for peace inbetween Muslims, Christians.
2015 December – Fresh constitution approved in referendum. Parliamentary and presidential elections pass off peacefully, but constitutional court annuls results of parliamentary poll, citing irregularities.
2016 February – Faustin-Archange Touadera wins presidential election in the run-off.
2016 June – International Criminal Court sentences Congolese ex-rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba to eighteen years in prison for his militia’s manhandles in CAR inbetween two thousand two and 2003.
2016 July – Kidnappings by Lords Resistance Army reportedly on increase in CAR.
2017 April – Uganda withdraws its coerces from the Central African Republic where it has been fighting the Lord’s Resistance Army for five years.
2017 May – Upsurge in violence, blamed in part on the withdrawal of foreign coerces.
Several UN peacekeepers are killed in a number of attacks, including on a base and a convoy.
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A chronology of key events:
1880s – France annexes the area.
1894 – France sets up a dependency in the area called Ubangi-Chari and partitions it among commercial concessionaires.
1910 – Ubangi-Chari becomes part of the Federation of French Equatorial Africa.
1920-30 – Indigenous Africans stage violent protests against manhandles by concessionaires.
1946 – The territory is given its own assembly and representation in the French parliament; Barthelemy Boganda, founder of the pro-independence Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa (MESAN), becomes the very first Central African to be elected to the French parliament.
1957 – MESAN wins control of the territorial assembly; Boganda becomes president of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa.
Independence
1958 – The territory achieves self-government within French Equatorial Africa with Boganda as prime minister.
1960 – The Central African Republic becomes independent with David Dacko, nephew of Boganda, as president.
1962 – Dacko turns the Central African Republic into a one-party state with MESAN as the foot party.
1964 – Dacko confirmed as president in elections in which he is the foot candidate.
The Bokassa era
1965 – Dacko ousted by the army commander, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, as the country faces bankruptcy and a threatened nationwide strike.
1972 – Bokassa proclaims himself president for life.
1976 – Bokassa proclaims himself emperor and renames the country the "Central African Empire".
1979 – Bokassa ousted in a coup led by David Dacko and backed by French troops after widespread protests in which many school children were arrested and massacred while in detention.
1981 – Dacko deposed in a coup led by the army commander, Andre Kolingba.
1984 – Amnesty for all political party leaders announced.
1986 – Bokassa comebacks to the CAR from exile in France.
1988 – Bokassa sentenced to death for murder and embezzlement, but has his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
Ban on parties lifted
1991 – Political parties permitted to form.
Former emperor Bokassa was found guilty of murder
1992 October – Multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections held in which Kolingba came in last place, but are annulled by the supreme court on the ground of widespread irregularities.
1993 – Ange-Felix Patasse hits Kolingba and Dacko in elections to become president, ending twelve years of military rule. Kolingba releases several thousand political prisoners, including Bokassa, before standing down as president.
1996 May – Soldiers stage a mutiny in the capital, Bangui, over unpaid wages.
1997 November – Soldiers stage more mutinies.
1997 – France commences withdrawing its coerces from the republic; African peacekeepers substitute French troops.
1999 – Patasse re-elected; his nearest rival, former President Kolingba, wins 19% of the vote.
2000 December – Civil servants stage general strike over back-pay; rally organised by opposition groups who accuse President Patasse of mismanagement and corruption deteriorates into riots.
Coup bid
2001 May – At least fifty nine killed in an abortive coup attempt by former president Andre Kolingba. President Patasse suppresses the attempt with help of Libyan and Chadian troops and Congolese rebels.
2001 November – Clashes as troops attempt to arrest sacked army chief of staff General Francois Bozize, accused of involvement in May’s coup attempt. Thousands flee fighting inbetween government troops and Bozize’s coerces.
2002 February – Former Defence Minister Jean-Jacques Demafouth shows up in a Bangui court to response charges related to the coup attempt of May 2001.
2002 October – Libyan-backed compels help to subdue an attempt by coerces loyal to dismissed army chief General Bozize to overthrow President Patasse.
Patasse ousted
2003 March – Rebel leader Francois Bozize seizes Bangui, proclaims himself president and dissolves parliament. President Ange-Felix Patasse is out of the country at the time. Within weeks a transitional government is set up.
2004 December – Fresh constitution approved in referendum.
2005 May – Francois Bozize is named the winner of presidential elections after a run-off vote.
2005 August – Flooding in the capital, Bangui, leaves up to 20,000 people homeless.
2005 June onwards – Thousands flee lawlessness in north-west CAR for southern Chad. Aid bods appeal for help to deal with the "forgotten emergency".
2006 June – UN says thirty three people have been killed in a rebel attack on an army camp in the north.
2006 August – Exiled Former President Ange-Felix Patasse is found guilty, in absentia, of fraud and sentenced to twenty years’ hard labour.
2006 October – Rebels seize Birao, a town in the north-east. President Bozize cuts brief an overseas visit.
2006 December – French fighter jets fire on rebel positions as part of support for government troops attempting to regain control of areas in the northeast.
2007 February – The rebel People’s Democratic Front, led by Abdoulaye Miskine, signs a peace accord with President Bozize in Libya and urges fighters to lay down their arms.
2007 May – The International Criminal Court says it is to probe war crimes allegedly committed in two thousand two and two thousand three following the failed coup against the Ange-Felix Patasse.
2007 September – UN Security Council authorises a peacekeeping force to protect civilians from violence spilling over from Darfur in neighbouring Sudan.
2008 January – Civil servants and teachers strike in protest over non-payment of salaries for several months.
Prime Minister Elie Dote and his cabinet resign a day before parliament was to debate a censure maneuverability against him.
President Bozize appoints Faustin-Archange Touadera, an academic with no previous background in politics, to substitute Mr Dote.
2008 February – Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels raid CAR.
Peace process
2008 June – Two of three main rebel groups – the Union of Democratic Compels for Unity (UFDR) and the Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD) – sign peace agreement with government providing for disarmament and demobilisation of rebel fighters.
2008 September – Parliament adopts amnesty law seen as last remaining obstacle to successful conclusion of peace talks inbetween rebels and the government.
2008 December – Government-rebel peace deal envisages formation of consensus government and elections in March 2010.
2009 January – National unity government unveiled; includes leaders of the two main rebel groups. Main opposition UVNF criticises the switches to the cabinet as insufficient.
2009 February – Ugandan LRA rebels cross into CAR.
2009 March – French troops reportedly deploy in Bangui after rebels infiltrate the capital.
2009 April – Clashes inbetween government and rebels proceed. UN Security Council agrees to creation of fresh UN peacebuilding office for CAR to address ongoing insecurity.
2009 July – Fresh electoral commission established after parliament approves fresh election law.
2009 September – Ugandan army confirms that it is pursuing LRA rebels in CAR.
Ex-vice president on trial
Jean-Pierre Bemba denies committing crimes against humanity
2009 August – UN report says more than a million people have been affected by civil unrest in CAR.
2009 October/November – Former President Ange-Felix Patasse comes back from exile, hints that he may stand for the presidency in 2010.
2010 February – Rights groups, opposition and France call for prove into claims – denied by the authorities – that rebel leader Charles Massi was tormented to death in government custody.
President Bozize says elections to be held on twenty five April; opposition rejects date, fearing vote will be rigged.
2010 April – Elections postponed. Parliament extends President Bozize’s term until polls can be held.
2010 May – UN Security Council votes to withdraw a UN force from Chad and the Central African Republic, deployed to protect displaced Chadians and refugees from Sudan’s Darfur.
2010 July – Rebels attack northern town of Birao.
2010 September – Voter registration commences for presidential, parliamentary elections due in January 2011.
2010 October – Four countries affected by LRA violence agree to form joint military force to pursue the rebels.
2010 November – Ex-DR Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba goes on trial at International Criminal Court accused of letting his troops rape and kill in Central African Republic inbetween two thousand two and 2003.
2010 December – 50th independence anniversary. Former self-styled Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa is officially rehabilitated.
2011 January – Presidential and parliamentary elections. Mr Bozize wins another term.
Rebels seize power
Fighters of the Seleka rebel alliance swept into the capital Bangui in March 2013
2011 April – Former President Ange-Felix Patasse dies aged 74.
2011 December – The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns that the Central country is in a state of chronic medical emergency because of epidemic diseases, conflict, an economic downturn and a poor health system.
2012 March – African Union deploys a military force to hunt down Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, believed to be in the Central African Republic.
2012 August – Last historic armed group – Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) – signs peace deal.
Bozize ousted
2012 November – Fresh Seleka rebel coalition rapidly overruns north and centre of country.
2013 March – Seleka rebels overrun the capital and seize power. President Bozize flees. Rebel leader Michel Djotodia suspends constitution and dissolves parliament in a coup condemned internationally.
2013 August – Coup leader Michel Djotodia is sworn in as president.
UN Security Council warns CAR poses a risk to regional stability. UN chief Ban Ki-moon says CAR has suffered a "total breakdown of law and order".
2013 September – Djotodia dissolves Seleka coalition. He is criticsed for failing to control the fighters.
2013 October – UN Security Council approves the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force. It would support African Union troops already on the ground and French troops controlling the airport.
2013 November – US casts doubt on Central African Republic official reports that Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony is among LRA figures negotiating their capitulate with the CAR authorities.
Religious conflict
Muslims have been fleeing what has been described as ethnic cleansing
2013 December – With turmoil continuing in the country and rival Muslim and Christian fighters accused of killing hundreds of people, France steps up its deployment of troops to 1,600 in a bid to disarm the militias.
2014 January – Interim president Michel Djotodia resigns over criticism that he failed to stop sectarian violence. Catherine Samba-Panza takes over as interim leader.
2014 April – UN Security Council authorises a peacekeeping force of 12,000 troops.
2014 May – French and Estonian troops take charge of security at the airport in Bangui under a European Union mandate from previous French force.
2014 July – Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian "anti-balaka" vigilante coerces agree to a tentative ceasefire at talks in Brazzaville.
2014 August – Muslim politician Mahamat Kamoun tasked with leading a transitional government.
2014 September – UN formally takes over and augments African Union peacekeeping mission, renamed Minusca. European Union’s French mission remains in place.
2015 January – The CAR government rejects a ceasefire deal made in Kenya inbetween two militia groups aimed at ending more than a year of clashes, telling it was not involved in the talks.
UN accuses Christian militia of ethnic cleansing.
EU-commissioned research exposes how Seleka fighters were illegally supplied with guns made in China and Iran.
2015 February – The UN says that surging violence in the Central African Republic has coerced ems of thousands to flee their homes since the beginning of the year to escape killings, rape and pillaging by militias.
2015 May – Prosecutors in France open a judicial investigation into alleged child manhandle by French soldiers.
2015 September – Communal clashes break out in Bangui after Muslim taxi-driver attacked.
2015 November – Pope visits, calls for peace inbetween Muslims, Christians.
2015 December – Fresh constitution approved in referendum. Parliamentary and presidential elections pass off peacefully, but constitutional court annuls results of parliamentary poll, citing irregularities.
2016 February – Faustin-Archange Touadera wins presidential election in the run-off.
2016 June – International Criminal Court sentences Congolese ex-rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba to eighteen years in prison for his militia’s manhandles in CAR inbetween two thousand two and 2003.
2016 July – Kidnappings by Lords Resistance Army reportedly on increase in CAR.
2017 April – Uganda withdraws its compels from the Central African Republic where it has been fighting the Lord’s Resistance Army for five years.
2017 May – Upsurge in violence, blamed in part on the withdrawal of foreign compels.
Several UN peacekeepers are killed in a number of attacks, including on a base and a convoy.