A look at events related to the Kosovo conflict:

1968 -- First pro-independence demonstrations by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

1974 -- New Yugoslav constitution declares Kosovo an autonomous province within Serbia.

1980 -- Yugoslav leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito dies.

1981 -- Ethnic Albanians hold street demonstrations demanding Kosovo be declared a republic, dozens injured.

1989 -- Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic strips Kosovo of autonomy. More than 20 killed in protests.

1990 -- Yugoslavia sends in troops and Serbia dissolves Kosovo's government.

1991 -- Separatists proclaim Kosovo a republic, which is recognized by neighboring Albania.

1992 -- Ibrahim Rugova, advocate of a peaceful path to independence, elected president of separatist republic.

1996 -- Pro-independence Kosovo Liberation Army emerges, claims responsibility for bombing police targets.

Feb. 28, 1998 -- Militant Kosovo Albanians kill two Serb policemen, leading to police reprisals by Milosevic, now the Yugoslav president.

March 1998 -- Dozens killed in Serb police action against suspected Albanian separatists.

April 1998 -- 95 percent of Serbs reject international mediation on Kosovo in referendum. International sanctions imposed against Yugoslavia.

May 1998 -- Milosevic and Rugova hold talks for first time, but Albanian side boycotts further meetings.

July and August 1998 -- KLA seizes control of 40 percent of Kosovo before being routed in Serb offensive.

September 1998 -- Serb forces attack central Kosovo, where 22 Albanians are found massacred. U.N. Security Council adopts resolution calling for immediate cease-fire.

October 1998 -- NATO allies authorize airstrikes against Serb military targets, Milosevic agrees to withdraw troops and allows 2,000 unarmed monitors to verify compliance.

October-December 1998 -- Scattered daily violence undermines fragile truce.

Jan. 15, 1999 -- 45 ethnic Albanians slain outside Racak, spurring international peace efforts.

Feb. 6-17 -- First round of talks between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs in Rambouillet, France.

February-March 1999 -- Yugoslav forces sweep through Macedonian border region, digging in opposite NATO forces. Rebels launch several attacks on Serbs.

March 18 -- Kosovo Albanians sign peace deal calling for interim autonomy and 28,000 NATO troops to implement it. Serb delegation refuses and talks are suspended.

March 22 -- U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke warns Milosevic of airstrikes unless he signs peace agreement. Milosevic refuses.

March 23 -- NATO authorizes airstrikes. Yugoslavia declares state of emergency -- its first since World War II.

March 24--NATO airstrikes begin.

March 28 -- Thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, flood into Albania and Macedonia from Kosovo, telling of door-to-door raids, looting and burning by Serb forces.

April 1 -- Three captured U.S. soldiers are shown on Serbian television with dirt or abrasions on their faces. Tens of thousands of refugees, some packed shoulder to shoulder into train cars, pour out of Kosovo.

April 14 -- Yugoslavia says one NATO strike hit a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees under Serb police escort.

April 15 -- NATO acknowledges mistakenly bombing a refugee convoy. Yugoslav officials said 75 people died and more than two dozen were hurt.

April 26 -- An Apache helicopter crashes while on a training mission near Albania's capital, Tirana, and the two pilots are evacuated.

April 29 -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson arrives in Belgrade on a mission to win freedom for three U.S. POWs held by Yugoslavia.

May 2 -- Yugoslav authorities hand over soldiers to Jackson.

May 5 -- Rugova, thought to be under house arrest, flies out of Yugoslavia to Rome. An Apache helicopter crashes during a training mission in Albania, killing two U.S. pilots.

May 6 -- Russia and major Western powers draft a joint plan to end the conflict, including the deployment of an international force to keep the peace after the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces.

May 7 -- NATO mistakenly bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists. NATO expresses "deep regret" for the accident.

May 13 -- 87 ethnic Albanians are killed and more than 100 are injured, Yugoslavia says, in a NATO bombing of a Kosovo village, Korisa. NATO says Korisa is a Serb military command post, and suggests Serb forces trapped the refugees next to the target as human shields.

May 20 -- NATO airstrikes damage the Swiss ambassador's residence during a reception, along with the Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian and Hungarian ambassadors' residences. Serbian media say damage also is reported at the Libyan Embassy and the Israeli diplomatic mission.

May 21 -- A Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla is killed and at least 15 are injured in a mistaken attack on a stronghold of the rebel force. NATO says planners thought the position was held by the Yugoslav army, which had lost it to the KLA more than a month earlier.

June 2 -- Russian and European negotiators in Germany agree to a Kosovo peace plan that could bring a halt to the NATO airstrikes and fly to Belgrade right away with the proposal.

June 3 -- Yugoslavia's government accepts a Western-backed peace plan to resolve the Kosovo crisis and allow the return of more than 850,000 ethnic Albanians to the province in southern Serbia. Earlier, Serb lawmakers in Belgrade overwhelmingly approve the peace plan.