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Voters in Croatia elect the members of the Sabor. The ruling Croatian Democratic Union and its coalition win the most seats, but fail to obtain a majority.
2024-04-17

Three people are killed and 11 others are injured when a freight train and a passenger train collide in Novska, Croatia.
2022-09-9

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announces a slight easing of restrictions beginning on February 16, citing the stable number of new cases in the past few weeks. Foreign language schools, casinos, gyms and betting shops can reopen and restaurants and bars can also sell coffee to go.
2021-02-11

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announces that Croatia will suspend weddings, close cafés and restaurants, and restrict outdoor and public gatherings to 25 people and private gatherings to 10 people between November 28 and December 21 as the country reports a record 4,009 new cases in the past 24 hours.
2020-11-26

Voters in Croatia go to the polls for a parliamentary election with the conservative Croatian Democratic Union taking an early lead.
2016-09-11

Croatian MPs vote to dissolve the Parliament, setting the stage for snap election, which are expected to take place in early September. This comes as Croatia is facing an escalating political crisis following the last election in November 2015.
2016-06-20

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in a majority vote, ordered an "indefinite" halt in the war crimes trial of Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadžić, who is terminally ill with brain cancer and declared "unfit to stand trial." Hadžić was charged with 14 war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1991–95 war in Croatia.
2016-04-6

Hungary's parliament passes a law allowing the Hungarian military to help handle the migrant crisis at its borders with Serbia and Croatia, including the right to use non-lethal force such as rubber bullets, pyrotechnical devices, tear gas grenades or net guns.
2015-09-21

Croatia’s opposition coalition led by the Croatian Democratic Union wins six out of twelve seats in the country’s first ever vote for the European Parliament, while the ruling coalition led by the Social Democratic Party manages to take five seats.
2013-04-15

Croatian military leaders Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač were convicted of war crimes
2011-04-15