Annex 1
Timeline
| Timeline | |
|---|---|
| 1958 | Self-government within French Equatorial Africa |
| 1960 | Independence of the CAR with David Dacko as president |
| 1962 | The CAR becomes a one-party state with Dacko’s Mouvement d’Évolution Sociale de l’Afrique Noire (MESAN) as the only party |
| 1965 | Dacko ousted by army commander Jean-Bédel Bokassa |
| 1979 | Bokassa ousted by Dacko |
| 1981 | Dacko deposed in a coup by army commander André Kolingba |
| 1984 | Amnesty for all political party leaders declared |
| 1986 | Elections with Kolingba as unopposed winner |
| 1991 | Ban on political parties lifted by Kolingba under national and international pressure |
| 1992 | Multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections, later annulled by the supreme court on the grounds of widespread irregularities |
| 1993 | Ange-Félix Patassé elected president in elections declared free and fair |
| 1996 – 1997 | National army soldiers stage mutinies and Parliament adopts amnesty laws in May 1996 and March 1997 |
| 1999 | Patassé re-elected president |
| 2001 | Coup attempt by Kolingba and army chief of staff François Bozizé |
| 2002 | Coup attempt by Bozizé, subdued with help of Libyan forces |
| 2003 | Bozizé seizes Bangui, declares himself president and dissolves Parliament |
| 2004 | New Constitution approved |
| 2005 | Bozizé declared winner of fraudulent presidential elections |
| 2007 February | Abdoulaye Miskine’s rebel group FDPC signs peace accord with President Bozizé in Syrte, Libya |
| 2008 June | Two of three main rebel groups (UFDR and APRD) sign peace accord which includes DDR provisions with CAR government in Libreville, Gabon |
| 2008 September | Parliament adopts amnesty law to further peace talks between rebels and government |
| 2008 December | Government-rebel peace deal with provision of consensus government and elections in March 2010 |
| 2009 January | National unity government with rebel representatives nominated |
| 2009 February | Ugandan LRA rebels cross into the CAR |
| 2011 January | Presidential and parliamentary elections, Bozizé declared winner |
| 2012 August | Rebel group CPJP finally signs the 2008 Libreville peace agreement |
| 2012 August | UFDR and break-away CPJP factions form the Séléka rebel alliance |
| 2013 January | Ceasefire Agreement between Séléka rebels and government in Libreville, Gabon, lasts for a few days only (Government says Séléka responsible) |
| 2013 March | Séléka rebels overrun the capital and seize power, Bozizé flees |
| 2013 May | Diamond trading ban imposed by the Kimberley Process |
| 2013 August | Séléka leader Michel Djotodia sworn in as president |
| 2013 September | Djotodia dissolves Séléka alliance |
| 2014 January | Djotodia forced to resign over criticism that he failed to stop sectarian violence, Samba-Panza takes over as interim president |
| 2014 January | 7 key political parties form the AFDT alliance |
| 2014 July | Séléka and Anti-balaka forces agree to a tentative ceasefire at talks in Brazzaville |
| 2014 August | Prime Minister Mahamat Kamoun tasked with leading the new transitional government |
| 2014 September | UN formally establishes their peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA) |
| 2015 January | Interim government rejects ceasefire deal signed in Nairobi by Bozizé and Djotodia |
| 2015 Jan-March | Grassroots consultations |
| 2015 May | Forum de Bangui |