| 01/28 | Democracy Day. |
| 04/06/94 | President Juvenal Habyarimana is killed in a plane crash, sparking nationwide fighting. |
| 04/28/97 | Rebels murder 17 schoolgirls and a Belgian nun. |
| 06/01/97 | Perhaps 250,000 Hutu Rwandan refugees are feared dead in a slaughter by Congo President Laurent Kabila's rebel troops in eastern Congo. |
| 06/18/97 | Two U.N. World Food Program employees are killed by gunmen. |
| 07/01 | Anniversary of Independence. |
| 07/04/94 | Rwandan rebels capture the capital of Kigali and the last major government-held southern town of Butare. |
| 07/05 | National Peace and Unity Day. |
| 07/15/94 | A tidal wave of Rwandan refugees pours into neighboring Zaire. |
| 07/18/94 | The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) claims it has won Rwanda's civil war. |
| 07/19/94 | Pasteur Bizimungu is sworn in as president at a ceremony at the parliament building in the capital of Kigali. Rebel commander Major General Paul Kagame is named vice president and defense minister. |
| 08/12/94 | Thousands of Rwandan refugees begin moving toward Zaire from southwest Rwanda. |
| 10/26 | Armed Forces Day. |
| 11/01/96 | Rwanda war crimes trial resumes in Arusha, Tanzania. |
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