1788.-1791.

The Habsburg-Turkish war, into which the Monarchy was drifted as a Russia's ally. The Monarchy amassed 245,000 men and 1,150 cannons. The Austrian army got stuck in the five-months siege of Bosanska Dubica fortress, which nowadays is the border between Croatia and Bosnia. The Viennese Court, which entered the war with a plan to get back what was lost in 1739., despite isolated successes, like the penetration in the major part of Bosnia, was out of luck again. The only territorial gain was the inclusion of the parts of present-day Lika and Kordun into Croatia.

1791.-1815.

The "boundaries redrawing" period in and around Bosnia under the influence of the French revolution and the Napoleonic Empire. After short-lived "Illyrian provincies", the restoration of the Austrian administration in the continental Croatia and Dalmatia. East to Bosnia, the uprising against Ottoman Empire broke out in Serbia, in which the Serbian forces, after initial successes (the Turkish army faced a defeat on several occasions) and general national liberation war in which the local Muslim population was expelled mostly into Bosnia, have succumbed to decay and disintegration. However, by Sultan's recognition of autonomy of Smederevo Sanjak in 1815., the foundations of the Serbian state have been laid.

1815.-1878.

The general decline of the Ottoman authority in Bosnia-Herzegovina. After the reorganization of the army (the destruction of the yannissary corps), signs of revolt appear among Muslim aristocracy in Bosnia (traditionally connected to this military unit), as well as the uprising of the local captains in command (the most spectacular being the northern-Bosnia based unsuccessful rebellion of captain Husein, who has with his army of 25,000 men tried to extort the foundation of Bosnian autonomy under the rule of the local Muslim nobility, as well as the discontinuance of social reforms). In the period of several decades the Ottoman Empire has undertaken a number of reforms with the aim to make real religious freedom, which provoked the resistance of Bosnian Muslim aristocracy and even greater antagonism and separation of Christian and Muslim populations. However, due to general economic decline, the pressures from Muslim traditionalists, badly organized administration, as well as growing national self-confidence, especially of Christian inhabitants--the Ottoman 'perestroika' has, like her Soviet heiress, only sped up the collapse from within a rotten system.

1818.-1857.

Ivan Frano Jukic, the Bosnian Franciscan, a writer, a follower of the Croatian national revival and a sufferer in Turkish gaols.

1822.-1905.

Grga Martic, the Bosnian Franciscan, a propagator of education and schooling, a politician, a fighter for union of Bosnia-Herzegovina with Croatia, one of Croatian revivalists, and a poet. His verses:"Woe to a home without fraternal bliss, woe to Bosnia that gives Croatia a miss", are especially known.

1823.-1896.

Ante Starcevic, a scrivener at scriptorium of the Zagrebian lawyer Schram, the first modern translator of the Holy Scriptures and Anacreon, a philosophical and political writer, a public representative, a co-founder of the Party of Rigts, the most celebrated Croatian ideologue and politician, the creator of the Croatian national idea and nationhood, an intercessor for the universal civic rights. The father of the homeland. The Party of Rights would become the major political force among BH Croats during the Austrian administration in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1879.-1918.).

1875.

In lower Herzegovina, in the Gabela and Hrasno district, under the leadership of don Ivan Music, Croats have, ignited by overtaxing, rebelled against Turkish authorities on June the 19th. Very soon after, in east Herzegovina, the Serbs rebelled too, and after that the rebellion of the whole Christian population of Bosnia-Herzegovina followed. The Turkish authorities couldn't put down the uprising so that Serbia and Montenegro (1876.), and Russia (1877.) were sucked into the war--the fighting having ended at 1878. During the war, more than 150,000 people took refuge in Croatia.

Austro-Hungarian Rule: Tutorship and Westernization (1878 - 1918)
 
1878.

After the Russo-Turkish war, the Berlin Congress has been held, ending with the decision that Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was formally still under the Turkish suzerainty, would be occupied by Austria-Hungary and subdued to its jurisdiction. The Austrian-Hungarian units, numbering 82,000 men, met the resistance of weakly organized, predominantly Muslim militia of 40,000 soldiers (along with a number of associated Orthodox chieftains) led by Sarayevo's agitator Hadzi Lojo. The main Austrian forces, so called "occupying units" of 9,400 soldiers under the command of a Croat, baron Josip Filipovic, have quickly broken in through northern Bosnia, conquering Banja Luka, Maglaj and Jajce. After the battle at Vitez in central Bosnia, in which they have decisively defeated the Bosnian Muslim army, Filipovic's forces have taken Sarajevo (breaking the severe resistance of local Muslim population ), and advancing further through Herzegovina and NoviPazar Sanjak have occupied the entire Bosnia-Herzegovina. The conquest has lasted for less than three months, during which the overall losses of the Austrian units amounted to 946 dead and 3980 wounded soldiers. Considering the bad condition of the roads, in accordance with one of the contemporaries it can be concluded that Austria has occupied Bosnia-Herzegovina in a time soldiers needed to tramp it from end to end.