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| 1985, Nov. 11 |
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| Morocco formally withdrew from the Organization of African Unity, which had consistently backed the Polisario movement. | 1 |
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| 1986, Sept. 30 |
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| Appointment of Azzedine Laraki as prime minister. | 2 |
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| 1991, Sept. 6 |
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| The UN helped to arrange the first cease-fire in the 15-year struggle between Morocco and the Polisario. Preparations commenced for a referendum on self-determination for Western Sahara (the former Spanish Sahara), but bickering over the terms of the referendum frustrated all attempts to hold it over the next two years. | 3 |
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| 1992, Aug. 11 |
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| Appointment of veteran politician Muhammad Karim Lamrani as prime minister. | 4 |
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| 1993, June 25 |
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| The ruling coalition won a majority of parliamentary seats (116 of 222) in national elections. | 5 |
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| 1999, July 23 |
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| King Hassan II, who had reigned since 1961, died and was succeeded by his son Sidi Muhammad VI. | 6 |
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| 2000, March 12 |
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| Some 500,000 Islamic fundamentalists protested in Casablanca, and nearly 300,000 women's rights advocates rallied in the capital city of Rabat when a government plan was presented to grant more rights to women. The proposed reforms would have banned polygamy, raised the legal marriage age from 14 to 18 years, and reserved one-third of Morocco's parliamentary seats for female candidates. The plan, set forth by King Muhammad VI, also included reforms in divorce legislation and assertions of greater property rights for women. A council of Islamic scholars was arranged to solve the problem through compromise. | 7 |
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