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| 1997, July 6 |
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| The Cambodian second premier Hun Sen ousted the first premier, Prince Norodom Ranariddeh, from power after two days of fighting in the capital, Phnom Penh. | 1 |
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| 1998, April 15 |
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| Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tyrannical leader of the late-1970s, died. His infamous reign sponsored the extermination of between one and two million Cambodian citizens who were either massacred or worked to death in forced labor camps. The Marxist extremist wiped out nearly every member of the professional–technical class in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. | 2 |
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| July 26 |
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| Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won a victory in parliamentary elections. Hun Sen agreed to form a coalition government that would divide power as he became the “sole premier” and Ranariddh became the president of the National Assembly. | 3 |
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| Dec. 25 |
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| The last Khmer Rouge troops surrendered; all the group's leaders were captured by March 1999, including Ta Mok and Kang Kech Iev, who ran the infamous Tuol Sleng prison. | 4 |
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