- 1872
– Gustav Moynier proposed a permanent court in response to the crimes committed during the Franco-Prussian WarFootnote 1
- 1919
– Calls for an ad hoc international court at the Treaty of Versailles
- 1945
– Establishment of the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals
- 1948
– Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and the International Law Commission invited to ‘study the desirability and possibility of establishing an international judicial organ for the trial of persons charged with genocide’
- 1989
– United Nations General Assembly invited the International Law Commission to resume work on a statute for an international criminal court
- 1990s
– Establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- 1994
– Draft statute for an international criminal court to the United Nations General Assembly
- 1995
– Establishment and meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court
- 1996–1998
– Establishment and meetings of the Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of the ICC
- 17 July 1998
– 120 states adopted the Rome StatuteFootnote 2
- 1 July 2002
– Rome Statute entry into force after ratification by sixty countriesFootnote 3
- June 2004
– Investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo authorised, ICC-01/04
- July 2004
– Investigation in Uganda authorised, ICC-02/04
- June 2005
– Investigation in Darfur, Sudan authorised, ICC-02/05
- May 2007
– Investigation in Central African Republic authorised, ICC-01/05
- 10 June 2008
– Warrant of Arrest in the Case of the Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo
- 4 March 2009
– Public Redacted Version – Decision on the Prosecution’s Application for a Warrant of Arrest against Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir
- 15 June 2009
– Decision Pursuant to Article 67(7)(a) and (b) of the Rome Statute on the Charges of the Prosecutor against Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo
- March 2010
– Investigation in Kenya authorised, ICC-01/09
- 18 November 2010
– Preliminary Examination of Nigeria announced
- March 2011
– Investigation in Libya authorised, ICC-01/11
- 3 October 2011
– Investigation in Côte d’Ivoire authorised, ICC-02/11
- 2 March 2012
– Decision on the Prosecutor’s Application Pursuant to Article 58 for a Warrant of Arrest against Simone Gbagbo
- 14 March 2012
– Thomas Lubanga Dylio convicted, ICC-01/04-01/06
- January 2013
– Investigation in Mali authorised, ICC-01/12
- 7 March 2014
– Germain Katanga convicted, ICC-01/04-01/07
- September 2014
– Investigation in Central African Republic II authorised, ICC-01/14
- 11 December 2014
– Decision on Côte d’Ivoire’s Challenge to the Admissibility of the Case against Simone Gbagbo
- 3 March 2015
– Judgment Decision in the case of the Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dylio
- 27 January 2016
– Investigation in Georgia authorised, ICC-01/15
- 21 March 2016
– Judgment Decision in the case of the Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo. Bemba convicted, ICC-01/05-01/08
- 21 June 2016
– Sentencing Decision in the case of the Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo
- 27 September 2016
– Judgment and Sentencing Decision in the case of the Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi
- 4 January 2017
– Second Decision to the Defence’s Challenge to the Jurisdiction of the Court in Respect of Counts 6 and 9 in the case of the Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda
- 17 August 2017
– Reparations Order in the case of the Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi
- 27 September 2017
– Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi convicted, ICC-01/12-01/15
- 25 October 2017
– Investigation in Burundi authorised, ICC-01/17
- 22 May 2018
– Decision on the Prosecutor’s Application for the Issuance of a Warrant of Arrest for Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud
- 8 June 2018
– Jean Pierre Bemba Gombo acquitted, ICC-01/05-01/08
- 12 April 2019
– Decision Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorisation of an Investigation into the Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- 6 May 2019
– In the Appeal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan against the Decision of Pre-Trial Chamber II entitled ‘Decision under Article 87(7) of the Rome Statute on the Non-Compliance by Jordan with the Request by the Court of Arrest and Surrender o[f] Omar Al-Bashir’ of 11 December 2017
- 8 July 2019
– Judgment in the case of the Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda. Ntaganda convicted, ICC-01/04-02/06
- 14 November 2019
– Investigation in Bangladesh and Myanmar authorised, ICC-01/19
- 14 November 2019
– Decision Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorisation of an Investigation into the Situation in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar
- 19 February 2020
– Preliminary Examination of Venezuela II announced
- 5 March 2020
– Investigation in Afghanistan authorised, ICC-02/17
- 1 June 2020
– Decision on the Prosecutor’s Request to Amend the Charges against Alfred Yekatom
- 18 January 2021
– Decision Establishing the Principles of Victims’ Representation during the Confirmation of Charges Hearing
- 4 February 2021
– Judgment in the case of the Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen. Ongwen convicted, ICC-02/04-01/15
- 3 March 2021
– Investigation in State of Palestine authorised, ICC-01/18
- 6 May 2021
– Sentencing Decision in the Case of the Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen
- 9 July 2021
– Decision on the Confirmation of Charges against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (‘Ali Kushayb’)
- 15 September 2021
– Investigation in Republic of the Philippines authorised, ICC-01/21
- 3 November 2021
– Investigation in Venezuela I authorised, ICC-02/18
- 2 March 2022
– Investigation in Ukraine authorised, ICC-01/22
1 Coalition of the ICC, ‘ICC History – The Road to Rome’ (Web page) available at www.coalitionfortheicc.org/icc-history,
2 The ICC, ‘The ICC at a Glance’, available at www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/ICCAtAGlanceEng.pdf