APRIL
– 13: Authorities say Mubarak is being held in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh.
– 16: A court dissolves Mubarak’s National Democratic Party.
MAY
– 7: Fifteen die and 200 injured as Muslims and Christians clash in Cairo.
JUNE
– 6: A political party formed by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood is declared
legal.
– 29: More than 1,000 hurt as protesters and police clash in Tahrir Square.
JULY
– 8: Thousands start a Tahrir sit-in to criticise the military’s slow pace of
reform.
– 29: Hundreds of thousands of Islamists pack Tahrir in the biggest gathering
since Mubarak’s fall.
AUGUST
– 3: Trial begins of Mubarak, his two sons, former interior minister Habib
al-Adly and six police commanders.
OCTOBER
– 9: Cairo clashes leave 25 people dead, mainly Coptic Christians.
NOVEMBER
– 19: Start of week-long clashes between police and antimilitary demonstrators
that leave 42 dead.
– 28-29: Egypt holds its first post-revolt parliamentary election. Islamist
parties win about three-quarters of seats.
JANUARY, 2012
– 11: The US State Department’s number two sits down with Muslim Brotherhood
party leaders.
FEBRUARY
– 1: Riots kill 74 people after a Port Said football match.
APRIL
– 10: A court suspends the Islamist-dominated commission tasked with drafting
a new constitution amid a boycott by liberals, moderate Muslims and the
Coptic church.
– 17: The electoral commission bars 10 candidates from standing for president,
ruling out two Islamists and Mubarak’s ex-spy chief.
MAY
– 2: Thugs attack a protest near the defence ministry, leaving at least 20
dead, including supporters of Salafist politician Hazem Abu Ismail.
– 23-24: Egypt holds its first free presidential election.
– 28: Officials announce a run-off vote between Brotherhood candidate Mohammed
Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq, who served briefly as Mubarak’s last premier.
– 30: Mubarak’s sons, already on trial for corruption with their father, face
a new separate case for alleged stock market fraud.
– 31: State of emergency imposed in 1981 ends.
JUNE
– 2: Mubarak and Adly sentenced to life in prison in the murder case, while
the six police commanders are acquitted. Original corruption charges against
Mubarak’s sons dropped. A lawyer for Mubarak says he will appeal. Protesters
stage angry rallies.
– 3: State prosecutor says to appeal Mubarak verdicts.
– 11: Mubarak’s health deteriorates: prison sources say he is defibrillated
twice.
– 14: Egypt’s top court annuls the Islamist-led house, paving the way for the
military to assume parliament’s powers, while allowing Shafiq to stand in
the election.
– 19: Mubarak suffers stroke and undergoes defibrillation in prison. He is
transferred to military hospital from prison.
Source: AFP
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