CAIRO, June 30, 2012 (AFP)
CAIRO, June 30, 2012 (AFP)
Key events in Egypt since the start of the Arab Spring:
JANUARY, 2011
– 25: Egypt protests erupt after a revolt topples Tunisia’s ruler.
FEBRUARY
– 11: President Hosni Mubarak resigns and hands power to the army led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi. About 850 people die in the unrest.
– 12: Promising a peaceful transition to democracy, the army suspends the constitution and dissolves parliament.
MARCH
– 19: Egyptians approve a new constitution, with 77.2 percent voting yes.
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 anti-military 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.
– 23-24: Egypt holds its first free presidential election.
– 28: Officials announce a run-off vote between Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, 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. Protesters stage angry rallies.
– 3: State prosecutor says to appeal Mubarak verdicts.
– 11: Mubarak’s health deteriorates.
– 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.
– 16-17: Second round of presidential election.
– 20: Mubarak in a coma on life support after suffering a stroke in prison, medical and military sources say. The official MENA news agency reported earlier that he was “clinically dead.”
– 24: Morsi declared winner of the election and vows to be president to all Egyptians, appealing for national unity.
– 30: President Morsi sworn in.
