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  • Mar 25

    Key events in Egypt since the fall of Hosni Mubarak

    February 11: After daily mass protests and deaths in clashes with security
    forces and regime loyalists, Mubarak steps down and leaves Cairo for Sharm
    el-Sheikh on the Red Sea.

    13: The army suspends the constitution and says it will rule Egypt
    for six months, at which point elections will take place.

    March 11: Four top members of the Mubarak regime jailed on charges of ordering
    security forces to shoot protesters during the revolution, which left 846
    people dead and 6,000 injured.

    15: The army disbands the former regime's hated security police.

    19: Voters approve the proposed new constitution, with 77.2 per cent voting "yes."

    30: The military regime announces a parliamentary election for September, to
    be followed by a presidential ballot one or two months later.

    April 13: Authorities say Mubarak and his two sons have been detained for 15
    days as part of an inquiry into the January-February events. The former
    president is reported to have suffered heart problems during questioning.

    16: The Higher Administrative Court dissolves Mubarak's National Democratic
    Party and orders the seizure of its assets.

    May 7: Fifteen die and 200 injured as Muslims and Christians clash in Cairo.

    17: Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of the ex-president, freed after remitting her
    assets to the state.

    June 6: The Muslim Brotherhood's new political party is declared legal.

    22: The Muslim Brotherhood joins forces with 17 other parties, including
    liberal and secular groups.

    28: A Cairo court orders the dissolution of local councils whose
    representatives were elected under Mubarak's regime.

    29: 1,036 injured in clashes between protesters and anti-riot police in
    Cairo's Tahrir Square.

    July 5: A former minister sentenced in absentia to five years in jail and
    three others acquitted in corruption trials.

    7: The public prosecutor refers 25 people to trial for murder during one of
    the most bloody days of the uprising.

    13: The ruling military council seeks to placate protesters by announcing the
    sacking of hundreds of police officers and a delay of parliamentary
    elections.

    15: Thousands rally across Egypt, capping a week of nationwide sit-ins to
    demand political change as anger grows with the military rulers.

    17: Mubarak in a coma, state television cites his lawyer as saying, a report
    denied by the health ministry.

    19: Mubarak has an abnormal heart rhythm and sometimes falls unconscious, the
    official MENA news agency reports.

    21: A sweeping cabinet reshuffle fails to appease protesters as it retains
    several ministers they want sacked.

    23: Fierce clashes between protesters angry at the military's handling of the
    transition from Mubarak's regime and army loyalists.

    25: A Cairo court decides to merge the trials of Mubarak and ex-interior
    minister Habib al-Adly as former premier Ahmed Nazif is charged with
    corruption.

    27: Mubarak refusing food and has become extremely weak, state media report.

    29: Hundreds of thousands of Islamists pack Cairo's Tahrir Square, in the
    biggest gathering since Mubarak's fall.

    31: Protesters camped out in Tahrir Square say they will suspend their sit-in
    during Ramadan, which starts on Monday.