At a congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Nasser dies of a sudden heart attack and is succeeded as Egypt's president by Anwar el-Sadat

Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

Anwar el-Sadat, the Egyptian president, travels to Jerusalem to propose a peace plan to the Israelis

Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin sign an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty at Camp David in the USA

Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat share the Nobel Peace Prize

Muslim terrorists assassinate Anwar el-Sadat, in response to his peace agreement with Israel

Sadat is peacefully succeeded in Egypt by his vice-president, Hosni Mubarak

On the eve of the new millennium twenty-one Coptic Christians are murdered by Muslims in the Egyptian village of Kosheh

The Alexandria National Museum, with a rich collection telling the story of Alexandria and Egypt, is opened by Hosni Mubarak

Inspired by the example of Tunisia, a day of revolt is organized in Egypt, in protest against police methods and to coincide with National Police Day

Recognizing the use made by demonstrators of Facebook and Twitter, the Egyptian government shuts down internet access for most of the country

On what becomes known as the 'Friday of Anger' hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Egypt after Friday prayers, a developing tradition in the Arab Spring

After nearly three weeks of escalating violence in Egypt, President Mubarak announces his resignation

A court in Cairo finds Hosni Mubarak guilty of damaging the national economy by severing internet connections on January 26 and fines him about US $34 million

President Saleh of Yemen is flown to Egypt for medical treatment, after being wounded on the previous day by an explosion in the government compound in Sana'a

Hosni Mubarak appears in court on a hospital bed on the first day of his trial on the capital charge of premeditated killing of peaceful protesters

About 80 people are killed and more than 1000 injured in a clash between fans at a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said

An Egyptian court sentences former president Hosni Mubarak to life imprisonment

Mohamed Morsi, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, becomes Egypt's first democratically elected president

Mohamed Morsi issues a declaration giving himself virtually unlimited powers, leading to violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square

An excerpt of an anti-Islamic film made in the USA, Innocence of Muslims, is broadcast in Egypt on a Muslim TV channel

Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries

US embassies in Yemen and Egypt are attacked, as the protests against Innocence of Muslims spread

Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood