CHRONOLOGY: One year after Mubarak's ouster Egypt remains divided

Feb 11, 2012, 9:48 GMT

Cairo - Egyptians were on Saturday marking one year since president Hosny Mubarak stepped down following 18 days of mass protests. The following is a list of major events since February 11, 2011:

February 11, 2001 - Mubarak steps down as president after nearly 30 years in power. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, headed by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, takes over.

February 14 - The military rulers dissolve parliament and suspend the constitution. The junta says it will remain in power for six months or until elections are held.

March 3 - Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, appointed by Mubarak, resigns and the military tasks former transport minister Essam Sharaf with forming an interim government.

March 9 - The army forcibly clears protesters from Tahrir Square in Cairo. More than a dozen female protesters, detained during the rally by the military, are beaten up and forced to undergo virginity tests.

March 19 - More than 70 per cent of Egyptians vote for constitutional reforms in a referendum.

April 16 - The Supreme Administrative Court disbands Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which was in power for more than three decades.

August 3 - Mubarak makes his first public appearance since stepping down to face trial on charges of ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters and corruption. His sons, Alaa and Gamal, and former interior minister, Habib al-Adli, are tried alongside him. All plead not guilty.

September 10 - The military rulers prolong the enforcement of the emergency law, following an attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo.

October 9 - Twenty-seven people are killed and more than 300 injured when protesters, mainly Coptic Christians, clash with the army in central Cairo.

October 30 - Mubarak's trial is adjourned to December 28, pending a decision on a lawsuit requesting the court panel be replaced because of alleged bias.

November 19 - Violent clashes erupt between police and protesters in Tahrir Square after security forces clamp down on activists in the square.

November 21 - The government resigns under public pressure over a deadly police crackdown on protesters in central Cairo.

November 22 - A mass protest is held in Tahrir Square despite assurances from the military rulers that they will transfer power to an elected civilian administration by July.

November 28 - Voters turn out in huge numbers for what is described as Egypt's first-ever free parliamentary elections. Islamists make massive gains in the three-stage polls.

December 7 - A new interim government led by Kamal al-Ganzouri, a former premier under Mubarak, is sworn in.

January 23, 2012 - Egyptian parliament holds its first session, and a senior member of the influential Muslim Brotherhood, Saad al-Katatni, is elected parliament speaker.

January 24 - Tantawi announces plans to lift the 30-year-old emergency law, except for cases involving thuggery.

February 1 - Seventy-four people are killed in Egypt's worst-ever football disaster following a local match in the coastal city of Port Said. The incident triggers clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo and the eastern city of Suez, killing 15 people.

February 5: Egyptian authorities refer 43 workers at non-governmental organizations to a criminal trial on charges of operating without licences and receiving illegal foreign funding. The move strains ties with the United States.

February 11: The opposition calls for a general strike to press the military rulers to cede power.