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the day of revolt
yhis is the day that the egyptian revolution broke out. People all around cairo egypt gathered together to protest against the egyptian president. They protested about poverty rates, Government corruption and that there president hat has been in ofice for three decades. -
Protestor and officer killed
A protester and a police officer are killed in central Cairo as anti-government demonstrators pelt security forces with rocks and firebombs for a second day, according to witnesses.
Police use tear gas, water cannons and batons to disperse protesters in Cairo. Witnesses say that live ammunition is also fired into the air. In Suez, the scene of bloody clashes the previous day, police and protesters clash again. Medical personnel in Suez say 55 protesters and 15 police officers have been injured. -
Egypt shuts down the internet
Only hours before the largest planned protest yet, the internet in Egypt is shut down. At one point there was no internet in Cairo at all. People outside of Egypt conducted tests by tracing IP adresses and discovered that it was blocked on a country wide level instead of simple censoring. -
Internet returns
After 5 days of cut connections the internet is back online. It was originaly suspeded in an attempt to stop the nation wide protests.
Internet access was restored the day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak pledged not to seek re-election after 30 years in power. -
President steps down
Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak would be stepping down as president and turning power over to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and Mubarak resigned from office. The military junta, headed by effective head of state Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, announced on 13 February that the constitution would be suspended, both houses of parliament dissolved, and that the military would rule for six months until elections could be held. The prior cabinet, including Prime Minist -
Protedtors arreted
The army and military police clear out Tahrir Square, rounding up liberal activists and taking them to the famed Egyptian Museum, where they torture them. Ramy Essam, a young singer who wrote protest songs in Tahrir Square and was later arrested by the security forces, said he was beaten with wooden sticks and iron bars, and tortured with electrical shocks. Around 150 men and women protesters are ultimately tried and convicted in military courts, and sent to military prisons. -
Presidential elections begin
The first round of voting in presidential elections narrows a field of 13 candidates down to two finalists: Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, and Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister under Mubarak. -
Morsi sworn in as president
Morsi, the first Islamist to be elected as head of state, is also the first civilian leader in Egypt. He promises to be a president to “all Egyptians” and yanks open his suit jacket to show the cheering crowd that he is not wearing body armor — underscoring that he is not afraid. But the military’s power grab weeks earlier sets up a bitter power struggle between the Muslim Brotherhood and the secular military. -
March on palace
More than 100,000 protest the draft constitution and Morsi’s new powers, chanting “Leave! Leave!” The police fire tear gas, but allow the crowd to surge to the palace walls. The next day, Islamists attack an anti-Morsi sit-in, sparking street battles that leave at least 10 dead. -
Protests ignite
Millions of Egyptians pour into the streets, calling for Morsi to step down on the first anniversary of his election to office. Eight people are killed in clashes outside the Muslim Brotherhood’s Cairo headquarters. -
Morsi removed from office
The elite Republican Guard, ostensibly assigned to protect the president, places Morsi under house arrest, prohibiting him from communicating with anyone or from leaving the room. In the following hours, the new military leadership, led by Sisi, suspends the constitution and shuts down at least three Islamist television stations and issues arrest warrants for 300 Muslim Brotherhood officials, according to state media. Morsi’s supporters declare it a “military coup.” -
Military breaks up protests
Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters had been camped out for days in front of the Rabaa mosque in Cairo, protesting the military’s ouster of Morsi. Egyptian military and police had threatened to break up the camps, despite a series of high-level meetings from the U.S. and Europe asking the military to hold off. Sisi had promised a humane dispersal.
On Aug. 14, wearing riot gear and driving armored vehicles and bulldozers, the security forces move in, killing at least 600 people and
