Sources: Reuters
Video footage emerges on YouTube of a police van being driven at high speed into peacefully marching anti-regime protesters. 2011-02-3
The overnight atmosphere among the crowds gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square is tense with gunfire reported. 2011-01-31
Egyptian air force fighter planes fly low over Cairo and helicopters hover above the city as protestors defy the government-ordered curfew. 2011-01-30
Several countries, including Greece, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States, announce plans to evacuate citizens from Egypt. Cairo's U.S. embassy schedules flights to so-called safe haven locations in Europe. 2011-01-30
The Indian government airlifts 300 Indians, mostly women and children, from Egypt as the crisis worsens. 2011-01-30
Wealthy Egyptian businessman Ahmed Ezz, a close confidante of Mubarak's son, resigns from the ruling NDP party. At least one of his steel company's offices has been targeted by protesters. 2011-01-29
Protesters gather outside the Egyptian embassy in Amman in support of "the people of Egypt" and calling on the United States: "do not interfere". 2011-01-29
Mubarak orders the army into the streets as buildings and police vehicles burn. 2011-01-28
President Mubarak calls on the government to resign, but gives no indication that he will stand down. 2011-01-28
The latest U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks indicate that police brutality in Egypt is "routine and pervasive" and the use of torture so widespread that the Egyptian government has stopped denying it exists. 2011-01-28