Sunday, June 30:
- Chanting "Leave!" and "the people want the ouster of the regime," crowds demonstrate across Egypt in response to a call from the grassroots movement Tamarod - Arabic for rebellion.
- In Cairo the protesters gather around the presidential palace and in Tahrir Square, epicentre of Egypt's 2011 revolution.
- Huge demonstrations also take place in Alexandria, Menouf and Mahallah in the Nile Delta, and in the canal cities of Suez and Port Said.
- The army speaks of "several million" protesters and a military source tells AFP: "It is the biggest protest in Egypt's history."
- Morsi supporters rally in the Cairo district of Nasr City. The army puts their numbers at 25,000.
- At least 16 people are killed nationwide, eight during clashes between government supporters and opposition forces outside the Cairo headquarters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.
- Morsi calls for dialogue, but Tamarod insists he step down.
Monday, July 1:
- Protesters set fire to the Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo then loot it.
- Tamarod gives Morsi until 1500 GMT on Tuesday July 2 to quit or face an open-ended campaign of civil disobedience.
- The tourism, environment, communications, and judicial and parliamentary affairs ministers resign.
- The army gives Morsi 48 hours to meet the "people's demands" or face an imposed solution.
- In Tahrir Square, anti-Morsi protesters erupt in joy on hearing the army's statement.
- Morsi's office rebuffs the army's ultimatum.
Tuesday, July 2:
- Morsi holds talks with army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
- The National Salvation Front, the main opposition coalition, says it would not support a "military coup" and trusts the army statement does not mean it would assume a political role.
- The spokesmen for the presidency and the cabinet quit.
- Opposition groups choose leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei to represent them in the negotiations called for by the army.
- Morsi's opponents pack Tahrir Square, while his backers join a sit-in in the Nasr City neighbourhood.
- Clashes between the rival sides leave seven people dead.
- Gunmen kill 16 people and wound 200 others at a Cairo rally supporting Morsi, the health ministry say.
Wednesday, July 3:
- As the army deadline passes, Morsi proposes a consensus government as a way out of the country's crisis.
- Security forces impose a travel ban on Morsi and several top Islamist allies, security officials say.
- Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousts Morsi and declares the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court caretaker leader.
Sisi also announces a freezing of the Islamist-drafted constitution and early presidential elections.
- Cairo protesters erupt in joy.
- Morsi denounces the move as "a coup" and in a prerecorded speech says "I am Egypt's elected president".
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