Arab Spring Uprising Egypt

  • January 2011

    January 2011
    -A man sets himself on fire next to the Parliament building in Cairo to protest the country’s economic conditions.
    -Turn Cairo into a Was Zone
    -Army declares itself allied to the protesters.
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    Arab Spring Uprising Egypt

  • February 2011

    February 2011
    -Mubarak will not run in next election
    -Mubarak resigns and hands power over to the military
  • August 2011

    August 2011
    -Army brings in the tanks, violently takes over Tahrir Square.
  • September 2011

    September 2011
    -The Army announces parliamentary elections since Mubarak was overthrown.
    -Protesters fear remnants of the old regime will stay in power.
  • October 2011

    October 2011
    -Supreme Council of the Armed Forces plans that could see it retain power until 2013.
  • November 2011

    November 2011
    -Violence escalates as protest spread beyond Cairo and Alexandria.
    -Egyptians vote in the country’s first free ballot
  • December 2011

    December 2011
    -Egyptians go to the polls once more in runoff elections
    -A new government is sworn in by Kamal Ganzouri
    -Kamal Ganzouri was appointed to prime minister
  • May 2012

    May 2012
    -Egyptians vote in the first round of the presidential election
  • June 2012

    June 2012
    -Mubarak sentenced to life in prison by an Egyptian court.
    -Egypt’s election commission announces Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi wins Egypt’s presidential runoff