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Mohamed Bouazizi starts selling vegetables. Police later seize his cart, he sets himself on fire and later dies. The act, following Wiki Leaks´¨publication of US criticisms of the regime, provokes young Tunisians to protest.
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali appears on television stating that ´´ the law will be applied with all firmness ´´ to protesters
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Protesters clash with police and set Fire to cars in several Tunisian cities. Security responds violently.
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Tunisian president bows to protest and flees to Saudi Arabia.
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Mohamed Ghannouchi resigns as the Prime Minister for the post-revolution goverment amid further clashes between police and protesters.
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A Tunisian court rules that the party of the former preside, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, be dissolved, trigerring street celebrations as one of the last vestiges of the ousted leader´s era is dismantled.
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A tape recorded by OsamaBin Laden is realesed posthumously onto islamist militant website. It praises the Arab Spring movements and predicts they will spread.
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Former Tunisian president and his wife sentenced to 35 years in jail after beung found guilty od theft in absentia by a Tunisian court.
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People queue to vote as candidates from 110 parties and scores of independents contest the Arab Spring´s first election.
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Tunisia´s constitutional assembly elects former activist, who returned from exile in France after Fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
