Timeline: Mumbarak's resignation

Feb 11, 2011 |

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Cairo: Key events on Friday when President Hosni Mubarak quit, handing power to the army after fleeing to his Red Sea retreat of Sharm el-Sheikh.

-- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 --

- Demonstrators in Tahrir Square prepare for what could be their biggest protest yet against Mubarak's rule.

- Smaller crowds protest outside the presidential palace and state television headquarters.

- Three army officers shed their weapons and uniforms and join hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding Mubarak's immediate overthrow.

- The army throws its weight behind Mubarak while trying to reassure anti-regime protesters and says it will guarantee free and fair elections. It calls on demonstrators to go home and back to work.

- Demonstrators react with anger after the military backs Mubarak. "You have disappointed us, all our hopes rested in you," shouts one protester. The crowd chants slogans calling for Mubarak to be tried.

- Human Rights Watch warns that Thursday's speech by President Mubarak promising reforms failed to address Egypt's political crisis and blames the army for defending his "repressive regime."

- One protester dies and 20 are injured in clashes with police in the north Sinai town of Al-Arish.

- Mubarak leaves Cairo for his Red Sea retreat of Sharm el-Sheikh as more than a million furious Egyptians around the country demand his ouster.

- Mubarak's move to the Sharm is a "positive first step," a US official says.

- Mubarak steps down, his deputy Omar Suleiman announces in a televised address.

- Cairo erupts with joy as Mubarak's 30-year rule comes to an end after more than two weeks of mass protest.

- US stocks surge on the news, with the Dow moving from an early slight loss to add 0.30 percent, while the Nasdaq also rises 0.30 percent.

- US President Barack Obama to make a televised statement on Mubarak's resignation, the White House says.

- EU says Mubarak "listened to the voices" of the people.

- Israel says it hopes the transition of power will be conducted "smoothly."

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