January 1: Doctors Syndicate holds a partial strike, excluding emergency services, to demand reform of the health system. 3: The Health Ministry reports 17 people killed in clashes between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the police in Cairo, Alexandria, Ismailia, Fayoum and Minya. 4: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Qatar's ambassador following a statement from the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticising the Egyptian government's ongoing crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. 6: Egypt decides to withdraw its ambassador to Qatar for consultation once the constitutional referendum for Egyptian expatriates is over. 7: Dozens of demonstrators protest outside the Qatari embassy in Cairo to demand the expulsion of the Qatari ambassador and the recall of Egypt's ambassador to Doha in response to Qatari support for the Muslim Brotherhood. 8: Polls open for more than 681,000 expatriate Egyptians living in 161 countries to vote on the constitution. 14: Egyptians begin voting in the two-day referendum on the new constitution. 18: The Supreme Electoral Committee (SEC) announces that the constitution was approved by 98.1 per cent of voters, with a 38.6 per cent (20,613,677) turnout. 24: On the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 Revolution four bombs explode in Greater Cairo. The Cairo Security Directorate in Bab Al-Khalk is among the targets. Six people are killed and dozens injured. 25: Twelve people are killed during nationwide marches. Thousands gather in Tahrir Square to pledge their support for Minister of Defence Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. Anti-government protesters are prevented from entering the square. 26: Interim President Adli Mansour announces presidential elections will be held before parliamentary polls, a change in the transitional roadmap. 27: Interim Deputy Prime Minister and International Cooperation Minister Ziad Bahaaddin announces his resignation. 27: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) gives the green light to Army Chief and Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to announce his candidacy for the presidency. 30: The African Union's (AU) High-Level Panel for Egypt upholds a July 2013 decision to suspend Egypt's membership in the union. February 7: Three people are killed and ten injured in confrontations when supporters of Mohamed Morsi take to the streets to protest his ouster. 7: The third season of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's satirical show “El-Bernameg” resumes on MBC Misr after being cancelled by Egyptian satellite channel CBC in October 2013. 11: A section of Al-Sheikh Mansour Bridge in Cairo's Al-Marg district collapses after fire breaks out and causes gas cylinders stored in a shack beneath the bridge to explode. One rescue worker is killed and several people are injured. 16: A terrorist attack by Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis targets a tourist bus in the Red Sea resort of Taba, killing three Korean tourists and the Egyptian bus driver, and injuring 14 others. 23: The military claims its engineers have made an “unprecedented” scientific breakthrough, inventing devices that can diagnose and treat Hepatitis C and HIV without taking a blood sample from the patient. 24: Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawi announces on state TV that his cabinet has submitted its resignation to interim President Adli Mansour. 25: The president's scientific advisor, Essam Heggi, describes the army's announcement of its Hepatitis C and HIV devices as “a scientific scandal.” March 4: The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters bans all activities by Hamas in Egypt, and extends the prohibition to all organisations and groups branching from, financed or supported by it pending a court verdict in an espionage case involving ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Islamist group. 5: An improvised explosive device hits Egypt's reserve gas pipeline near Port Said. There are no casualties. 15: Six military police conscripts are shot dead by unknown gunmen after performing dawn prayers at a checkpoint at Mostorod, close to the Cairo-Ismailia agricultural road. 17: Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi appoints Mohamed Al-Shahat to replace Ahmed Wasfi as chief of the second field army. 24: After two hearings a Minya court sentences 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death for attacking a police station. The attack occurred the previous year in Minya and left one policeman dead. 26: Dressed in military uniform, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi announces his resignation as minister of defence in a televised speech. 30: The Presidential Elections Commission announces presidential elections will take place on 26 and 27 May. 30: Al-Sisi's first public outing in civilian attire: he appears dressed in a tracksuit and riding a bicycle in photos circulated on social media. 31: Two students are shot dead when security forces storm Al-Azhar University where protests have been held on an almost daily basis since the beginning of academic year. April 2: Three bombs are detonated close to Cairo University. Tarek Al-Mergawi, head of investigations in West Giza, is killed and five police officers injured. 5: Tribal clashes in Aswan leave 25 dead and 56 injured. 18: A bomb explodes in Giza's Lebanon Square killing a police officer and injuring another. 19: Saudi-owned MBC Misr satellite channel announces Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's show will not be broadcast until 30 May so as not to influence voters. 20: Abdel-Aziz Salman, head of the Higher Presidential Elections Committee, announces that Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received 188,930 endorsements for his presidential candidacy. His only rival, Hamdeen Sabbahi, received 31,555. 27: Ten people are killed and 14 injured when three microbuses collide with a truck on the Beni Suef-Fayoum highway. 28: The Minya court that sentenced 529 defendants to death in March sentences another 683, including Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie. The Grand Mufti upholds 37 of the first batch of death sentences. May 2: Four people are killed and 12 injured as bombs are detonated in South Sinai and Cairo. The first, a homemade device, explodes at a traffic checkpoint in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis killing one soldier and injuring three. A second explosion occurs, in the South Sinai city of Al-Tor, when a suicide bomber targets a police checkpoint, leaving two dead and five injured. A third bomb targets a tourist bus 30 km outside of Sharm El-Sheikh, killing one and injuring four. 3: The Salafist Nour Party announces its backing for former military chief Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in the presidential elections. 5: In an interview with ONTV's Ibrahim Eissa and CBC's Lamis Al-Hadidi, presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi says the banned Muslim Brotherhood “will cease to exist” if he wins the presidential race. 21: The Presidential Election Committee announces that Al-Sisi received 296,628 (94.5 per cent) of votes cast by Egyptian expatriates; Sabahi, 17,207 (5.5 per cent). 21: Eleven people, including seven security officers, are injured when a bomb is thrown at a security vehicle in Al-Arish by unknown assailants on a motorbike. 26: Polls open for the first day of the two-day presidential election. 27: The Presidential Election Committee announces that the vote will continue for a third day. June 3: The Presidential Election Committee declares Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi Egypt's new president, reporting he won 23.78 million votes. Hamdeen Sabahi wins just 757,511 (3.09 per cent) of the count. 7: Shubra Al-Kheima Criminal Court sentences Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and nine others to death on charges of inciting violence while blocking the Qalyoub agricultural road in July 2013. 8: Al-Sisi takes the presidential oath at the Supreme Constitutional Court. Interim President Adli Mansour, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb and Pope Tawdaros II are in the audience. 19: Giza Criminal Court sentences Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 13 other Islamist leaders to death for killing 10 people and injuring 20 during clashes around the Istiqama Mosque in Giza in July 2013. 21: Minya Criminal Court confirms 183 death sentences, including one against Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie. The sentences of four defendants are commuted to life in prison and 496 are acquitted. 22: The US State Department says $575 million of its $1.5 billion annual aid to Egypt has been released after being been frozen in October 2013. 23: Three Al-Jazeera journalists, detained with 17 others in December 2013, are sentenced to lengthy prison terms on charges of spreading false news, “falsely portraying Egypt as being in a state of civil war,” and aiding or joining the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Two of the men receive seven years, while the third is sentenced to ten years. 30: Three consecutive explosions rock Al-Ittihadiya Presidential Palace in Heliopolis, killing two police officers. Ajnad Misr claims responsibility for the attack. July 1: Al-Sisi imposes income tax on the overseas earnings of Egyptians to encourage them to make Egypt “the centre of their activities.” 2: A car bomb explodes near the Air Force Hospital in Abbassiya, injuring one and causing a panic among residents. 3: Four people are killed and 215 arrested as violent clashes mark the anniversary of the ouster of Mohamed Morsi. 4: A bomb being assembled at a poultry farm in Fayoum governorate explodes, killing four militants. 5: The cabinet announces a reduction in fuel subsidies. Mainstream fuel prices are increased by up to 78 per cent while the price of industrial gas rises by up to 75 per cent. 11: Al-Sisi issues a decree increasing military pensions by 10 per cent. 19: Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis attacks a military checkpoint in Al-Wadi Al-Gedid governorate killing 21 border guards. Al-Sisi announces three-days of mourning. August 5: A police officer, four conscripts and four militants are killed in clashes in Matrouh during attacks on two checkpoints. 9: The Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, is dissolved by court order. 11: Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators aimed at finding a long-term solution to the conflict in Gaza begin in Cairo after a three-day ceasefire is agreed between Israel and Hamas. 22: Forty-four are killed and 41 injured when two buses collide in South Sinai. 25: Nineteen people are killed and 17 wounded when two microbuses crash close to the village of Al-Dabaiya in Luxor. 30: Ten people are killed and five injured when a truck hits a microbus on the Cairo–Ismailia highway. September 6: Al-Sisi forms a council of scientists and experts to advise on the implementation of national projects. 13: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Cairo to discuss ways to combat extremist groups with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri. 16: Nine people are killed and 30 injured when a bus travelling from Luxor crashes into a truck hauling marble. 17: Al-Sisi receives the Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi at the presidential headquarters in Heliopolis. 21: An air force plane crashes in Fayoum, leaving six dead and one injured. 23: Al-Sisi calls for investing in renewable energy during a brief speech before the Climate Change Summit at the 69th United Nations General Assembly. 25: Al-Sisi meets with US President Barack Obama for the first time. They discuss issues ranging from the Islamic State (IS) group and the situation in Libya to the detention of journalists in Egypt. 28: Al-Sisi promises to increase the number of scholarships for students overseas during a speech at Cairo University. October 12: International donors pledge $5.4 billion for the reconstruction of Gaza at a conference in Cairo. 13: Thirty people are killed and more than a dozen injured when three minibuses collide on a desert road near Edfu. 24: A state of emergency is declared in parts of North Sinai after 31 soldiers are killed in two attacks, one on the Karm Alkwadis checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid and a second at a checkpoint in Al-Arish. It is the military's biggest loss of life in decades. 24: Egypt closes the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. 25: In a TV address, Al-Sisi says Egypt is facing an existential threat from terrorists. 26: Twenty-three activists, including Yara Sallam and Sanaa Seif, are sentenced to three years in jail for organising a protest without Interior Ministry permission, a breach of 2013's controversial protest law. 29: The army begins demolishing houses in Rafah to form a buffer zone along the border area with Gaza. November 7: Two people are killed and three injured in an attack on a military checkpoint in Al-Qantara Gharb. 8: Students Against the Coup announce the death of two students during clashes between security forces and protesters in Cairo and Fayoum. Five other students were injured. 12: Judge Mohamed Nagi Shehata refers former presidential candidate Khaled Ali to the prosecution for insulting the court after a verbal altercation between them during a hearing in the “cabinet clashes” case. Shehata then adjourns the session to 22 November. 14: Sinai-based terrorist group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis posts its first video message since pledging allegiance to Islamic State. It includes footage of the Karm Al-Kawadis attack. 14: The army announces it killed ten terrorists during security raids in North Sinai. 24: Port Said Criminal Court adjourns the retrial of defendants in the “Port Said massacre” case to 20 December. Seventy-three people face charges of murder after clashes in the Port Said football stadium in February 2012 left 74 dead. 28: Two protestors are killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and security forces in the Cairo district of Matariya. 29: The retrial of Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister Habib Al-Adli and six of Adli's aides on charges of killing peaceful demonstrators during the 18 days of protests that led to Mubarak's overthrow ends with the acquittal of all defendants. 30: The acquittal verdicts spark protests in Cairo and other cities and on university campuses. 30: The president's office orders Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb to look into procedures for compensating the families of those killed and injured in the January 2011 uprising. December 2: Seven terrorists are killed and 15 arrested in Sinai. 3: Al-Sisi announces a decree is being drafted that will make insulting the 25 January and the 30 June revolutions a criminal offence. 4: A Cairo criminal court adjourns the retrial of activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and 24 others to 11 December. The defendants face charges of protesting without Interior Ministry approval. The protest, against the military trial of civilians, was held outside the Shura Council on 26 November 2013.
