Taken from here.
:: April 28, 1937: Saddam is born in the village of Uja near Tikrit.
:: 1957: Saddam joins the Baath Socialist Party.
:: 1958: Arrested for killing his brother-in-law, a Communist, and jailed.
:: 1959: Flees the country after taking part in an ambush in Baghdad.
:: 1963: Saddam returns from Egypt.
:: 1968: Baathists and army officers overthrow the regime. Saddam takes charge of internal security and authority passes to Revolutionary Command Council under Ahmed Hassan al Bakr, his cousin.
:: July 16, 1979: Saddam takes over as president from al Bakr, and launches a purge of the Baath Party.
:: September 22, 1980: Sends forces into Iran, sparking an eight-year war.
:: March 28, 1988: Uses chemical weapons against Kurdish town of Halabja.
:: August 2, 1990: Saddam invades Kuwait.
:: January 17, 1991: Attacked by a US-led coalition and Kuwait is liberated in a month.
:: March, 1991: He crushes a Shi’ite revolt in south and a Kurd revolt in north.
:: April 17, 1991: Complying with a UN Resolution, he starts providing information on weapons of mass destruction, but is accused of cheating.
:: February 20, 1996: He orders the killing of two sons-in-law who returned to Baghdad after receiving guarantees of safety.
:: December 16, 1998: Weapons inspectors are withdrawn from Iraq. Four days of US-British air and missile strikes begin.
:: November 8, 2002: Saddam is threatened with “serious consequences” if he does not disarm in a UN Security Council resolution.
:: March 17, 2003: US, Britain and Spain declare the time for diplomacy as over and President Bush gives Saddam 48 hours to leave Iraq.
:: March 20, 2003: American forces launch war with military strike on Dora Farms, a target south of Baghdad.
:: April 7, 2003: A section of the Mansour district in Baghdad where Saddam and his sons were said to be meeting is bombed.
:: April 9, 2003: Crowds greet US troops in Baghdad, go on looting rampages and topple 40ft statue of Saddam.
:: July 22, 2003: Saddam’s sons, Qusai and Odai are killed. American forces then raid the northern city of Mosul and miss Saddam “by a matter of hours”.
:: December 13, 2003: Saddam is captured in the town of Adwar, near Tikrit.
:: June 30, 2004: He is transferred to Iraqi legal custody.
:: July 1, 2004: Saddam and regime figures appear in court. Charges of war crimes and genocide are rejected.
:: June 13, 2005: Saddam is shown in a video being questioned about the 1982 massacre in Dujail, where nearly 150 Shiite Muslims were killed after an assassination bid against the president.
:: October 19, 2005: A trial begins, with Saddam challenging the court’s legitimacy.
:: October 20, 2005: Masked gunmen kidnap defence attorney Saadoun al Janabi after he leaves his Baghdad office. His body is found the next day.
:: November 8, 2005: Defence lawyer Adel al Zubeidi is killed in a Baghdad ambush and a colleague, Thamir al Khuzaie, is wounded.
:: November 28, 2005: The trial reconvenes and Saddam calls Americans “occupiers and invaders”.
:: December 21, 2005: Saddam claims Americans beat and tortured him and other defendants, and prays openly in court despite judge’s order for trial to proceed.
:: January 15, 2006: Chief judge Rizgar Amin, a Kurd, resigns after complaints by Shiite politicians that he had failed to keep control of court proceedings.
:: January 23, 2006: Court officials name Raouf Abdul-Rahman, another Kurd, to replace Amin.
:: June 21, 2006: Defence lawyer Khamis al Obeidi is abducted and killed.
:: July 7, 2006: Saddam and three others refuse food to protest lack of security for lawyers and conduct of the trial.
:: July 23, 2006: Saddam is taken to hospital on the 17th day of his hunger strike and fed through a tube.
:: July 27, 2006: The Dujail trial adjourns.
:: November 5, 2006: Saddam is convicted of crimes against humanity by the court in Baghdad. He is sentenced to death by hanging. Baghdad’s international airport is closed until further notice, part of an open-ended curfew in the capital and two neighbouring provinces designed to head-off a feared outbreak of violence.
:: November 7, 2006: A sombre and subdued Saddam calls on Iraqis to “forgive, reconcile and shake hands” as he returns to court for his Kurdish genocide trial.
:: November 28, 2006: Lawyer Giovanni di Stefano, on Saddam’s defence team, submits papers with the US District Court of Columbia asking it to overturn the death sentence.
:: November 29, 2006: One of Saddam’s defence lawyers is ejected from court during his trial for genocide. Badie Arif Ezzat is detained for 24 hours for “insulting the court”.
:: December 26, 2006: Iraq’s highest appeals court upholds the death sentence and orders that it be carried out within 30 days. US President George Bush’s spokesman welcomes the ruling.
:: December 28, 2006: Saddam’s half brothers visit him in his Baghdad jail cell and he hands over his will and other personal belongings.
:: December 29, 2006: Saddam remains in American custody as an adviser to Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki says he will be executed before 6am (3am GMT) on Saturday, December 30.
:: December 30, 2006: Saddam is hanged just before 6am local time. His half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti and former judge Awad al Bander will hang after the weekend Islamic holiday, the Iraqi government says.