14 anti-government protesters are killed as Libyan protesters seeking to oust president Muammar Gaddafi defy a crackdown and take to the streets in four cities on what they called a "day of rage".
Social networking sites mobilize for protests on a "day of anger" in Libya.
Anti-regime protests continue overnight after yesterday's "Day of Rage". Funerals of those killed due today. Human Rights Watch lists 24 killed and many wounded.
Libyans in Benghazi take over a radio station; it broadcasts its message to the world - calling on the international media to cover what "the criminal Gaddafi" is doing - while libya17.com posts videos in English.
Libya shuts off access to the Internet, as a result, causing Al Jazeera to have lost its signal to Libya.
More than 200 people are killed and 900 other are injured as military troops attack protesters.
Members of a Libyan Army unit defect and claim to have "liberated" Benghazi.
Shaikh Faraj al Zuway, the head of the Zuwayya tribe in eastern Libya, threatens to cut off oil exports unless the Government of Libya stops the "suppression of protestors".
Al Jazeera reports that the protests have spread to the capital Tripoli.
The Libyan Air Force launches airstrikes on crowds of protesters. Two civilian helicopters carrying French nationals and two Libyan Mirage jets land in Malta. The Libyan pilots claim that they received orders to bomb protesters, and request political asylum.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, warns in a nationally televised address that the protests could develop into a civil war.
UAE-based Al Arabiya and Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported earlier that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, head of Libya, has left for Brazil or Venezuela.
Libya's representatives to the Arab League, China, India and other countries resign in protest at the violence.
Clashes and gunfire are reported in Tripoli for the first time.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Muslim cleric and the spiritual leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, issues a fatwa ordering the death of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Islamic leaders and clerics in Libya urge all Muslims to rebel against Gaddafi.
Hillary Clinton calls on Libyan authorities to "stop this unacceptable bloodshed".
Colonel Gaddafi gives a major speech claiming that he will remain head of the revolution.
Abdul Fatah Younis, the Libyan Interior Minister and general in the Libyan Army, defects.
The old monarchy-era flag, which has become a popular symbol among anti-government protesters, is hoisted at the Libyan embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
Peru suspends diplomatic relations with Libya, becoming the first nation to do so since the unrest, and calls on the United Nations Security Council to introduce a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace to stop Libyan Air Force aircraft attacking civilians.
Uncertainty in Libya leads to falls in world stock markets and increases in crude oil prices.
Al Jazeera reports Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa stating that Libya is suspended from sessions.
More than 5,700 people have fled Libya for Tunisia in the past couple of days.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the former Libyan Minister for Justice, claims that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi personally authorised the Lockerbie bombing.
Nations including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Italy and Greece evacuate their citizens from Libya.
Oil prices reach a two-year high due to uncertainty in the Middle East most notably in Libya.
Al Jazeera reports that many African migrant workers in Libya have been victims of violence due to suspicions that they are mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
France sends two planeloads of aid to opponents of the Libyan regime in Benghazi.
Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi surround the town of Zawiya as part of a general counterattack.
The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, announces that the United States will be sending assistance teams to Libya's borders with Algeria and Egypt.
Muammar Gaddafi tells the BBC that all of his people love him and refuses to acknowledge that there are protests in Tripoli.
The United States freezes $30 billion in Libyan assets.
The Justice and Equality Movement in Darfur, western Sudan, asks the United Nations to rescue its leader in Libya, after accusations he was supporting mercenary activities in the country.
Opposition forces rescue seven rebels 'buried alive' under concrete in a government compound in Benghazi, while close to 100,000 migrant workers flee Libya.
