Born in Rangoon (Capital of Burma) on Tuesday. She is the daughter of national leader General Aung San (assassinated on July 19, 1947) and Daw Khin Kyi.

Daw Khin Kyi was appointed Burma's ambassador to India. She accompanied Daw Khin Kyi (mother) to Delhi on her appointment.

BA in philosophy, politics and economics, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University (elected Honorary Fellow in 1990).

Assistant Secretary, Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, United Nations Secretariat, New York.

Research Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bhutan; Married Dr. Michael Aris, a British scholar.

Birth of sons Alexander in London (1973) and Kim (1977) in Oxford

Visiting Scholar, Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla

Return back to Burma to attend her ailing mother while student protests breaks out in Rangoon.

Gen. Ne Win steps down as Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) after 26 years, triggering pro-democracy movement.

The famous 8-8-88 mass uprising starts in Rangoon and spreads to the entire country, drawing millions of people to protest against the BSPP government. The following military crackdown killed thousands.

Proposed the formation of a People's Consultative Committee during the democractic uprising in Burma

Addressed half-million people mass rally in front of the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon and calls for a democratic government.

The military reestablishes its power and the State Law and Order Restoration Council is formed. The military again crushes the pro-democracy movement with force killing hundreds more.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) is formed, with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as general secretary.

Daw Khin Kyi, mother of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi dies. The funeral procession draws a huge crowd of supporters, which turns into a peaceful protest against military rule.

As leader of the NLD, delivered over a hundred public addresses during extensive campaign tours in Rangoon, Pegu, Magwe, Sagaing, Mandalay, Moulmein, Tavoy, Mergui, Pakkoku, Taunggyi, Kyaukpadaung, Monywa, Myinmu, Myitkyina, etc.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi confronts an army unit ordered to aim their rifles at her while campaigning in the Irrawaddy Delta. An army major finally intervenes, countermands the order and prevents her assassination.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attends memorial service for the dissidents killed earlier in 1988 uprisings. The military detains several students.

To avoid confrontations with several thousand additional troops deployed by SLORC, the NLD leadership calls off the mass rally planned at the annual Martyr's Day ceremonies.

The military regime that seized power from the people on September 18, 1988, placed her under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years went on hunger strike to protect the students taken from her house to the Military Intelligence Interrogation Center recognized as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International

Despite her continuing detention, the National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the general elections by securing 82 percent of the seats the military junta refuses to recognize the results of the election.

Awarded, in absentia, the 1990 Rafto Human Rights Prize.

In response to a call by UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar for her release, the SLORC issued a statement that should she wish to stay together with her husband and children, she would be allowed to leave Burma on humanitarian grounds.

Awarded, in absentia, the 1990 Sakharov Prize (human rights prize of the European Parliament)

The military regime retroactively amends the law under which Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is held to allow for detention for up to five years without charge or trial.

Awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Freedom from fear and other writings published in London.

The Nobel Committee revealed that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has established a health and education trust in support of the Burmese people to use the $1.3 million prize money.

Seven fellow Nobel Laureates flew into Thailand having been denied entry into Burma. From there, they called for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, visited refugee camps and offered support to the democratic and ethnic opposition of Burma.   They traveled on to Geneva to repeat their appeal at the UN Commission for Human Rights.

The military junta used another excuse to continue the detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. It says she can be detained for up to six years under their law.   Whilst the regime as a whole can choose to detain a person for five years, the regime said an extra year can be added by the decision of a three-member committee comprising the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs and Defense.

UNDP Resident Representative Jehan Raheem, US Congressman Bill Richardson and New York Times reporter Philip Shenon visit Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time from outside her family. She calls for a dialogue with SLORC.

Gen. Than Shwe and Gen. Khin Nyunt of SLORC meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time since the house arrest.

A second meeting takes place at the State Guest House between Gen. Khin Nyunt and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Released from house arrest.

She tells reporters she still dedicated to restoration of democracy in Burma and calls for dialogue on political reform between SLORC, democracy movement and ethnic minority groups.   She also urges foreign businessmen thinking of investing in Burma to wait until democracy restored.

NLD reappoints her as party secretary general in defiance of a SLORC ban on changes to party leaderships.

She informs SLORC the NLD is withdrawing from National Convention and shortly afterwards senior SLORC official warns armed forces will ""annihilate"" anyone disturbing national interests.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi forced to cancel trip to Mandalay to attend supporters' trial after train coach she booked on develops last-minute fault. She later tells reporters the SLORC trying to prevent her meeting the people.

NLD chairman Aung Shwe calls on SLORC to convene the parliament which was elected in the 1990 poll.

Authorities prevent Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and supporters performing traditional new year ceremony at a Rangoon lake.

State newspaper commentary calls Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior NLD figures poisonous snakes and calls for her weekend talks to crowds outside her house to be stopped. Two senior SLORC generals warn of action against "destructionist groups" and "traitors" and sweep is launched against NLD members planning to attend party congress at her house coinciding with sixth anniversary of May 27, 1990, election win.

NLD officials say 218 party members detained but party conference, which due to begin on May 26, still on.

She twice spent several days in her car after being blocked by police when trying to leave Rangoon to meet with NLD officials. A five-day standoff was forcibly ended by the military.   Authorities ended Suu Kyi's previous standoff on July 29 when they seized her car, forcibly restrained her and drove it back to her home against her will.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi left her home to meet members of her political party outside the capital. As in previous attempts, authorities blocked her en route.   She was headed for Bassein, 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Yangon, when she was stopped at the same roadblock where she had been held up for six days last month. That trip was halted close to the village of Anyarsu, around 27 km (17 miles) west of Yangon. She had taken food and water with her, but supplies eventually ran out. Authorities refused to let her buy fresh supplies and prevented her party members and doctors from giving her food and water.

Her husband, Dr Michael Aris, who she had not seen since 1995, was dying from prostate cancer. If Suu Kyi had left Myanmar to see him, it was clear that the junta would not allow her to return to fight for her country.   And they refused to issue him a visa. She was never able to see him before his death on March 27, 1999 in London.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 54th birthday with a small private religious ceremony in Rangoon. She also released a statement urging Burmese women to assert them to bring peace and progress to the country.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Freedom of the City honor Saturday night in recognition of her activism in her Southeast Asian country. She could not attend the Dublin ceremony, but her son Kim Aris flew to Ireland to collect the award in her place.

She was stopped by police in the Rangoon suburb of Dala as she and party colleagues attempted to travel to the countryside for political organization work.   On September 2, 2000 - nearly 200 riot police raided a roadside convoy and forced Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to return to the capital, ending a nine-day standoff between the opposition leader and Myanmar's military regime. Security forces also placed at least one senior leader of her National League for Democracy under house arrest and sealed off the league's headquarters in Yangon.

Ruling military authorities yesterday raided the headquarters of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, seizing documents and arresting several members of her party.

She said that she would make a trip outside Rangoon within the next few days in defiance of the ruling military junta's ban on travel outside the capital.   As I'm not legally restricted in any way we have decided that it is time for us to make this clear. I shall travel outside Rangoon ( Rangoon) within the next few days, she said.   This will be an organized trip and will be done openly ,she said to the cheers of 300 supporters outside the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters. She announced that she was planning to leave Rangoon by train to test the military government's resolve in maintaining its restrictions on her. Previous efforts by the authorities to prevent the NLD leader from leaving the capital have provoked widespread international condemnation. United States President Bill Clinton has warned the Burmese authorities against any further confrontation with the opposition, saying the world is watching. Residents near her home on Rangoon's University Avenue reported that security forces had parked vans, cars and motorcycles at both ends of the street in an effort to prevent her leaving the house.

She went to the main railway station with vice chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), U Tin Oo, and a number of other party colleagues, planning to travel to the northern city of Mandalay.   They have not been permitted to board a train, and they are still in the waiting room with the station itself surrounded by a heavy security presence, preventing visitors from entering the building.   A number of opposition supporters have been taken away from the station in military vehicles. Earlier, the authorities blocked the road leading to her house. The move is the latest challenge to restrictions on opposition movements imposed by the military authorities.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , and other party leaders have reportedly been confined to their homes on temporary detention.

US President Bill Clinton has conferred America's highest civilian honor on Burma's pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. She was unable to collect the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in person but her son Alexander Aris received the award on her behalf.

Twenty activists from the pro-democracy league were released from jail. Vice Chairman U Tin Oo was also released from detention and sent back to his home last night after being held in a military camp for four months.   But the visitors are not allowed yet. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, however, remains confined to her residence, with access to her tightly controlled.   But, European Union mission is scheduled to visit Myanmar from 01/28/2001 to 01/30/2001.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meets senior representatives of SLORC.

The military authorities have reportedly ordered a halt to attacks on the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in the state-run media.   For the first time in years, the Burmese newspapers carried none of the usual poisonous, sarcastic cartoons and commentaries condemning the 53-year-old Nobel peace laureate and her party, the National League for Democracy.

The Court in Myanmar has dismissed a suit by the estranged brother of opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi over ownership rights to her home, in another sign the military is easing its crackdown on the pro-democracy figurehead.

An European Union delegation met with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, only her second reported diplomatic contact during more than four months of house detention.   EU spent more than two hours with Suu Kyi at her residence in Yangon, where she has been confined by the military regime since Sept. 22.   The EU delegation's four-day visit, is aimed at breaking the decade-long deadlock between the regime and the political opposition led by Suu Kyi. It is the first such EU mission to Myanmar since July 1999.