Sept. 4, 1971: Hunt and Liddy burglarize Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
March 30, 1972: Mitchell, Magruder, Liddy and LaRue meet at Key Biscayne. Mitchell allegedly approves $250,000 plan including entry into DNC offices.
June 17, 1972: Democratic headquarters raided, 5 arrested.
June 19, 1972: Dean speaks with Colson and Ehrlichman; decision made for Dean to take custody of contents of Hunt's safe.
June 20, 1972: Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman discuss Watergate public relations offensive. Tape of meeting later subpoenaed and turned over to Sirica, but with an 18-minute gap.
June 21, 1972: Dean meets with Gray regarding FBl's Watergate investigation.
June 22. 1972: Nixon denies White House involvement.
June 23, 1972: Nixon instructs Haldeman to tell the FBI ''Don't go any further into this case period!" Nixon says the rationale for the order could be based on the fear of compromising CIA activity. Haldeman, Ehrlichman. CIA Director Helms and Deputy Director Walters meet. Walters later warns Gray that CIA operations in Mexico might be jeopardized by FBI investigators.
June 26 & 28, 1972: Dean meets Walters to request CIA money for Watergate conspirators.
June 28, 1972: Dean meets Mitchell about need for support money to obtain defendants' silence.
June 29, 1972: Stans meets with Kalmbach on raising and distributing money to Watergate defendants.
June 30, 1972: Nixon, Haldeman and Mitchell meet to discuss Watergate. Tape of conversation subpoenaed and surrendered to Sirica.
July 1, 1972: Mitchell resigns as campaign manager.
July 6, 1972: Gray tells Nixon White House staff was mortally wounding him.
Sept. 15, 1972: Nixon, Dean and Haldeman meet. Nixon compliments Dean on doing a "good job" on Watergate case. Tape subpoenaed and turned over to Sirica.
Sept. 19, 1972: Seven men plead not guilty: released on bond.
Jan. 11, 1973: Hunt pleads guilty to all six charges against him; freed on bail.
Jan. 15, 1973: Four Watergate defendants plead guilty; deny pressure from "higher-ups."
Jan. 22, 1973: Hugh Sloan discloses espionage funds paid to Liddy approved by Mitchell and Stans.
Jan. 30, 1973: Liddy, McCord convicted.
Feb. 7, 1973: Senate votes to establish committee to probe Watergate bugging and other espionage.
Feb. 27-23, 1973: Nixon tells Dean to report directly to him on all Watergate matters. Kalmbach's role in payoffs discussed.
March 13, 1973: Dean, Haldeman and Nixon meet and, according to Dean's testimony, discuss the possibility of payoffs to Watergate defendants.
March 21, 1973: Dean meets with Nixon and tells him case may break open and that he would tell the truth to grand jury. Payoffs to Hunt discussed. Haldeman participates in pert of the meeting. Later, Nixon meets with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Ziegler and Dean, to discuss possibility of White House aides testifying before the grand jury.
March 22, 1973: Nixon meets with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean to discuss strategy to deal with Ervin committee. Tape subpoenaed and surrendered to Sirica
March 27, 1973: Nixon meets with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Ziegler. They discuss getting Mitchell to take blame for Watergate to take pressure off the White House.
April 5, 1973: Nixon withdraws Gray nomination.
April 6, 1973: Dean secretly meets with federal Watergate prosecutors with information concerning the raid and subsequent developments.
April 15, 1973: Federal investigators learn of break-in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
May 2, 1973: White House aide David Young resigns; Egil Krogh Jr. leaves undersecretary of transportation post. Hunt discloses CIA involved in break-in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
May 10, 1973: Nixon announces major staff reorganization. Dean charges effort to curb truth.
May 11, 1973: Charges against Ellsberg, Russo dismissed.
May 17, 1973: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities begins hearings.
May 18, 1973: Richardson appoints Archibald Cox special prosecutor for Watergate case.
May 22, 1973: Nixon explains White House role; concedes probable involvement of close aides in cover-up.
May 25, 1973: White House issues statement on San Clemente financing.
June 12, 1973: Sirica grants Dean, Magruder immunity for Senate testimony.
June 21, 1973: GSA reports U.S. spent $1.9 million on Nixon homes.
June 25-29, 1973: Dean implicates Nixon in cover-up during Senate testimony; submits list of "enemies."
July 7, 1973: Nixon refuses the Senate Watergate committee access to requested presidential papers.
July 10-12, 1973: Mitchell tells Ervin panel he withheld Watergate information from Nixon.
July 16, 1973: President's secret tape recording system revealed by former aide during Senate testimony.
July 23, 26, 1973: Nixon defies Ervin and Cox subpoenas on tapes.
July 24-27, 30, 1973: Ehrlichman testifies at Senate hearings: disputes Dean; defends Nixon and Ellsberg break-in.
July 30-August 1, 1973: Haldeman denies cover-up role at Senate hearings; admits refreshing memory by listening to secret tapes.
August 9, 1973: Ervin committee sues for Watergate tapes.
August 22, 1973: Nixon accepts Watergate 'responsibility'; vows not to resign.
August 29, 1973: Sirica orders Nixon to turn over tapes; Nixon refuses.
September 4, 1973: Ehrlichman, 3 others indicted in Ellsberg break-in.
October 10, 1973: Agnew resigns and pleads 'no contest' to tax evasion charge.
October 12, 1973: Appeals court orders Nixon to surrender tapes.
October 19, 1973: Nixon proposes 'Stennis compromise' on tapes. Cox rejects Nixon order forbidding an appeal.
October 20, 1973: Nixon fires Cox; Richardson quits; Ruckelshaus fired.
October 23, 1973: Nixon reverses position, promises tapes to Sirica after protest telegrams flood Congress.
October 30, 1973: House begins impeachment inquiry.
October 31, 1973: White House lawyers tell court two key tapes never existed.
November 1, 1973: Saxbe named attorney general; Jaworski appointed as new special prosecutor.
November 21, 1973: Erasure of subpoenaed tape of Nixon Haldeman
conversation disclosed.
December 8, 1973: Nixon discloses data on personal finances.
Jan. 4, 1974: Nixon tells the Senate Watergate Committee he will not comply with its subpoenas for tapes and documents.
Jan. 15, 1974: Panel of experts examining the tapes surrendered by Nixon reports that an 18-minute gap in one of the tapes was caused by at least five separate erasing and re-recording operations, and not by a single, accidental erasure.
Jan. 24, 1974: Egil Krogh Jr. sentenced to six months in prison.
Feb. 6, 1974: The House approves 401-4 Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigation and grants the panel broad subpoena power to compel testimony or production of documents from any source, including the President.
Feb. 8, 1974: Gesell dismisses Senate Watergate Committee's suit.
Feb. 14, 1974: Jaworski writes to Sen. Eastland that he and the White House have reached an impasse on release of tapes.
Feb. 21, 1974: House Judiciary Committee's staff report states that violation of criminal law need not be a requisite for impeachment.
Feb. 25, 1974: Nixon asserts at a televised news conference that he does not expect to be impeached.
March 1, 1974: Watergate grand jury indicts Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Strachan, Mitchell, Mardian and Parkinson on charges of covering up the Watergate break-in.
March 7, 1974: St. Clair writes Rodino that Nixon would provide the House Judiciary Committee with the same materials already given to Jaworski. but would not comply with requests for further materials. Watergate grand jury indicts Ehrlichman, Colson, Liddy, Barker, Martinez and DeDiego for 1971 break-in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
March 18, 1974: Sirica rules that the grand jury report on Nixon's role in Watergate case should be sent to the House Judiciary Committee. Decision upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals March 21.
April 9, 1974: White House announces Nixon will pay $465,000 in back taxes plus interest on the basis of a report from the IRS.
April 5, 1974: Chapin convicted of perjury.
April 8, 1974: Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R. Conn.) accuses the IRS of politically motivated tax audits of individuals and organizations opposed to the President.
April 11, 1974: House Judiciary Committee votes 33-3 to issue a subpoena ordering Nixon to turn over all tape recordings and related materials on 42 conversations.
April 18, 1974: Sirica issues a new subpoena for tapes of 64 presidential conversations from June 20, 1972 to June 4, 1973.
April 28, 1974: Mitchell and Stans acquitted of all charges.
May 9, 1974: House Judiciary Committee opens hearings with a brief public session, and then goes into closed session to hear a presentation of events leading to the break-in.
May 16, 1974: Kleindienst pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of incomplete testimony before a Congressional committee.
May 21, 1974: Magruder sentenced to 10 months-4 years in prison.
May 22 1974: Nixon informs House Committee he will not comply with May 15 subpoenas or any future subpoenas "allegedly dealing with Watergate."
May 30, 1974: House Judiciary Committee notifies Nixon that his refusal to comply with subpoenas "might constitute a ground for impeachment."
June 3, 1974: Colson pleads guilty to felony charge of obstruction in Ellsberg trial.
June 6, 1974: White House acknowledges that the Watergate grand jury in February named Nixon as an unindicted conspirator in Watergate cover-up.
June 7, 1974: Kleindienst receives a suspended sentence.
June 11, 1974: Kissinger threatens to resign unless charges that he participated in wiretapping and had prior knowledge of formation of 'plumbers' are cleared up.
June 14, 1974: Gesell orders Ehrlichman to stand trial June 26 with three other defendants for 1971 Fielding break-in.
July 8, 1974: St. Clair and Jaworski argue executive privilege before Supreme Court.
July 11, 1974: Committee releases 4,133-page record of evidence assembled by staff about Watergate break-in and aftermath.
July 12, 1974: Ehrlichman, Liddy, Barker, and Martinez found guilty of violating civil rights of Dr. Lewis J. Fielding, Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
July 13, 1974: Senate Watergate Committee issues final report, focusing on campaign abuses.
July 24,, 1974: The Supreme Court rules 8-0 that Nixon must provide 64 tapes subpoenaed by Jaworski.
July 31, 1974: Ehrlichman is sentenced to 20 months-5 years in prison.
Aug. 5, 1974: Nixon issues statement admitting he tried to obstruct the investigation of the Watergate break-in in June 1972. Earlier in the day, Sen. Robert P. Griffin (Mich.), assistant Senate Republican leader, called for Nixon's resignation.
Aug. 6, 1974: Nixon tells the Cabinet he will not resign.
Aug. 8. 1974: Nixon announces his resignation.
Aug. 9, 1974: Gerald Ford sworn in as President.