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| 1953 | Birth |  |
| 21st June The eldest of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto |
| 1969 | Education | |
| Harvard From 1969 to 1973 attends Radcliffe College at Harvard University, where she obtains a Bachelor of Arts degree with cum laude honors in comparative government |
| 1973 | Education | |
| Oxford Between 1973 and 1977 Bhutto studies Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
| 1977 | Education | |
| Oxford Completes a course in International Law and Diplomacy while at Oxford |
| 1979 | Arrest | |
| 4th April Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan after completing her studies, is placed under house arrest in the wake of her father's imprisonment and subsequent execution |
| 1979 | Execution of Bhutto | |
| 4th April Despite the accusation being "widely doubted by the public" and despite many clemency appeals from foreign leaders, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is hanged |
| 1984 | Arrest | |
| Allowed to return to the United Kingdom, Bhutto becomes a leader in exile of the PPP, her father's party |
| 1984 | Pakistan Peoples Party | |
| Allowed to return to the United Kingdom, Bhutto becomes a leader in exile of the PPP, her father's party |
| 1984 | Party Leader | |
| Allowed to return to the United Kingdom, Bhutto becomes a leader in exile of the PPP, her father's party |
| 1985 | Assassination | |
| 4th April Benazir Bhutto's brother Shahnawaz is killed under suspicious circumstances in France |
| 1986 | Exile of Bhutto | |
| Returns to Pakistan after 2 years exile in Britain |
| 1987 | Marriage | |
| 18th Dec Marries Asif Zardari |
| 1988 | 1st Female Prime Minister | |
| 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country |
| 1988 | Election | |
| 16th Nov In the first open election in more than a decade, Bhutto's PPP win the largest bloc of seats in the National Assembly |
| 1988 | Innuaguration of Bhutto | |
| 2nd Dec Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government, becoming at age 35 the youngest person, and the first woman, to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times |
| 1988 | National Assembly | |
| 16th Nov In the first open election in more than a decade, Bhutto's PPP win the largest bloc of seats in the National Assembly |
| 1988 | Prime Minister | |
| 2nd Dec Appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1st term |
| 2nd Dec Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government, becoming at age 35 the youngest person, and the first woman, to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times |
| 1989 | Prize For Freedom | |
| Awarded the Prize For Freedom by the Liberal International. |
| 1990 | Arrest | |
| Charged with corruption & missuse of power |
| 1990 | Dismissal | |
| 6th Aug Dismissed by President Khan on charges of corruption & ineptitude, no trial is ever held |
| 6th Aug Zia's prot‚g‚ Nawaz Sharif subsequently comes to power |
| 1990 | Election | |
| The National elections see Benazir Bhutto's PPP losing to coalition of rightist parties, Nawaz Sharif is elected Prime Minister |
| 1990 | Nuclear Warfare | |
| Pakistans becomes a nuclear power |
| 1990 | Rebellion | |
| Oct The Pucca Qila incident in Hyderabad intensifies racial violence throughout Sind |
| 1993 | Election | |
| Elections are held; Benazir Bhutto's government wins a slim margin & Benazir becomes Prime Minister |
| 1993 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan, 2nd term |
| 1996 | Constitution | |
| Bhutto is dismissed amid corruption scandals by President Farooq Leghari, who used the Eighth Amendment discretionary powers to dissolve the government |
| 1996 | Dismissal | |
| Bhutto is dismissed amid corruption scandals by President Farooq Leghari, who used the Eighth Amendment discretionary powers to dissolve the government |
| The Supreme Court affirms President Leghari's dismissal in a 6-1 ruling |
| 1996 | Election | |
| Oct After being dismissed by the then-president of Pakistan on charges of corruption, Bhutto's party loses the October elections |
| Oct Serves as leader of the opposition while Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister for the next three years |
| Oct Sharif returns to power in February 1997 with such a huge majority that the result is immediately questioned by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, Sharif won by obtaining 90 percent of the national votes cast |
| 1998 | Exile of Bhutto | |
| Bhutto goes into self-imposed exile in Dubai |
| 1998 | Scandal | |
| The Swiss Government hands over documents to the government of Pakistan which relate to corruption allegations against Benazir Bhutto and her husband |
| 2002 | Constitution | |
| Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf amends Pakistan's constitution to ban prime ministers from serving more than two terms, this disqualifies Bhutto from ever holding the office again |
| 2002 | Election | |
| Oct Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition government with Musharraf's party, PML-Q |
| Oct The Bhutto-led PPP secures the highest number of votes (28.42%) and eighty seats (23.16%) in the national assembly in the October 2002 general elections |
| 2003 | Minhaj ul Quran International | |
| 3rd Aug Bhutto becomes a member of Minhaj ul Quran International (An international Muslim educational and welfare organization) |
| 2003 | Scandal | |
| 6th Aug Swiss magistrates find Bhutto and her husband guilty of money laundering, they are given six-month suspended jail terms, fined $50,000 each and were ordered to pay $11 million to the Pakistani government |
| 2003 | Trial | |
| 6th Aug Swiss magistrates find Bhutto and her husband guilty of money laundering, they are given six-month suspended jail terms, fined $50,000 each and were ordered to pay $11 million to the Pakistani government |
| 2006 | Scandal | |
| Interpol issues a request for the arrest of Bhutto and her husband on corruption charges, at the request of Pakistan |
| 2007 | Arrest | |
| 8th Nov Bhutto is placed under house arrest just a few hours before she was due to lead and address a rally against the state of emergency |
| 2007 | Assassination | |
| 27th Dec Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa states that, "We condemn this assassination and terrorist act, and pray for God Almighty to bless her soul" |
| 27th Dec Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 parliamentary elections |
| 27th Dec The UN Security Council holds an emergency meeting and unanimously condemns the assassination |
| 2007 | Burial | |
| 28th Dec Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto's body is flown to her hometown of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in Larkana District, Sindh, and is buried next to her father in the family mausoleum at a ceremony attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners |
| 2007 | Constitution | |
| 17th Sep Benazir Bhutto accuses Pervez Musharraf's allies of pushing Pakistan into crisis by their refusal to permit democratic reforms and power-sharing |
| 2007 | Death | |
| 27th Dec Liaquat National Bagh Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 parliamentary elections |
| 28th Dec The Interior Ministry of Pakistan states that "Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle, and the shock waves from the blast knocked her head into a lever attached to the sunroof, fracturing her skull" |
| 2007 | Election | |
| 8th Dec Bhutto meets Nawaz Sharif to publicize their demand that Musharraf fulfill his promise to lift the state of emergency before January's parliamentary elections, threatening to boycott the vote if he failed to comply |
| 2007 | Exile of Bhutto | |
| Bhutto declares her intention to return to Pakistan within 2007, which she did, in spite of Musharraf's statements of May 2007 about not allowing her to return ahead of the country's general election, due late 2007 or early 2008 |
| 29th Aug Bhutto announces that Musharraf would step down as chief of the army |
| 1st Sep Bhutto vows to return to Pakistan "very soon", regardless of whether or not she reached a power-sharing deal with Musharraf before then |
| 17th Sep Bhutto accuses Musharraf's allies of pushing Pakistan into crisis by their refusal to permit democratic reforms and power-sharing. |
| Oct Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed states that officials agreed to grant Benazir Bhutto amnesty versus pending corruption charges |
| 5th Oct Musharraf signs the National Reconciliation Ordinance, giving amnesty to Bhutto and other political leaders-except exiled former premier Nawaz Sharif-in all court cases against them, including all corruption charges |
| 18th Oct Karachi After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returns to Karachi to prepare for the 2008 national elections |
| 18th Oct Karachi Bhutto later claimed that she had warned the Pakistani government that suicide bomb squads would target her upon her return to Pakistan and that the government had failed to act |
| 18th Oct Karachi En route to a rally in Karachi two explosions occur shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Jinnah International Airport, she was not injured but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, killed 136 people |
| 18th Oct Karachi The dead include at least 50 of the security guards from her PPP who had formed a human chain around her truck to keep potential bombers away, as well as 6 police officers |
| 2007 | Scandal | |
| Oct Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed states that officials agreed to grant Benazir Bhutto amnesty versus pending corruption charges |
| 2007 | State of Emergency | |
| 8th Nov Bhutto is placed under house arrest just a few hours before she was due to lead and address a rally against the state of emergency |
| 8th Dec Bhutto meets Nawaz Sharif to publicize their demand that Musharraf fulfill his promise to lift the state of emergency before January's parliamentary elections, threatening to boycott the vote if he failed to comply |
