In exactly two hours time, Hasina will take oath as Bangladesh's new prime minister, for the second time. Courtesy of AFP, Here are key dates in her career:
- December 16, 1971: Awami League party leader and Sheikh Hasina's father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- detained by Pakistan during the country's independence war -- is named first president while still in jail, and after his release in early 1972 also takes up post of prime minister.
- August 15, 1975: Sheikh Mujib and more than a dozen others, including his wife, are shot dead in the family home as part of a military coup. His two daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, are abroad at the time and are offered asylum in India and Britain.
- May 17, 1981: Sheikh Hasina returns to Bangladesh as Awami League party leader.
- December 6, 1990: Arch rivals Skeikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), join forces to oust military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad after a people's revolt.
- February 27, 1991: Democracy is restored and Zia elected Bangladesh's first female prime minister, narrowly beating Sheikh Hasina.
- June 12, 1996: Sheikh Hasina elected prime minister for a five-year term after a narrow victory over Zia.
- October 1, 2001: Zia again elected prime minister with landslide margin amid allegations by Sheikh Hasina of vote rigging.
- January 11, 2007: President Iajuddin Ahmed declares a state of emergency, bans political activity and cancels elections after months of political violence. An interim government, backed by the army, takes over soon after.
- March 15: Sheikh Hasina leaves for the US, denying she has been exiled.
- April 11: Government puts Zia under house arrest. Sheikh Hasina charged with the murder of four people during the violence in the lead-up to the cancelled elections.
- May 7: Sheikh Hasina returns home, welcomed by thousands.
- July 16: Sheikh Hasina is arrested on corruption and murder charges.
- September 3: Zia is arrested on graft charges.
- January 30, 2008: Sheikh Hasina's corruption trial begins, but is later adjourned.
- June 11: Sheikh Hasina is freed, though charges against her remain, in a deal to ensure her party takes part in elections.
- September 11: Zia is released from jail with charges still in place.
- December 29: Elections held, in which Sheikh Hasina's Awami League wins a landslide victory with 230 out of a possible 300 seats, while Zia's BNP gets only 29.
- January 5: One extortion charge against Sheikh Hasina dropped. Ten others remain in place, including a murder charge.
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