The key events leading to yesterday's Middle East peace agreement were:
May 29th, 1996: Benjamin Netanyahu unseats Shimon Peres as prime minister and vows to boost security following wave of suicide bombings that kill dozens.
September 25th: Violence erupts over the opening of a second entrance to an archaeological tunnel site near Muslim shrines in Jerusalem's Old City; 61 Arabs and 15 Israeli soldiers die.
January 15th, 1997: Netanyahu and Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, agree to transfer most of the West Bank town of Hebron to Palestinian self-rule; Palestinian side agrees to curb anti-Israeli violence.
March 7th: Israeli cabinet approves handover of more West Bank land but Palestinians reject deal as short of what they had expected.
March 18th: 19 months of deadlock begins crisis when Israel goes ahead with Har Homa on hill-top Palestinian area know as Jabal Abu Ghneim at edge of Arab East Jerusalem.
March 21st: Bomb in a Tel Aviv cafe kills a Palestinian attacker and three Israeli women.
July 30th: Two Palestinian suicide bombers kill 15 Israelis in Jerusalem street market.
September 4th: Triple-suicide bombing in a Jerusalem shopping mall kills four Israelis.
September 11th: US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calls for suspension of Israeli settlements in occupied lands. Israel rejects the call.
January 18th, 1998: Albright meets Arafat in London and Netanyahu in Paris to push US proposals to break the Middle East deadlock.
January 20th: President Clinton launches a week of separate meetings in Washington with Netanyahu and Arafat, but no breakthrough.
April 3rd: Palestinian Authority accepts US peace plan calling on Israel to withdraw from 13 per cent of the West Bank and on the Palestinians to take tougher steps against militants.
May 11th: Clinton plan for a Netanyahu-Arafat summit in Washington falls through because of Israeli objections to US preconditions for the talks.
September 28th: Clinton meets Netanyahu and Arafat at White House; says they will return in October to try to conclude land-for-security deal.
October 7th: Albright meets Netanyahu and Arafat in Gaza and claims "significant progress"; announces summit on October 15th at Wye Plantation near Washington.
October 15th: Netanyahu, Arafat and their negotiating teams open summit talks at Wye Mills; Clinton personally and intensely involved in efforts to end 19-month deadlock.
October 19th: A Palestinian Islamic militant wounds 66 people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba in a handgrenade attack that threatens to derail the talks.
October 23rd: Israelis and Palestinians agree deal that will give Palestinians control over 13 per cent more of the West Bank in return for security guarantees and other promises.