A timeline of Mubarak's rise and rule

Hosni Mubarak came to power in Egypt nearly 30 years ago. Here's a look at his tenure.

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Dec. 14, 1977

President Anwar Sadat, left, confers with Hosni Mubarak, then Egypt's vice president, during a trip aboard Sadat's helicopter.

Eddie Adams / AP

Oct. 6, 1981

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, right, and Vice President Hosni Mubarak watch a military parade from a reviewing stand in Cairo just before soldiers opened fire from a truck, killing Sadat and injuring Mubarak.

Bill Foley / AP

Oct. 6 1981

While one gunman fires an automatic weapon across the top of the reviewing stand, another gunman moves to the left of the stand. After Sadat's death, Mubarak assumed the presidency.

/ AP

Oct. 14, 1981

Hosni Mubarak addresses the People's Assembly in Cairo, during his swearing-in as president after Sadat's assassination.

Bill Foley / AP

Feb. 14, 1984

King Hussein of Jordan and Mubarak visit President Ronald Reagan at the White House. Mubarak has often served as a crucial U.S. ally in the Middle East.

James A. Parcell / The Washington Post

April 6, 1987

Police hold back Egyptians shouting slogans in favor of President Hosni Mubarak outside the polling station where he cast his vote in parliamentary elections in Cairo.

Khaled Abu Seif / Reuters

April 4, 1989

President George H.W. Bush walks with Mubarak as they arrive at the White House after spending the afternoon attending a baseball game.

Doug Mills / Associated Press

July 24, 1990

Mubarak is greeted in Baghdad by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who had massed troops, tanks and anti-aircraft missiles on the border with Kuwait shortly before the Persian Gulf War began. Mubarak was trying to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis.

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May 12, 1992

Diana, Princess of Wales, listens to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during her visit in Egypt.

Mona Sharaf / AFP/Getty Images

April 6, 1993

Mubarak and President Bill Clinton hold a joint news conference at the White House.

James M. Thresher / The Washington Post

Oct. 6, 1993

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, left, joins Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to sit for photographers at the start of a historic meeting in Cairo.

Denis Paquin / Associated Press

Oct. 25, 1993

President Bill Clinton escorts Mubarak from the Oval Office after a meeting between them.

Frank Johnston / The Washington Post

June 26, 1995

Gunmen tried to assassinate Mubarak as his motorcade drove from Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia on his way to the opening of an Organization of African Unity summit of African leaders. Above, a bullet hole in the windshield of the car of the attackers, two of whom were killed when security agents shot back.

/ Agence France-Presse

Sept. 28, 1995

President Bill Clinton watches as Mubarak, right, shakes hands with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the East Room of the White House after the signing of the Middle East peace accords. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and King Hussein of Jordan look on.

Doug Mills / Associated Press

Feb. 24, 2000

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Pope John Paul II meet following the pope's arrival at Cairo International Airport for a three-day visit to Egypt.

Gabriel Bouys / AFP/Getty Images

March 9, 2000

Mubarak shakes hands with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak after a three-way summit Egypt hosted in the desert resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Jim Hollander / Reuters

June 20, 2000

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, right, listens to his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak during the second day of the G-15 summit in Cairo.

Amr Nabil / AP

Oct. 4, 2001

Mubarak meets with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld at the Itehadeya presidential palace in Cairo about international efforts in the fight against al-Qaeda shortly after Sept. 11.

Aladin Abdel Naby / Reuters

Oct. 9, 2001

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak talks to the press as Japan's former prime minister and special envoy to the Middle East Ryutaro Hashimoto, left, looks on, during the inauguration of a suspension bridge across the Suez Canal near the town of Ismailiya.

Mona Mursi / AFP

June 8, 2002

President George W. Bush and Mubarak speak to the media at Camp David. Mubarak was pushing his case for jump-starting the Middle East peace process by declaring a Palestinian state before its final borders were set.

Hyungwon Kang / Reuters

Feb. 8, 2003

Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II chat at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba. They were holding talks amid a flurry of Arab diplomatic activity to avert a U.S.-led war against Iraq.

Yousef Allan / Reuters

June 3, 2003

President George W. Bush drives himself and Mubarak to make a statement with Middle Eastern leaders on an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Amr Nabil / Associated Press

May 25, 2005

A video grab from Egyptian TV shows Hosni Mubarak voting in Cairo in the country's referendum on whether to introduce direct presidential elections with more than one candidate.

ETV / Reuters

Sept. 1, 2005

Hundreds of protesters from the Muslim Brotherhood and opposition movement Kefaya demonstrate in Cairo against the Egyptian government and Mubarak, just before the country's first multi-candidate presidential election.

Mona Sharaf / Reuters

Sept. 6, 2005

A Nile cruise passes a giant poster promoting Mubarak in Cairo a day before 10 candidates competed in the country's first multi-candidate presidential elections.

Amr Nabil / Associated Press

Dec. 8, 2005

Hosni Mubarak and former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman attend a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the holy Saudi city of Mecca.

Hassan Ammar / AFP/Getty Images

April 25, 2006

Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, visit victims of terrorist bomb attacks in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. A triple bombing in the Sinai tourist resort of Dahab killed about two dozen people and wounded scores.

Tara Todras-whitehill / Reuters

March 27, 2007

Saudi King Abdullah, right, welcomes Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the Riyadh airport ahead of an Arab summit held in Saudi Arabia.

Hassan Ammar / AFP/Getty Images

May 18, 2008

Mubarak speaks during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

Ammar Awad / Reuters

Sept. 1, 2010

Mubarak and President Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House.

Susan Walsh / Associated Press

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak addresses the nation in this still image taken from video Thursday.

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