Timelines
I decided the best thing to do was link to several. Remember, everybody's got an axe to grind.
Check them out. Compare them. What's missing in different ones? What's included? What are the sources? Are opinions squeezed in, or are they relatively objective?
Anyone who has other references feel free to tack them on as replies.
Any reasonably-brief questions on specific events I can probably find answers to if they aren't here.
CNN:
CNN links on its main page are often bloody javascripts, and I don't think direct links work. Go to main page and look somewhere for "timeline."
The Guardian
From some blogs:
On the Right
On the Left