Dec. 3, 1963. Theresa Marie Schindler is born to Bob and Mary Schindler, who live in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She grows up in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

1981. She graduates from Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster, Pa.

1982. Schindler meets Michael Schiavo of Levittown, Pa., while a student at Bucks County Community College near Philadelphia.

Nov. 10, 1984. They are married at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Southampton, Pa.

1986. The Schiavos move to St. Petersburg.

Feb. 25, 1990. Terri Schiavo, 26, suffers cardiac arrest. Because her brain is deprived of oxygen, she lapses into what doctors call a persistent vegetative state. She is placed on a feeding tube.

1990-92. Her husband and her parents, now living in Gulfport, work together to find a therapy to help her improve. She remains in the comalike state.

November 1992. Michael Schiavo wins a lawsuit against the physicians who treated his wife before her cardiac arrest. A Pinellas County jury awards the couple more than $1 million, with $750,000 designated for his wife's perpetual care. The sum, arrived at in January 1993, was a reduction from the original jury award.

July 29, 1993. The Schindlers petition to have Michael Schiavo removed as Terri Schiavo's guardian. The petition is later dismissed.

May 11, 1998. Michael Schiavo files a petition to end his wife's life support.

Feb. 11, 2000. Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer grants the request and orders Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed. Her parents begin appeals.

April 24, 2001. The feeding tube is removed after appeals fail.

April 26, 2001. Circuit Judge Frank Quesada orders tube reinserted after the Schindlers file a new lawsuit.

Oct. 17, 2001. The 2nd District Court of Appeal orders Greer to hold a second trial to decide whether new therapies might help Terri Schiavo.

November 2001-January 2002. Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers try but are unable to resolve the case through mediation.

Oct. 11-22, 2002. With disputes settled on the issue of doctors examining Terri Schiavo, Greer opens trial on new therapies. Two doctors chosen by the Schindlers say their daughter can be helped. Two selected by Michael Schiavo say she is beyond help, and a doctor selected by the court agrees.

Nov. 22, 2002. Greer again orders the feeding tube removed, setting a date for Jan. 3, 2003. The Schindlers appeal.

Dec. 13, 2002. Greer postpones his order to allow appeals to go forward.

Sept. 17, 2003. Greer sets a date of Oct. 15 to remove the feeding tube. The Schindlers ask a federal court to intervene.

Oct. 7, 2003. Gov. Jeb Bush files a brief in the federal case, asking the court to endorse the Schindlers' petition.

Oct. 10, 2003. U.S. District Judge Richard Lazzara rules that the federal court has no jurisdiction in the case.

Oct. 15, 2003. Doctors remove the feeding tube.

Oct. 21, 2003. Bush signs into law an emergency act of the state Legislature to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Under orders from Bush, she is taken to a hospital for the procedure. A new lawsuit is immediately filed to contest the constitutionality of the Legislature's act, known as Terri's Law. Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Douglas Baird is assigned the case.

Oct. 31, 2003. Circuit Chief Judge David Demers appoints University of South Florida health law professor Jay Wolfson as Terri Schiavo's guardian ad litem. Wolfson is to determine whether she can learn to eat normally. His report to Bush advises tests and accord between Terri Schiavo's husband and parents.

May 6, 2004. Judge Baird declares Terri's Law unconstitutional.

Sept. 23, 2004. The Florida Supreme Court strikes down Terri's Law.

Jan. 12, 2005. The Schindlers ask the 2nd District Court of Appeal for a new trial, claiming that recent statements by Pope John Paul II declaring euthanasia a sin apply in the case.

Jan. 24, 2005. The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review the ruling that struck down Terri's Law.

Feb. 22, 2005. The 2nd District Court of Appeal lets expire a stay that had blocked removal of the feeding tube. Before the tube can be removed, Greer issues an emergency stay. Protesters appear at Hospice House Woodside in Pinellas Park, where she is being cared for.

Feb. 23, 2005. The Schindlers ask Greer for more time to file appeals to address whether new therapies will help their daughter and whether her religious beliefs prohibit withholding nutrition. The state Department of Children & Families files a surprise request to intervene. The agency seeks to delay removal of the feeding tube while it investigates what it claims are new allegations of abuse and neglect.

Feb. 25, 2005. Greer gives Michael Schiavo permission to have the feeding tube removed March 18.

March 7, 2005. Greer hears arguments over whether Terri Schiavo should be fed orally if her feeding tube is removed.

March 8, 2005. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Orlando, and U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Palm Bay, introduce bills in Congress that would extend due process rights to the severely disabled and give the Schindlers legal recourse to prevent the removal of their daughter's feeding tube.

March 8, 2005. State Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Orlando, introduces a bill that presumes anyone who is severely incapacitated would want a feeding tube unless they explicitly refuse it in writing. State Sen. Daniel Webster, R-Winter Garden, sponsors the Senate version.

March 10, 2005. Greer rules the Department of Children & Families will not be allowed to delay removal of the feeding tube.

March 14, 2005. Bills to halt the removal of the feeding tube advance in the state Legislature.

March 15, 2005: A narrower bill passes the state Senate Judiciary Committee. It would affect only those ruled to be in a persistent vegetative state, whose families disagree on withholding food and water and who have not left a written directive.

March 17, 2005. The state House passes the Schiavo bill; the state Senate does not. Nine Republicans join Democrats in opposing the legislation.

March 18, 2005. The U.S. Senate Health Committee requests that Terri and Michael Schiavo appear at a hearing March 28. Subpoenas are issued in an attempt to stop doctors from disconnecting the tube. It is disconnected after Greer reconfirms his ruling.

March 19, 2005. Congressional leaders agree on a bill that would allow the tube to be reconnected while a federal court reviews the case. The White House says President Bush will sign the bill when it passes.

March 20, 2005. The U.S. Senate passes the bill.

March 21, 2005. The U.S. House passes the bill after a scramble to reassemble enough representatives, who had left on Congress' two- week break. President Bush signs the bill. The Schindlers file an emergency request with a Tampa federal judge to have the tube reconnected.

March 22, 2005. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore refuses to order reinsertion of the tube. The Schindlers appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

March 23, 2005. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declines to order reinsertion of the tube. The Schindlers appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

March 24, 2005. The U.S. Supreme Court refuses the case. Greer denies the Department of Children & Families' motion to take custody of Terri Schiavo. Pinellas Park and Pinellas County law enforcement are on alert to enforce a restraining order preventing the Florida Department of Law Enforcement from removing her from the hospice.

March 25, 2005. Whittemore again refuses to order feeding to resume. The Schindlers appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal is denied.

March 26, 2005. The Schindlers' attorney says there will be no more federal appeals. Greer denies the Schindlers' final trial court appeal. The Schindlers file an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court. It's rejected.

March 27, 2005. Communion and last rites are performed for Terri Schiavo, who is Catholic. Protests outside the hospice gain intensity. A member of the Schindler family asks demonstrators to be calm.

March 28, 2005. Gov. Bush reiterates there is nothing else he can do to have feeding resumed.

March 29, 2005. The Rev. Jesse Jackson visits the Schindlers. Just before midnight, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to consider an emergency petition by the Schindlers.

March 30, 2005. The appeals court rejects the bid. The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the case as well.

March 31, 2005. Terri Schiavo dies.

Tribune research by Angie Drobnic Holan and Buddy Jaudon