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

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

Nov. 10, 1984. Terri Schindler and Michael Schiavo are mar ried at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Southampton, Pa

1986. Terri and Michael Schia vo move to St. Petersburg to be near her parents

Feb. 25, 1990. Terri Schiavo, 26, suffers cardiac arrest. Be cause her brain is deprived of oxygen, she lapses into what doctors call a persistent vege tative state and is placed on a feeding tube

1990-1992. Her husband and her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler of Gulfport, work to gether to find a therapy that will help her improve, but she remains in the coma-like state

November 1992. Michael Schiavo successfully sues the physicians who treated his wife before her cardiac arrest, and a Pinellas County jury eventually 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

Sept. 15, 1994. The guardian ship case is dismissed

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

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

April 2001. The Schindlers' ap peals fail. Terri Schiavo's feed ing tube is removed. Two days later, Circuit Judge Frank Que sada orders it reinserted in light of a new lawsuit filed by the Schindlers.

November 2001-January 2002. Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers try to resolve the case through mediation but fail to come to an agreement

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.

Oct. 11-22, 2002. With disputes over doctors settled, Greer opens trial on new therapies. Two doctors chosen by Terri Schiavo's parents say she can be helped; two selected by Mi chael Schiavo say she is be yond help and a doctor select ed by the court agrees.

Nov. 22, 2002. Greer again or ders Terri Schiavo's 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. With appeals running out, Greer sets a date of Oct. 15 to remove the feed ing tube. The Schindlers ask a federal court to intervene.

Oct. 7, 2003. Gov. Jeb Bush files a brief in the federal case, ask ing 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 Florida case.

Oct. 15, 2003. Doctors remove the feeding tube

Oct. 21, 2003. Bush successful ly pushes for an emergency act of the state Legislature to re store the feeding tube. The law becomes known as ""Terri's Law.'' Terri Schiavo is placed back on life support. A new lawsuit on the law's constitu tionality is immediately filed to be heard by Pinellas Circuit Judge Douglas Baird. Court maneuvers and appeals re sume

Oct. 31, 2003. The Pinellas cir cuit Chief Judge David Demers appoints University of South Florida health law professor Jay Wolfson as Terri Schiavo's guardian ad litem with respon sibility for determining wheth er she can learn to eat normal ly. His report to Bush advises tests and accord between Terri Schiavo's husband and par ents

May 6, 2004. Judge Baird de clares Terri's Law unconstitu tional

Sept. 23, 2004. The Florida Su preme Court strikes down Ter ri'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 eutha nasia a sin apply in the case

Jan. 24, 2005. The U.S. Su preme Court refuses to hear arguments for Terri's Law

Feb. 22, 2005. The 2nd District Court of Appeal lets expire a stay that had blocked removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Before the tube can be re moved, Greer issues an emer gency stay. Protestors appear at Woodside Hospice in Pinel las Park, where she is being cared for.

Feb. 23, 2005. In Judge Greer's court, the Schindlers ask for more time to file appeals to ad dress whether new therapies will help their daughter and whether their daughter's reli gious beliefs prohibit with holding nutrition. The Depart ment of Children & Families files a surprise request to inter vene in the case, seeking a stay in removal of the feeding tube while it investigates what it claims are new allegations of abuse and neglect

Feb. 25, 2005. Judge Greer gives Michael Schiavo permis sion to have Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed on March 18

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

March 8, 2005. Sen. Mel Marti nez, R-Orlando, and U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Palm Bay, in troduce similar bills in their re spective branches of Congress that would extend due process rights to the severely disabled and give the Schindlers legal recourse to prevent the remov al of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube

March 8, 2005. State Rep. Den nis Baxley, R-Orlando, intro duces a bill which presumes anyone who is severely inca pacitated would want a feed ing tube unless they explicitly refuse the tube in writing. State Sen. Daniel Webster, R- Winter Garden, sponsors the Senate version.

March 10, 2005. Greer rules DCF will not be allowed to de lay the removal of Terri Schia vo's feeding tube March 14, 2005. Bills to halt the removal of the feeding tube advance in the Florida Legisla ture.

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

March 17, 2005. The state House passes the Schiavo bill but the state Senate does not. Nine Republicans join Demo crats in opposing the legisla tion.

March 18, 2005. The U.S. Sen ate Health Committee re quests that Terri and Michael Schiavo appear at a hearing on March 28. Subpoenas are is sued to stop doctors from dis connecting the tube.

March 18, 2005. Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is disconnected after Judge Greer re-confirms his ruling

March 19, 2005. Congressional leaders agree on a bill that would allow the tube to be re connected 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. Sen ate 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. Bush returns to Washington and signs the bill. The Schindlers file an emer gency request with a Tampa federal judge to have the tube reconnected. .

March 22, 2005. U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore re fuses to order the reinsertion of the tube. The Schindlers ap peal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta

March 23, 2005. On the fifth day of the tube removal, the 11th Circuit declines to order the reinsertion of the tube. The Schindlers appeal to the Su preme Court

March 24, 2005. The U.S. Su preme Court refuses the case. Circuit Judge Greer denies the DCF motion to take custody of Terry Schiavo. Pinellas Park and Pinellas County law en forcement are on alert to en force a restraining order pre venting the Florida Depart ment of Law Enforcement from removing Terri Schiavo from the hospice

March 25, 2005. District Judge Whittemore again refuses again to order reinsertion of Terry Schiavo's feeding tube. The Schindlers appeal.

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

March 31, 2005:Terri Schiavo dies about 9 a.m. at 41.

Tribune research by Angie Drobnic Holan and Buddy Jau don.