19 December 2018
Spark
Atbara's Spark
Students of Atbara Industrial School protest the bread crisis; the ruling National Congress Party's headquarters is set ablaze the same evening.
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December 2018 — April 2019
Timeline
177 days that changed Sudan
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Spark
Students of Atbara Industrial School protest the bread crisis; the ruling National Congress Party's headquarters is set ablaze the same evening.
Protest
Port Sudan, Gedaref, Dongola, and El Obeid join the protest wave within 24 hours of Atbara's spark.
Martyrdom
Tariq Ahmed, a final-year engineering student at Wadi El Neel University in Atbara, is killed.
Martyrdom
The death toll in Gedaref rises to 8 after violent clashes with security forces during the first week.
Protest
Omdurman joins with marches from popular neighborhoods (Al-Thawraat, Al-Arda South, Abu Sa'ad) that later become the model for resistance committees.
Protest
Bashir declares a nationwide state of emergency and dissolves the federal and state governments.
Sit-in
On the anniversary of the April 1985 uprising, hundreds of thousands march on the General Command and an open sit-in begins.
Regime falls
The army announces the regime's collapse, Bashir's arrest, and the formation of a transitional military council.
Protest
Awad Ibn Auf steps down from heading the military council after less than 24 hours; Abdel Fattah al-Burhan takes over.
Massacre
At dawn on 29 Ramadan, regular forces led by the Rapid Support Forces storm the sit-in square. Lawyers documented over 128 martyrs, hundreds wounded, and bodies thrown into the Nile.
Massacre
A solidarity gathering in Gedaref is dispersed by force; 3 martyrs fall, including a woman, on the same day.
Protest
The largest protest after the dispersal, demanding the transfer of power to civilians and forcing the military council back to negotiations.
Numbers
From 19 December 2018 to 3 June 2019
From the north to Darfur, from the Red Sea to the White Nile
Per the Lawyers' Committee documentation, 3 June 2019
Between Bashir's fall and Ibn Auf stepping down from the military council