5 August - Cave-in at the San Jose gold and copper mine leaves 33 Chilean miners trapped.
6 - 21 August - The men shelter in a tunnel 700m underground. They survive on rations of two tablespoons of tuna fish and half a cup of milk every 48 hours as they live in hope of being rescued.
Above ground, hundreds of people travel to the mine site on top of a mountain in the Atacama desert to pray for the trapped men. Rescue workers and families are unaware of the men's survival.
22 August - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera stuns his nation and the world when he announces that the 33 men are alive. The miners had tied a note to a drill looking for them 700 metres underground. The note triggered celebrations across Chile and focused world attention on what would be the toughest mining rescue ever attempted. Communication with the miners begins.
23 August - A camera lowered down the bore hole drilled 700m into the earth showed the miners sweaty and shirtless in the hot shelter, but in apparently good condition and high spirits.
A Strata 950, a South African-made industrial hydraulic bore, arrives at the mine to execute the labourious plans to drill a shaft wide enough to extract the miners.
24 August - A cylinder that carries water, food, medical supplies including anti-depressants, letters, games and gifts becomes a lifeline for the men. Relatives draft letters to the men, but are advised by psychologists to keep them optimistic.
26 August - Chilean officials tell the group of trapped miners that they could be stuck in their collapsed mine for months before being rescued.
29 August – The miners speak for the first time with their loved ones, reassuring each other in brief but moving conversations by radio-telephone after 24 days underground.
30 August - Drilling starts to rescue the trapped miners.
2 September - The mine drilling effort, which has reached a depth of 40m (131'), is briefly put on hold to shore up the shaft walls after a fault in the rock was detected.
14 September - One of the miners, Ariel Ticona, became a dad for the third time with the birth of his daughter who is named Esperanza Elizabeth.
18 September - The drill boring the rescue hole has now reached the men, but it was not yet wide enough to bring them back to the surface.
22 September – Officials announce the miners will receive media training to help them cope with the attention they will receive when they emerge.
23 September – The 33 miners spent their 50th day underground trapped in the mine.
29 September - The Chilean government issues a new video of miners operating vehicles and machinery as they move debris falling from the hole being drilled to rescue them.
5 October - The miners mark two months underground, as President Sebastian Pinera said he hoped to bring the workers to the surface by the end of next week.
8 October - The first of 33 miners could be brought up to the surface on Tuesday, a minister said as a rescue shaft was only hours from reaching the men.
10 October - Rescue workers finish drilling an escape shaft for 33 miners trapped for over two months underground.
11 October - Engineers successfully lower a capsule into a rescue shaft and bring it back to the surface in the first tests ahead of raising the 33 trapped miners after two months underground.
12 October - Chile counts down the hours to the start of a dramatic operation to winch the miners to the surface, with a presidential welcome awaiting them. The men are set to travel nearly half a mile through solid rock in a shaft just wider than a man's shoulders.
13 October: Some 69 days after their ordeal began, the first miner, Florencio Avalos, is pulled to the surface in a specially designed steel cage winched up through the rescue shaft.
