MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Jan. 15, 1929 -- Michael King, later known as Martin Luther King Jr., is born in Atlanta.

Feb. 25, 1948 -- King is ordained and appointed associate pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

June 18, 1953 -- King marries Coretta Scott at the Scott home near Marion, Ala.

Oct. 31, 1954 -- King is ordained as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.

June 5, 1955 -- King receives a doctorate in theology from Boston University.

December 1955 -- The Montgomery bus boycott begins and King is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, five days after Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to obey the city's policy mandating segregation on buses.

Jan. 26, 1956 -- King is arrested for speeding and is jailed for the first time in Montgomery.

Jan. 30, 1956 -- King's home is bombed.

Dec. 20, 1956 -- Montgomery buses are integrated after the U.S. Supreme Court delcares Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional. King is among the first to ride an integrated bus in Montgomery.

Aug. 8-9, 1957 -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed in Montgomery.

June 23, 1958 -- King meets with President Eisenhower.

Sept. 20, 1958 -- King is stabbed in harlem.

Jan. 24, 1960 -- King co-pastors Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father, Martin Luther King Sr.

April 16, 1963 -- King is jailed in Birmingham, Ala.

Aug. 28, 1963 -- King delivers "I Have A Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Sept. 22, 1963 -- King eulogizes three girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham church.

December 1964 -- King receives Nobel Peace Prize.

March 21-25, 1965 -- King leads civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

Aug. 6, 1965 -- King is present when President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act.

August 1965 -- King publicly opposes the Vietnam War.

Fall 1967 -- King talks of organizing a mass civil disobedience campaign in Washington to force the government to end poverty.

March 28, 1968 -- King leads a march of about 6,000 protesters in support of striking Memphis sanitation workers.

April 3, 1968 -- King delivers his last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop," in Memphis.

April 4, 1968 -- King is assassinated in Memphis.

April 9, 1968 -- King is buried in Atlanta.