Bradley Manning timeline | Chelsea Manning | The Guardian

17 December 1987

Bradley Manning is born in Crescent, Oklahoma to an American father and Welsh mother

November 2001

Manning and his mother move to Haverfordwest in Wales after his parents' divorce. The teenager shows an aptitude for computers at school, but returns to the US to live with his father in 2005

October 2007

At 19, joins the US army. His father had served as an intelligence analyst

October 2009

Manning is sent to Iraq, where he has access to top secret information. He is isolated and unhappy

November 2009 Makes contact with WikiLeaks for the first time after it leaked 570,000 pager messages from 9/11

January 2010

Downloads the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs

April 2010

WikiLeaks posts a video of Iraqi civilians and journalists being killed by a US helicopter gunship some time in July 2007

21 May 2010

Manning contacts hacker Adrian Lamo online, saying he is the source of the leaks. Lamo records the chats and hands them over to the US defence department and Wired.com

29 May 2010

Manning is arrested in Kuwait

5 June 2010

Charged with leaking classified information

25 July 2010

A series of reports on the Afghan war, based on US military internal logs, are published by the Guardian, the New York Times and other media groups

29 July 2010

Manning is moved to Quantico in the US, where he is held in a solitary cell

22 October 2010

Iraq war logs published, detailing civilian deaths, torture, summary executions and war crimes

28 November 2010

US embassy cables are published, revealing what diplomats really think about their postings

January 2011

Amnesty International denounces Manning's treatment at Quantico

11 March 2011

Manning's charges updated to 22 violations, including ''aiding the enemy'', which carries a life sentence

March 2011

US state department spokesman PJ Crowley calls Manning's treatment ''ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid'', and later resigns

20 March 2011

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, is arrested for protesting against Manning's imprisonment

April 2011

The Guantnamo files are released, containing US's secret assessments of detainees

July 2011

Wired.com publishes chat logs between Manning and Lamo

16 December 2011 The first pre-trial hearing begins, and 4/5ths of defence witnesses are barred

March 2012

UN says Manning ''subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment''

August 2012

Prosecution reveals evidence that Manning's treatment at Quantico was ordered by a higher command

17 December 2012

Manning turns 25, his third birthday in prison without trial

28 February 2013

Pleads guilty to leaking military information

3 June 2013

Court martial begins

30 July 2013

Cleared of ''aiding the enemy'' but guilty of five espionage charges

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