This day in histroy. 2008 election run-off, a chronology of events.

Second round of voting is held. Tsvangirai's name remains on the ballot even though he withdrew from the race. Residents say they were forced to vote by threats of violence or arson from the Mugabe supporters.

March 29: Zimbabweans vote peacefully in presidential, parliamentary and local council elections.

April 2: Opposition Movement for Democratic Change says its own tallies show its leader Morgan Tsvangirai won presidential elections outright with 50.3% of vote.

April 4: A month passes without ZEC releasing the election results. Opposition MDC goes to court to try to force release of all election results; court rejects demand. ZANU says there will be a runoff and endorses Mugabe as its candidate.

May 2: ZEC releases presidential results, saying Mr. Tsvangirai won most votes, but not enough to avoid runoff with Mugabe, the second-place finisher.

May 10: Tsvangirai, who left Zim after the election, announces in South Africa that he will participate in runoff.

May 16: ZEC sets runoff date as June 27, after moving the deadline to 90 days after official election results are released -- beyond the legally required 21 days.

May 17: Mr. Tsvangirai postpones return to Zim after his party said he learned about a planned assassination attempt

May 24: Tsvangirai returns to Zimbabwe.

May 27: Tsvangirai says politically motivated violence has killed 50 of his supporters since the election.

June 3: Government orders international aid groups to suspend operations, after accusing them of campaigning for the opposition.

June 4: Mr. Tsvangirai detained for nine hours north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city.

June 5: A mob believed loyal to Mr. Mugabe assaults a convoy of U.S. and British diplomats, beating a local staffer. The government orders aid groups to halt operations indefinitely

June 6: Mr. Tsvangirai detained briefly while campaigning near Bulawayo.

June 12: Zimbabwe's No. 2 opposition official, Tendai Biti, arrested at Harare airport upon returning from South Africa. Mr. Tsvangirai detained by police twice briefly while campaigning in the south.

June 19: Mr. Biti formally charged with treason, which can carry the death penalty.

June 20: Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights says it has recorded 85 deaths in political violence since the first round of voting.

June 22: Mr. Tsvangirai announces he is pulling out of the runoff, citing violence against his supporters.

24 June The MDC formally submitted Tsvangirai's withdrawal to the Electoral Commission but the Electoral Commission did not accept the withdrawa because it considered the withdrawal to have been filed too late

25 June, SADC called for the election to be delayed and for "meaningful talks" to take place between ZANU and the MDC, stating that "the people of Zimbabwe can solve their own problems".

25 June Representatives of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party rejected the idea of foreign intervention into Zimbabwean affairs, especially by the former colonial powers.

26 June Tsvangirai is hiding at the Dutch Embassy. says he was "the prime target" and would not "take chances" regarding his safety; he claimed that the rule of law did not exist in Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai stressed in another statement that he did not favour military intervention.

27 June Mugabe enters the election alone as the second round was held as planned on 27 June, and Tsvangirai's name remained on the ballot.

@HeraldZimbabwe says, turnout was high and the MDC's call for a boycott was not followed.

27 June Independent media says there were reports that some people were pressured or forced to vote, as well as reports that voter secrecy was not respected in some places.

The BBC reported that ZANU militias went to homes in townships in Harare to pressure people into voting.

27 June Zimbabwean officials hailed the decision by the United Nations Security Council to block efforts by the United Kingdom, the United States, and France to halt the run-off. The key role was played by South Africa's Ambassador to the UN, Dumisani Khumalo.

28 June, Mugabe declared that trends from the results showed him winning overwhelmingly; he said that he had won in all 26 of the constituencies in Harare, despite the MDC's victory there in the first round.

28 June @nelsonchamisa on the same day that the election was "an unbelievable sham" and "a farce", and he criticised Mbeki for "acting as a shield for a rogue regime"

29 June ZEC announced the results Mugabe polled 2,150,269 votes against 233,000 for Tsvangirai and 131,481 ballots were spoiled. Mugabe was promptly sworn in for another term as President by Chief Justice Chidyausiku at State House about an hour after the announcement of results.