Charles Taylor timeline
- 1948 - Born in Arthington, Liberia
- 1983 - Flees Liberia after being accused of embezzling nearly $1m. Detained in the US on a Liberian arrest warrant, but later escapes.
- 1989 - Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia rebel group launches armed uprising in Liberia
- 1991-2002 - Sierra Leone civil war
- 1997 - Elected Liberia's president
- 2003 - Special Court for Sierra Leone indicts Taylor on charges including murder, rape, sexual slavery and conscripting child soldiers
- 2003 - Resigns and flies into exile in Nigeria
- March 2006 - Disappears after Nigeria agrees that he should stand trial
- March 2006 - Arrested as he tries to cross border from Nigeria to Cameroon
- June 2006 - Transferred to UN detention block in The Hague to await trial
- June 2007 - Trial starts
- August 2010 - Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow give evidence at Taylor's trial
- Today - Verdict due