30 January 1938 -- Born in Samarkand

Married, two daughters

1960 -- Completes Central Asian Polytechnic Institute, specialized in engineering-mechanics

1960 -- Starts work as an assistant foreman, then foreman at Tashselmash (agricultural machinery plant)

1961-66 -- Engineer, construction worker, chief engineer at Tashkent aviation manufacturing plant

1966-83 -- -- Chief departmental specialist, assistant chairman, departmental head, branch head, deputy and then first deputy chairman in the Uzbek SSR Gosplan committee

1967 -- Completes Tashkent Institute of Agriculture, specializing in economics

1986 -- First secretary of the Kashkadarya party oblast committee

1986-89 -- Completes Tashkent Institute of Agriculture, specializing in economics

June 1989 -- First secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR

24 March 1990 -- Supreme Soviet session elects Karimov president of the Uzbek SSR

1990-91 -- Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the USSR

29 December 1991 -- Elected president of the Republic of Uzbekistan, defeats opponent Mohammad Solih 26 March 1995 -- Referendum extends Karimov's term in office until 2000 9 January 2000 -- Reelected president, defeating opponent Abdulkhafiz Jalolov of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan 27 January 2002 -- Referendum extends Karimov's term in office until 2007