CORRECTED - TIMELINE-Honduras crisis heads to next round of talks
(Updates, corrects date of OAS suspension of Honduras to July 4)
July 15 (Reuters) - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has asked the two rival sides in Honduras' political crisis to take part in a fresh round of mediation talks in his country's capital on Saturday.
The talks, following a fruitless initial round last week, will try to find a possible breakthrough compromise to defuse the power dispute created by the June 28 coup in the Central American state, which deposed President Manuel Zelaya.
Honduras' military deposed and expelled Zelaya from the country last month after the Congress and Supreme Court accused him of violating the constitution by trying to lift limits on presidential terms. Congress appointed its head, Roberto Micheletti, to replace Zelaya.
Here is a timeline of events since the coup:
June 28, 2009 - Soldiers arrest President Manuel Zelaya in a pre-dawn raid on his home and expel him in his nightwear on a flight to Costa Rica.
-- The Honduran Congress names an interim president, Roberto Micheletti. The Supreme Court says it ordered the army to remove Zelaya.
-- The European Union condemns what it calls a "coup d'etat" against Zelaya.
-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an ally of Zelaya, puts his troops on alert and says he will respond militarily if his ambassador to the Central American country is kidnapped or killed.
June 29 - U.S. President Barack Obama says the coup is illegal and will set a "terrible precedent" of transition by military force unless it is reversed.
-- At a meeting in the Nicaraguan capital Managua, leftist Latin American countries say they will withdraw their ambassadors from Honduras.
June 30 - The United Nations General Assembly calls on its member states to recognize only the Zelaya government and no other. Zelaya says he has vowed to return to Honduras.
July 1 - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says Zelaya's overthrow sets a dangerous precedent and will not be accepted by the rest of Latin America.
July 4 - The Organization of American States (OAS) meets in Washington and suspends Honduras after the interim authorities ignore an ultimatum to reinstate Zelaya.
July 5 - At least one pro-Zelaya protestor is killed and two wounded in clashes at Tegucigalpa's airport as Honduran troops block an attempt by Zelaya to return home in a plane provided by Chavez. Zelaya lands in Managua instead.
-- The Organization of American States (OAS) meets in Washington and suspends Honduras after the interim authorities ignore an ultimatum to reinstate Zelaya.
-- Honduras' interim government tells the OAS it wants to start talks.
July 6 - The United States condemns violence against protesters in Honduras and calls for Zelaya's reinstatement.
July 7 - Both Micheletti and Zelaya accept Costa Rican President Oscar Arias as a mediator to try to solve the crisis.
July 8 - The U.S. government suspends $16.5 million in military assistance programs to Honduras. It added that a further $180 million in aid could also be at risk.
July 9 - Micheletti leaves Costa Rica after holding talks with Arias, the mediator, but he does not meet Zelaya face to face to discuss the crisis. Delegations from the two rival sides are left to continue the discussions.
July 10 - Arias announces that the two sides have agreed to continue talks.
-- Chavez says Zelaya is planning to return to Honduras "by water, air or land.
July 11 - Around 1,000 Hondurans march to Tegucigalpa airport to remember the clashes and victims from July 5, in a protest attended by Zelaya's wife, Xiomara.
July 12 - Honduras' interim government lifts the curfew.
July 13 - Ousted President Zelaya issues ultimatum to Micheletti to agree to reinstate him immediately at the next round of talks, or he will consider the dialogue mediated by Arias "failed" and pursue other actions to return to power.
July 14 - United States urges rival sides in Honduras' political crisis to give talks a chance.
July 15 - Costa Rican officials say high-level delegations from both sides due to take part in next round of talks to be mediated by Arias in Costa Rica on Saturday, July 18.
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