TIMELINE: Financial crisis in October

(Reuters) - Here is a chronology of the global financial crisis in October:

October 2 - Irish lawmakers vote to enact radical legislation guaranteeing Irish bank deposits and debts up to a total of 400 billion euros ($554 billion).

October 3 - The U.S. House of Representatives passes a revised $700 billion U.S. bailout plan which will take toxic mortgage assets off financial companies.

-- Wells Fargo & Co says it has agreed to buy Wachovia Corp

for about $16 billion, thwarting a planned Citigroup Inc deal announced on September 29. However, Citigroup wins a court order on October 4 blocking the deal until the court rules otherwise. The two remain locked in an intense battle.

-- The Dutch government buys Fortis for 16.8 billion euros ($23.28 billion). Belgium and Luxembourg scramble the next day to find a buyer for the remainder of the company.

October 5 - Germany pledges to guarantee private deposit accounts. Germany also clinches a revised rescue deal for lender Hypo Real Estate after banks and insurers pulled out of a state-led 35 billion euros ($48.5 billion) rescue program.

October 6 - France's BNP Paribas scoops up the assets of Fortis in Belgium and Luxembourg for 14.5 billion euros ($19.71 billion) to stem a cash drain on Fortis and Dexia.

October 8 - The U.S. Fed leads a coordinated, global round of emergency interest rate cuts.

-- Britain offers to pump at least 50 billion pounds ($87.2 billion) into its biggest retail banks to help them survive.

October 9 - Iceland, whose prime minister warned of "national bankruptcy," takes control of its biggest bank, Kaupthing, the third major Icelandic bank to be taken over by the state.

October 10 - Japan's Nikkei tumbles nearly 10 percent, registering its biggest one-day drop since 1987.

-- Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven meet in Washington and pledge to prevent big banks from collapse and to work together to stem the crisis. The International Monetary Fund backs the G7 plan the next day.

October 12 - European leaders meeting in Paris rush out plans to help banks through the crisis.

October 13 - Britain wades in with 37 billion pounds ($64 billion) of taxpayers' cash for three major banks -- Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB.

October 14 - Japan joins the global push, saying it could inject public funds into regional banks. The Nikkei surges more than 14 percent -- the biggest one-day gain in its history.