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Updated Timeline: Key Events in the Life of Myanmar’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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Timeline: Key Events in the Life of Myanmar’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi turns 80 on June 19, marking her fifth consecutive birthday in detention since her arrest by junta boss Min Aung Hlaing following the February 2021 military coup.

Despite her imprisonment, her birthdays have never been marked in silence over the past four years. This year, her supporters and Myanmar people around the world are preparing to celebrate her birthday in extraordinary ways.

One of them is the Suu 80 Birthday Wishes campaign organized by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris. The campaign aims to collect 80,000 birthday video messages from around the world to set a Guinness World Record. As of now, the campaign has gathered over 53,000 submissions.

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Supporters have been sharing their memories of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and posting videos of her speeches, as part of the birthday celebrations. Myanmar communities across different countries are also preparing special events to honor her legacy.

On the occasion of her 80th birthday, The Irrawaddy traces some of her formative experiences both prior to and during her political career as Myanmar’s de-facto leader.

JUNE 19, 1945

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is born in Yangon—the third child and only daughter of Daw Khin Kyi and independence hero Aung San. Her father would later be assassinated when she was only two years old.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi / Penguin Books

1949

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi starts her schooling at St. Francis Convent and then Methodist English High School—now Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon—in Yangon.

1960

Fifteen-year-old Daw Aung San Suu Kyi moves to India with her mother, who was appointed Myanmar’s Ambassador to India and Nepal. She completes her education at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in New Delhi. She graduates from Lady Shri Ram College with a degree in politics in 1964.

1964

Headed to the United Kingdom, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi later obtains a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1969 from St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She works as an assistant researcher at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

1969

Twenty-four-year-old Daw Aung San Suu Kyi serves as assistant secretary at the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions at the UN Secretariat in New York.

JANUARY 1, 1972

In New York, 26-year-old Daw Aung San Suu Kyi marries Dr. Michael Aris, a British scholar focused on Bhutan. Together, they move to the country, where Michael worked as a tutor to the royal family, and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi served as a research officer at Bhutan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. One year later, they return to Oxford in the UK, and have their first son, Alexander, in 1973. Their second, Kim, is born in 1977.

1975

Meanwhile, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi works at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, cataloguing Burmese manuscripts.

1985

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi becomes a visiting scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, doing research on Myanmar’s independence movement and her father, Gen Aung San.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi / Penguin Books

1987

In pursuit of a doctoral degree at the School for Oriental and African Studies in London, she wrote a thesis on the role of the media in Myanmar’s independence struggle, from 1910-1945. She was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies in Simla.

AUGUST 26, 1988

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Myanmar—then under the rule of a military junta for more than 25 years—to take care of her ailing mother after Daw Khin Kyi suffers a stroke. She addresses the public in a rally at the western gate of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, marking her entry into politics.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1988

Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), is established and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi serves as the general secretary.

DECEMBER 27, 1988

Daw Khin Kyi passes away. She urges Snr-Gen Saw Maung, Gen Khin Nyunt, Home and Religious Affairs Minister Maj-Gen Phone Myint, to honor the Snr-Gen’s promise to hold free and fair elections and return to a democratic system.

JANUARY 1989

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi travels to Irrawaddy Division to rally public support, and is threatened at gunpoint by soldiers during the trip.

JULY 20, 1989

She is placed under house arrest for the first time.

MAY 27, 1990

The NLD wins a landslide victory in 1990 elections, earning 392 of 447 parliamentary seats.

OCTOBER 14, 1991

While under house arrest, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia. Her husband Michael, and sons Alexander, and Kim Aris accept the award in Oslo, Norway on her behalf. They are allowed to visit her for the first time in August 1993.

Undated picture of Ko Htein Lin and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

FEBRUARY 15, 1994

She receives a delegation led by US Congressman Bill Richardson that includes Jehan Raheem, resident representative of the United National Development Programme, and Philip Shenon of the New York Times. They are the first visitors outside of her family since the house arrest.

AUGUST 7, 1994

Buddhist monk U Rewata Dhamma living in the UK’s Birmingham visits Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her residence in Yangon, paving the way for her meeting with Myanmar’s generals.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1994

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meets ruling Snr-Gen Than Shwe and Secretary-1 Maj-Gen Khin Nyunt of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) at a government guesthouse.

OCTOBER 24, 1994

One month later, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meets military leaders SLORC Secretary-1 Maj-Gen Khin Myint, Judge Advocate General Brig-Gen Than Oo, and Adjutant General Brig-Gen Tin Aye.

JULY 10, 1995

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is released after six years under house arrest—her husband and two sons return to Myanmar to visit her.

SEPTEMBER 1995

She meets with US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright.

NOVEMBER 22, 1995

The NLD releases its declaration in the country’s National Convention, and proceeds to walk out of the event. The convention is later suspended indefinitely.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1996

The military regime bans the NLD from celebrating its eighth anniversary. The Myanmar Army places road blocks along the University Avenue Road where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s house is located.

MARCH 27, 1999

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband of 27 years, Michael Aris, passes away in Oxford after a two-year battle with cancer. While his wife was free to leave the country to be with him, it was understood that if she has left, she would not have been able to return.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2000

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest for a second time.

JANUARY 22, 2002

She meets Snr-Gen Than Shwe

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi stands with Senior General Than Shwe (center) and Major General Khin Nyunt (right) in Yangon in this September 1994 file photograph.

MAY 6, 2002

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is again released, this time after one-and-a-half years of house arrest.

MAY 30, 2003

In an incident that would be later known as the Depayin Massacre, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s convoy of NLD staff and supporters comes under attack by a mob in Sagaing Division’s Depayin Township. Dozens are killed and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is initially jailed in Insein Prison.

MAY 31, 2003

She is sentenced under house arrest for the third time.

MAY 20, 2006

UN undersecretary general for political affairs Ibrahim Gambari meets Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

MAY 25, 2007

Her house arrest is extended for another year. It is extended again in May 2008.

SEPTEMBER 2007

In an anti-government uprising by Buddhist monks now known as the Saffron Revolution, demonstrators in Yangon march past Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s house, where she is detained, and she is able to briefly greet them at the gate.

MAY 3, 2009

US citizen John Yettaw swims through Inya Lake and trespasses into the residence of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, two weeks before her scheduled release from house arrest on May 27. Her detention is extended for 18 more months.

AUGUST 19, 2010

The NLD central executive committee decides to boycott the general elections.

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is released after seven years of house arrest.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with supporters outside her home, where she was placed under house arrest for seven years, in Yangon on Nov. 13, 2010. / AFP

AUGUST 19, 2011

She meets President U Thein Sein for the first time in Naypyidaw.

DECEMBER 2, 2011

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on her visit to Myanmar.

APRIL 1, 2012

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi contests in the country’s by-elections and is elected to the Lower House from Yangon’s Kawhmu Township.

MAY 2012

For the first time in more than 20 years, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi travels outside of Myanmar, to Thailand. Later in the year, she also visits Europe, making stops in the UK, Switzerland, France and Norway.

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on their official visit to Myanmar—an American President’s first trip to the country.

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Fourteen-party discussions are held between President U Thein Sein, Myanmar Army Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and two vice-presidents.

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, center, waves her hand to supporters as she arrives in Nyaung Oo, central Myanmar on Jan. 31, 2012.

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

US President Obama meets Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on his second visit to Myanmar.

APRIL 10, 2015

Six-party talks are held between President U Thein Sein, speakers of two houses, Myanmar Army Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and Dr. Aye Maung, an ethnic Rakhine representative.

NOVEMBER 2015

The NLD wins a landslide victory in general elections.

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Former Snr-Gen Than Shwe and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meet at the former’s residence.

MARCH 30, 2016

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi takes on roles as the head of four ministries in the Cabinet: Foreign Affairs, the President’s Office, Electricity and Energy, and Education.

APRIL 6, 2016

The Union Parliament approves the appointment of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as State Counselor of Myanmar. She retains positions as a minister of foreign affairs and of the President’s Office.

US President Barack Obama and then opposition politician Daw Aung San Suu Kyi hold a press conference after their meeting at her residence in Yangon on Nov. 14, 2014.

AUGUST 24, 2016

Calling it a “most important matter,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi forms an advisory commission on Rakhine State, headed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, to identify “lasting solutions” in addressing violence and ethnoreligious tension in the region. In March 2017, the commission publicizes 30 recommendations for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s government. She later rejects a UN fact-finding mission with a special focus on the region.

AUGUST 31, 2016

Amid ongoing armed conflict in the north of the country, the first session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference convenes in Naypyidaw.

AUGUST 31, 2016

Amid ongoing armed conflict in the north of the country, the first session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference convenes in Naypyidaw.

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the 70th Anniversary of Union Day at Shan State’s Panglong.

MAY 14, 2017

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attends the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in China’s Beijing.

MAY 24, 2017

The second session of the 21st Century Panglong peace conference convenes in Naypyidaw, with signatories to the nationwide ceasefire serving as “full participants,” and non-signatories invited as “special guests,” with many of the latter opting out. Representatives of the government, Parliament, Myanmar Army, political parties, and participating ethnic armed groups agree to 37 out of 41 basic principles—excluding issues of non-secession from the Union, equality, federalism, and self-determination. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calls it “a significant step” toward a future Union.

DECEMBER 10-12, 2019

A delegation led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi defends Myanmar at the International Court of Justice against a lawsuit filed by Gambia over the genocide of the Rohingya.

Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Dec. 11, the second day of hearings in a case filed by The Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. / Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Facebook

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The NLD wins a landslide victory in the general election. A total of 27 million people cast votes in the election, and the NLD wins 82 percent of the seats up for grabs. The international community also recognizes the election results.

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint, ministers of the NLD government and senior members of the party are detained as the Myanmar military led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing stages a coup over alleged electoral fraud.

Elected lawmakers of the 2020 general election form the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on Feb. 5. Subsequently, a shadow government, known as the National Unity Government (NUG) emerges on April 16. The shadow government is made up of ethnic politicians, activists and intellectuals. Mass protests call for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

In a statement released by the NLD immediately after the coup, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi urges people not to accept the coup, and to respond by wholeheartedly protesting against it. In a handwritten note at the bottom, U Win Htein stresses that the statement is genuine and was made by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Prepared ahead of time in case of such a scenario, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s request has had an impact on the anti-coup movement.

NLD supporters celebrate the party’s victory at its headquarters in Yangon on Nov. 8, 2020 as initial vote counts showed it leading other parties. / The Irrawaddy

MAY 24, 2021

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is put on trial in person in Naypyitaw, three months and eight days after  her first court hearing was held via videoconferencing on Feb. 16. She subsequently faces an array of trumped-up charges.

JULY 26, 2021

The junta-appointed Union Election Commission nullifies the result of the 2020 general election, denying the NLD its landslide election victory.

MAY 24, 2022

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi passes a message through her legal team that the NLD was established for the people, so the party will be there as long as the people are.

JUNE 22, 2022

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been kept under house arrest until this time, is sent to Naypyitaw Prison three days after turning 77. Her aides are not allowed to assist her in prison.

AUGUST 17, 2022

United Nations special envoy on Myanmar Noleen Heyzer meets Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw during her first trip to Myanmar. Her request to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is denied. Before Heyzer, ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar Prak Sokhonn visited Myanmar twice and also failed to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

This handout photo taken on May 24, 2021 and released by Myanmar’s Ministry of Information on May 26 shows detained civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (left) and detained President U Win Myint (right) during their first court appearance in Naypyitaw since the military detained them in a coup on Feb. 1. / AFP

AUGUST 22, 2022

The junta-controlled Supreme Court rules in favor of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s elder brother U Aung San Oo in a bitter family dispute between the siblings, approving a petition from U Aung San Oo to auction the family home and share the proceeds.

The lakeside villa in Yangon is where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was held under house arrest for 15 years by the previous military regime.

NOVEMBER 2022

The junta arranges for three NLD members including Central Executive Committee member Daw Sandar Min to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw Prison. It is reported that Daw Sandar Min sought her jailed boss’ permission to reopen NLD offices, re-register for the junta’s proposed election, and contest the vote. Daw Sandar Min, however, tells the media that she explained what was happening outside, and that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi did not offer any comment.

The junta arranges another meeting between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and two members of the NLD Central Executive Committee in March 2023 but she refuses to meet them.

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A string of legal cases filed against the ousted State Counselor since the coup ends with a court session held behind closed doors in Naypyitaw handing her seven years for alleged corruption. The 77-year-old now faces a total of 33 years behind bars.

MARCH 28, 2023

The Myanmar junta dissolves 40 political parties including the NLD and Shan Nationalities League for Democracy that refused to register for the regime’s proposed poll.

Protesters hold up pictures of detained Myanmar civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and wish for her good health during a demonstration outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Bangkok on Dec. 19, 2022. / AFP

JUNE 8, 2023

Pro-junta Buddhist monk U Ottamathara, the head of the Thabawa (Nature) Meditation Center in Yangon’s Thanlyin Township, visits NLD patron U Tin Oo on June 8, and suggested that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should leave politics and cooperate with the military regime to achieve peace in Myanmar.

JUNE 12, 2023

It is reported that the junta’s deputy prime minister and home affairs minister, Lieutenant General Soe Htut, its chief peace negotiator, Lieutenant General Yar Pyae, and retired Lieutenant General Khin Zaw Oo met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw Prison.

Junta spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun later denies any such meeting took place, adding that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains in Naypyitaw Prison.

JULY 9, 2023

Outgoing Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai is granted a private meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, despite the military regime previously denying access to ASEAN and UN special envoys. Arguably, Thailand has the closest ties with Myanmar military leaders among the ASEAN nations.

The meeting reportedly takes place at Naypyitaw Prison, where the jailed civilian leader is being held, and lasts for one-and-a-half hours.

Neither the Myanmar junta nor the Thai government have issued a detailed statement about Don’s meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Don disclosed nothing except that the jailed civilian leader was in good shape and that they had a constructive conversation.

His visit marked the first known diplomatic meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi since the military coup in 2021. The meeting came ahead of an ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Jakarta, where Don conveyed that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed concerns over Myanmar’s economic decline and the hardships faced by its people over the previous two years.

Several high-ranking officials from Asian nations had previously requested permission to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, but such meetings were always denied until Don’s visit, as the junta continues to restrict diplomatic access.

JANUARY 25, 2024

With Daw Aung San Suu Kyi being held in Naypyitaw Prison, the Kamayut Township Court in Yangon rules that the jailed civilian leader’s historic residence at 54 University Avenue is to be auctioned off.

The auction took place on March 20, 2024, following a ruling by Myanmar’s junta-controlled Supreme Court in favor of U Aung San Oo, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s estranged brother, in a long-standing legal dispute over the property.

The ownership dispute between the siblings dates back to the era of former dictator Than Shwe. As the major opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi spent years under house arrest at the residence during his rule. However, Than Shwe’s successor Min Aung Hlaing put her behind bars on an array of fabricated charges following his 2021 coup.

Initially, the floor price was set at 315 billion kyats (around US$90 million) at the first auction in March 2024. It was lowered to 270 billion kyats at the latest auction in April 2025, but still failed to attract bids.

The parallel National Unity Government declared the residence a national-level cultural heritage site in September 2022. The civilian government warned it would take legal action against anyone seeking to own, sell, destroy, alter, or otherwise use the property.

The lakeside villa is not just a residence—it holds immense historical value. It was the house where Daw Khin Kyi, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother and wife of independence hero General Aung San, lived until her death. It was a symbol of dissent during decades of military rule in Myanmar. It was also the venue where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi received international dignitaries including then-US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the short-lived democratic rule in Myanmar—one of the factors deterring potential buyers.

An auction official reads a statement outside the gate of the family home of detained Myanmar civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon on April 29, 2025, during a fourth unsuccessful attempt to sell the lakeside mansion. / AFP

MARCH 28, 2025

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the most devastating in Myanmar’s modern history, strikes central Myanmar, causing heavy casualties and widespread destruction. Naypyitaw, the junta’s nerve center, is hit hard by the earthquake, raising concerns about the well-being of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned there for four years.

The disaster claimed over 3,700 lives, with Naypyitaw suffering the second-highest number of casualties after Mandalay. Many feared for the safety of the 80-year-old. While the military junta remained silent about her condition, reports indicated that she was not affected by the earthquake and remained in her original location, with food and other essential items continuing to be delivered to her as usual.

Her son, Kim Aris, stated that the earthquake did not cause severe damage to the prison where she is being held.

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