22 April 1938 - Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, popularly called Gani, is born in Ondo State.
1947 - 1953 - Gani has his early education at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Iyemaja.
1954 - 1958 - Attends Victory College Ikare, a Christian School under the leadership of the Late Rev. Akinrele where he sits for and passes his West African School Certificate Examination in 1958.
8 December1958 - He is given a letter to his late father by the principal of the college, Rev. Akinrele. In it, the principal advises that Gani must be encouraged to study Law as a profession.
January 1959 - He moves to Lagos to live with his uncle, the late Mr. Olu Akinfe. He gets his first job as a Clerk in the High Court, Lagos.
29 April1961 - He leaves Nigeria by sea on the M. V. Aureol Passenger Ship for the United Kingdom.
12 May1961 - He arrives in Liverpool and travels by train to London arriving at Victoria Station in the evening of that day.
September 1961 - He enrolls in the Holborn College of Law for the LLB degree of the University of London (External).
5 February1963 - His father dies. The death leaves him with no financial source. He is forced by financial circumstance to drop out of the Holborn College as a full time student.
February 1963 - August 1964 - He takes a full time job as a toilet cleaner in Russell Square Hotel in Southampton Row, London. He did other cleaning jobs which included working as a sweeper in the old Gatwick Airport. He literally teaches himself Law for parts II and III of the LLB degree course and sits for and passes all his examinations.
September 1964 - He returns to Nigeria. On his arrival in Lagos, he enrolls in the Nigerian Law School in Lagos for a compulsory three months course which he successfully completed.
15 January, 1965 - He is called to the Nigerian Bar.
1986 - While Gani Fawehinmi is the late Dele Giwa's lawyer, the latter is killed in a bomb blast under suspicious circumstances.
1993 - Gani is awarded the biennial Bruno Kreisky Prize. The prize, named in honour of Bruno Kreisky, is awarded to international figures who advance human rights causes.
1994 - He and some other notable Nigerians form the National Conscience Party of Nigeria which exists till today.
26 August, 1994 - His office at Anthony Village is violently attacked and invaded by persons suspected to be government security agents.
1998 - Receives the International Bar Association's Bernard Simmons Award in recognition of his human-rights and pro-democracy work.
September 2001 - Gani becomes a holder of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) the highest legal title in Nigeria.
2003 - He contests the presidential election under the umbrella of the National Conscience Party.
2008 - Gani rejects an honour by the Nigeria government - Order of the Federal Republic(OFR) - in protest of the country's misrule since independence.
23 April 2008 - Punch newspaper reports that Gani's daughter, Rabiat, confirmed in an interview on April 22 that the lawyer was diagnosed of having lung cancer and seeks medical care in London.
5 September 2009 - Dies at Lister Hospital, a private hospital in Ikeja, Lagos.