2007
– Might 3: Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, go away their youngsters asleep of their vacation condominium in Praia da Luz in southern Portugal whereas they dine with buddies at a close-by tapas restaurant.
Nothing is amiss when Mr McCann checks on the children simply after 9pm, however when his spouse goes again at about 10pm she finds Madeleine lacking.
Jane Tanner, one of many buddies eating with the McCanns, experiences having seen a person carrying a baby earlier that evening.
– Might 14: Detectives take Anglo-Portuguese property developer Robert Murat in for questioning and make him an ‘arguido’, or formal suspect, however that is later withdrawn.
– August 11: Precisely 100 days after Madeleine disappeared, investigating officers publicly acknowledge for the primary time that she could possibly be lifeless.
– September 7: Throughout questioning of Mr and Mrs McCann, detectives make them each ‘arguidos’ of their daughter’s disappearance.
– September 9: The McCanns fly again to England with their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
2008
– July 21: The Portuguese authorities shelve their investigation and carry the ‘arguido’ standing of the McCanns and Mr Murat.
2011
– Might 12: Mrs McCann publishes a e book about her daughter’s disappearance, on Madeleine’s eighth birthday.
Scotland Yard launches a evaluation of the case after a request from house secretary Theresa Might, supported by prime minister David Cameron.
2012
– April 25: Scotland Yard detectives say they imagine Madeleine may nonetheless be alive, launch an age-progression image of how she would possibly look as a nine-year-old, and name on the Portuguese authorities to reopen the case, however Portuguese police say they’ve discovered no new materials.
2013
– July 4: Scotland Yard confirms it has launched its personal investigation, Operation Grange, into Madeleine’s disappearance two years right into a evaluation of the case. It has ‘genuinely new’ strains of inquiry and has recognized 38 folks of curiosity, together with 12 Britons.
– October 24: Portuguese police verify {that a} evaluation of their unique investigation has uncovered new strains of inquiry, they usually reopen the case.
2014
– January 29: British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they’re planning to make arrests.
– June 3: Sniffer canine and specialist groups are used to go looking an space of scrubland near the place Madeleine went lacking.
– December 12: Detectives start questioning 11 individuals who it’s thought could have info on the case.
2015
– September 16: The Authorities discloses that the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine has value greater than £10 million.
– October 28: Scotland Yard cuts the variety of officers engaged on the inquiry from 29 to 4.
2017
– April 30: The McCanns put together to mark 10 years since their daughter’s disappearance with a BBC interview by which they vow to do ‘no matter it takes for so long as it takes’ to search out her.
2019
– Might 3: Native media experiences say Portuguese detectives are investigating a overseas paedophile as a suspect within the abduction of Madeleine.
2020
– June 3: Police reveal a 43-year-old German prisoner, later named as Christian Brueckner, has been recognized as a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance.
– June 4: Scotland Yard’s Operation Grange, which had obtained £12.3 million in funding as much as April 2020, remains to be a lacking individual inquiry as detectives don’t have any ‘definitive proof whether or not Madeleine is alive or lifeless’.
2021
– Might 4: Kate and Gerry McCann publish an announcement on the official Discover Madeleine marketing campaign web site saying they nonetheless cling to the hope of seeing their daughter once more as they put together to mark her 18th birthday on Might 12.
2022
– April 21: Brueckner is made an ‘arguido’, a proper suspect, by Portuguese authorities.
– Might 3: The McCann household say it’s ‘important’ they study the reality of what occurred to their daughter on the fifteenth anniversary of her disappearance.
– October 11: Brueckner, now 45, is charged with three counts of rape and two costs of kid intercourse abuse, unrelated to Madeleine’s disappearance.
2023
– Might 3: Kate and Gerry McCann mark the sixteenth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance by saying she is ‘nonetheless very a lot missed’ and that they ‘await a breakthrough’.
– Might 22: An space close to the Barragem do Arade reservoir, about 30 miles from Praia da Luz, is sealed off as police put together to begin looking out.
– Might 23: Searches start with police divers within the water, and groups together with officers with sniffer canine and rakes and steel poles are seen engaged on the banks. Media and onlookers are stored a mile away from the principle search space and a no-fly zone is imposed over the water.
2024
– February 16: Brueckner goes on trial for 3 counts of rape and two costs of kid intercourse abuse at a courtroom in Brunswick, Germany.
– October 8: Brueckner is acquitted of all costs.