TIMELINE - Hain resigns after funding row

LONDON (Reuters) - Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain resigned on Thursday in a row over campaign funding -- the first cabinet loss for Prime Minister Gordon Brown whose popularity is waning badly.

Here is a timeline of the donations row.

Sept 2006 - Various candidates including then Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain announce they will stand for deputy leader of the Labour Party once current deputy leader John Prescott stands down along with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

May 2007 - Nationwide hustings for the six deputy leadership candidates begin.

June 24 - Justice Minister Harriet Harman wins deputy leadership, with Hain coming fifth out of six candidates.

Nov - Revelations emerge that property developer David Abrahams donated 600,000 pounds to Labour through intermediaries, possibly breaching law which requires people donating on the half of others to disclose the source of the money.

Labour's general secretary Peter Watt resigns after admitting he knew about the donations.

Harriet Harman says she received a 5,000 pound donation from Abrahams for the deputy leadership campaign through a go-between but was acting in good faith.

Nov 29 - Police are asked to investigate donations row by the Electoral Commission, parliament's watchdog for political funding. Hain said he failed to register a 5,000 pound donation by Labour's chief fundraiser due to administrative error.

Jan 10 - Hain said he actually failed to declare more than 100,000 pounds of donations to his campaign, saying he was distracted by his government responsibilities and the Northern Ireland peace process and blaming poor administration by his campaign team.

Jan 11 - Conservative party deputy leader David Davies makes an official complaint to Parliamentary sleaze watchdog, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, over Hain.

Jan 12 - Hain says there was no attempt to mislead and that he will not resign.

Jan 16 - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Hain is guilty of "an incompetence", not corruption. Conservatives say chaos is spreading to his department.

Jan 24 - Hain resigns from Cabinet after the electoral watchdog refers the donations issue to the police for investigation.