CHRONOLOGY-Bumpy road to restoring self-rule in Northern Ireland

(Reuters) - Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic leaders launched a new power-sharing government on Tuesday, aiming to put a final end to violence.

Following are events since the 1998 Good Friday agreement largely ended 30 years of sectarian conflict.

1998:

June - Elections to a new Protestant-Catholic power-sharing assembly. Protestant Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader David Trimble is elected First Minister-designate.

August - Car bomb in the market town of Omagh, west of Belfast, kills 29 people in the worst single attack of the conflict. The Real IRA splinter group claims responsibility.

1999:

December - Northern Ireland gets its own government in which Protestants and Catholics share power after 27 years of direct rule from London.

2000:

February - Britain suspends assembly amid anger by Protestants, who support ties to Britain, over the failure of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrillas to disarm.