TIMELINE - Kenya in crisis after disputed elections

(Reuters) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga took "fair steps" towards dialogue in their first meeting, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Thursday.

The two leaders had not talked since the December 27 polls.

Here is a chronology of the crisis:

Dec 27 - Voters elect a new president and parliament. Most opinion polls put opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement in the lead.

Dec 30 - The Electoral Commission of Kenya declares Kibaki winner of the presidential election, he is hurriedly sworn in.

- The ODM wins the biggest number of seats in the parliamentary election.

Dec 31 - The government floods the streets with security forces and maintains a ban on live TV broadcasts after riots convulse the nation.

Jan 1 - A mob torches a church, killing about 30 villagers from Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe.

Jan 2 - The government accuses Odinga's backers of "ethnic cleansing" as the death toll from tribal violence rises.