Here is a timeline of events in the British phone-hacking scandal since it emerged on July 4 that the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked.

The ensuing outrage prompted News Corp to close the 168-year-old Sunday tabloid News of the World and drop a $12 billion plan to take full control of BSkyB .

July 4 - A lawyer for Dowler's family says he learned from police her voicemail messages had been hacked, possibly by a News of the World investigator. The hacker had deleted messages on the phone, raising false hopes Dowler could still be alive. Police later say they also contacted the parents of two 10-year-old girls killed in the town of Soham in 2002.

July 5 - News International says new information has been given to police. The BBC says it related to emails appearing to show payments were made to police for information and were authorised by Andy Coulson, former editor of News of the World.

-- The list of those possibly targeted includes victims of the London suicide bombings of July 7, 2005, and the parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007.

July 6 - Rupert Murdoch appoints News Corp executive Joel Klein to oversee an investigation into the hacking allegations.

-- Daily Telegraph says the News of the World hacked the phones of families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

July 7 - News Corp announces it will close down the News of the World. The July 10 edition is the last.

July 8 - Cameron announces two inquiries, one led by a judge on the hacking scandal, another looking at new regulations for the British press.   Continued...