The main events

9.30am fly-past over the flotilla

10.45am Colleville-Montgomery: Normandy Veterans Association pays homage to Field Marshal Montgomery near Sword Beach. Prince of Wales attends parade, memorial service and march-past

12.30pm Pegasus Bridge: Prince of Wales unveils replica of a HORSA glider at the Pegasus Memorial Museum. Special commemoration for six British Airborne divisions that took part in D-Day. ITV coverage 12.30pm to 12.55pm

1.45pm Ranville Dropzone: drop of British and Canadian paratroopers

3pm Battle of Britain Memorial: mass poppy-drop over ships off Ouistreham.

3.30pm Caen: welcome of warships from Portsmouth into Caen harbour . ITV coverage

3.45pm-5.05pm. At 4pm veterans, Prince of Wales and Chiefs of Staff to attend opening of British Garden of Remembrance. Followed by Beating of Retreat

9pm Pegasus Bridge: marchpast followed by Ox and Bucks veterans, celebrating exact anniversary of their landing Sunday, 7am Colleville-Montgomery: wreath-laying at Field Marshal Montgomery monument and war graves

8.15am Bayeux: Royal British Legion service of remembrance at Bayeux Cathedral. Live coverage on BBC1 9am-11am. ITV coverage 9.55am-11.00am.

9am Courseulles-Sur-Mer: Queen attends ceremony of remembrance at Juno Beach

10am Bayeux: official ceremony at Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. Attended by veterans, President Chirac and the Queen

11.40am Caen: lunch for heads of state at the Hotel de Ville

12.15pm Arromanches: main international event, with Tony Blair, George Bush, Jacques Chirac, the Queen and Vladimir Putin. Veterans' march past and parade. Live coverage on BBC1

1.50pm-6.10pm. ITV coverage

1.00pm-1.25pm and 4.15pm-2.20pm: heads of state arrive.

2.30pm: presentation of Legion d'Honneur and address by President Chirac. Naval review offshore, and fly-pasts.

5pm: Normandy Veterans Association parade