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Info Only 80 Sep 22 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Iran-Iraq war began
Info Only 80 Nov 4 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reagan elected US President
Info Only 81 Jan 5 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reshuffle: Stevas, Maude left cabinet; Biffen to Trade, Nott to Defence, Pym to lead House of Commons; Brittan joined as Chief Secretary, Fowler at Transport
Info Only 81 Feb 10 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] NCB announced pit closures (abandoned 18 Feb)
Info Only 81 Mar 1 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Northern Ireland: second Republican hunger strike began (ended 3 Oct with ten deaths)
Info Only 81 Mar 10 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 81 Mar 26 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] SDP formed (Alliance formed 16 June)
Info Only 81 Sep 14 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reshuffle: Soames, Gilmour, Carlisle dropped; Prior moved to Northern Ireland; Tebbit joined Cabinet to replace him at Employment; Lawson joined Cabinet (Energy); Parkinson became Party Chairman
Info Only 81 Nov 26 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Crosby by-election: Shirley Williams won Conservative seat for SDP
Info Only 82 Mar 9 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 83 Jan 6 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reshuffle: Heseltine replaced Nott at Defence
Info Only 83 Mar 15 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 83 Mar 23 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reagan announced Star Wars programme (SDI)
Info Only 83 May 9 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] General Election announced for 9 Jun
Info Only 83 Jun 9 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] 1983 General Election: Conservative majority 144
Info Only 83 Jun 11 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] New Government formed
Info Only 83 Oct 14 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Cecil Parkinson resigned over Keays affair
Info Only 83 Oct 25 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] US invasion of Grenada
Info Only 84 Mar 12 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Coal strike began
Info Only 84 Mar 13 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 84 Jun 25 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Fontainebleau European Council (ended 26 Jun); budget settlement
Info Only 84 Oct 12 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Brighton bomb
Info Only 84 Nov 6 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reagan reelected US President
Info Only 84 Nov 20 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Flotation of British Telecom
Info Only 84 Dec 16 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Gorbachev visited Chequers
Info Only 84 Dec 19 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Hong Kong: MT signed Joint Agreement with China
Info Only 85 Mar 3 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] NUM voted to end coal strike
Info Only 85 Mar 19 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 85 Sep 2 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reshuffle: Hurd replace Brittan at Home Office; Tebbit new Party Chairman; Jenkin replaced as Environment Secretary by Baker
Info Only 85 Nov 15 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough
Info Only 85 Dec 2 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Luxembourg European Council; Single European Act agreed (ended 3 Dec)
Info Only 86 Jan 6 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Westland: leak of Solicitor-General’s letter to Heseltine
Info Only 86 Jan 9 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Westland: Heseltine resigned; Younger replaced him at Defence; Rifkind joined the Cabinet as Scottish Secretary
Info Only 86 Jan 24 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Westland: Brittan resigned; Channon replaced him at DTI
Info Only 86 Jan 27 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Westland: emergency debate, ending the crisis
Info Only 86 May 18 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 86 Apr 15 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] US air raids on Libya, mainly flown from British bases
Info Only 86 Oct 11 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (ended 12 Oct)
Info Only 86 Nov 15 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Anglo-US Summit at Camp David: arms control statement agreed
Info Only 87 Feb 22 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] "Louvre Accord" to halt decline in the dollar; Lawson began shadowing Deutschmark
Info Only 87 Mar 17 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 87 Mar 28 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT visited USSR (ended 1 Apr)
Info Only 87 May 11 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] General Election called for 11 June
Info Only 87 Jun 11 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] General Election
Info Only 87 Jun 13 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reshuffle: five ministers left cabinet
Info Only 87 Oct 19 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] "Black Monday": Dow Jones fell 23 per cent
Info Only 88 Feb 8 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan from May
Info Only 88 Mar 7 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Sterling `uncapped’ on MT’s insistence; rose above 3DM
Info Only 88 Mar 15 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 88 May 17 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 8 to 7.5 per cent (lowest 1979-90); MT formula of support for Lawson at PQs
Info Only 89 Jan 11 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] NHS White Paper published ( Working for Patients )
Info Only 89 Mar 14 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 89 Jun 3 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] China: Tiananmen Square massacre
Info Only 89 Jun 20 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT met Howe and Lawson to discuss ERM line at Madrid Council (met again 25 Jun)
Info Only 89 Jun 26 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Madrid European Council (ended 27 Jun): MT set "Madrid conditions" for ERM entry; rejected Social Charter
Info Only 89 Jul 24 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Reshuffle: Major replaced Howe at Foreign Office; Howe new Deputy PM; Ridley went to DTI, Patten replacing him at Environment
Info Only 89 Nov 9 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] East Germany announced opening of its border with West Germany; demolition of Berlin Wall began 10 Nov
Info Only 89 Dec 5 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT won Conservative leadership election; 314:33 (27 abstained)
Info Only 89 Dec 10 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Czechoslovakia: end of Communist rule (Havel President 29 Dec)
Info Only 89 Dec 22 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Romania: Ceausescu overthrown (killed 25 Dec)
Info Only 90 Feb 10 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Kohl in Moscow: Gorbachev agreed German reunification
Info Only 90 Mar 11 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Lithuania declared independence of USSR
Info Only 90 Mar 20 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Budget
Info Only 90 Mar 31 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Trafalgar Square riot
Info Only 90 Apr 1 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Strangeways prison siege (ended 25 Apr); disturbances in other gaols
Info Only 90 Jul 14 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Ridley resigned over comments on Germany; Lilley joined Cabinet to succeed him at DTI
Info Only 90 Aug 2 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Iraq invaded Kuwait; MT with Bush in Aspen
Info Only 90 Aug 9 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] UK announced commitment of forces to the Gulf
Info Only 90 Oct 3 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] German reunification
Info Only 90 Oct 5 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Britain joined ERM; announcement that interest rates would be reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent
Info Only 90 Nov 1 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Howe resigned
Info Only 90 Nov 13 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] HC: Howe’s resignation speech
Info Only 90 Nov 14 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Heseltine stood for Conservative leadership
Info Only 90 Nov 20 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Conservative leadership election first ballot (MT 204:152 Heseltine)
Info Only 90 Nov 22 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT announced decision not to contest second ballot
Info Only 90 Nov 27 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Conservative leadership election second ballot; Major became leader
Info Only 90 Nov 28 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT resigned as Prime Minister
Info Only 79 Jan 10 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Callaghan's return from Guadelope Summit: "Crisis, What Crisis?" ( Sun )
Info Only 87 Nov 17 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Community Charge: "dual running" with rates abandoned
Info Only 87 Oct 23 Fr Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 10 to 9.5 per cent, following Black Monday
Info Only 90 Oct 27 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Rome European Council (ended 28 Oct)
Info Only 83 Oct 22 Sa Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Grenada: Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States requested US intervene (following coup 19 Oct)
Info Only 89 Oct 26 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Lawson resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Major succeeded him; Hurd became Foreign Secretary; Waddington succeeded Hurd as Home Secretary; Renton became Chief Whip
Info Only 91 Feb 24 Su Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Ground war began in Kuwait
Info Only 91 Feb 27 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Kuwait liberated; ceasefire
Info Only 91 Jan 16 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Air campaign launched against Iraq ("Desert Storm")
Info Only 61 Oct 9 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary (Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance)
Info Only 88 Jul 6 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Jacques Delors told European Parliament that in ten years 80 per cent of economic and social legislation would be made there rather than at national level
Info Only 88 Sep 8 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Jacques Delors addressed TUC Conference & invited them to join "the architects of Europe"
Info Only 75 Apr 9 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] MT met Ronald Reagan for the first time (or possibly the second)
Info Only 90 Aug 2 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] UN Security Council Resolution 660 condemns Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Info Only 90 Oct 8 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent
Info Only 81 Mar 11 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 2 per cent, from 14 to 12 per cent
Info Only 80 Nov 25 Tu Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 2 per cent, from 16 to 14 per cent
Info Only 80 Jul 3 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 17 to 16 per cent
Info Only 79 Nov 15 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates increased 3 per cent, from 14 to 17 per cent (all time high); gilt strike
Info Only 79 Jun 13 We Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates increased 2 per cent, from 12 to 14 per cent
Info Only 79 Apr 5 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 13 to 12 per cent
Info Only 79 Mar 1 Th Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 14 to 13 per cent
Info Only 91 Dec 9 Mo Chronology ★★★★ [Chronology] Maastricht European Council (ended 10 Dec)
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