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80 Sep 22 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Iran-Iraq war began |
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80 Nov 4 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reagan elected US President |
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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 |
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81 Feb 10 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | NCB announced pit closures (abandoned 18 Feb) |
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81 Mar 1 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: second Republican hunger strike began (ended 3 Oct with ten deaths) |
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81 Mar 10 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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81 Mar 26 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | SDP formed (Alliance formed 16 June) |
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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 |
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81 Nov 26 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Crosby by-election: Shirley Williams won Conservative seat for SDP |
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82 Mar 9 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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82 Mar 31 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Argentine invasion learned to be imminent - likely to be Friday; MT evening meeting at her room in House of Commons |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Argentina invaded the islands |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: UN SCR 502 demanding Argentine withdrawal |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: FCO Ministers resigned, Pym new Foreign Secretary; Task Force sailed |
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82 Apr 25 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: South Georgia recaptured |
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82 Apr 30 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: US `tilt’ in favour of Britain; Total Exclusion Zone put in force |
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82 May 4 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: HMS Sheffield hit by Argentine missile |
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82 May 21 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: British Forces landed at San Carlos Bay |
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82 Jun 14 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Argentine surrender |
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83 Jan 6 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reshuffle: Heseltine replaced Nott at Defence |
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83 Mar 15 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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83 Mar 23 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reagan announced Star Wars programme (SDI) |
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83 May 9 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | General Election announced for 9 Jun |
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83 Jun 9 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | 1983 General Election: Conservative majority 144 |
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83 Jun 11 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | New Government formed |
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83 Oct 14 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Cecil Parkinson resigned over Keays affair |
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83 Oct 25 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | US invasion of Grenada |
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84 Mar 12 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Coal strike began |
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84 Mar 13 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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84 Jun 25 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Fontainebleau European Council (ended 26 Jun); budget settlement |
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84 Oct 12 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Brighton bomb |
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84 Nov 6 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reagan reelected US President |
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84 Nov 20 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Flotation of British Telecom |
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84 Dec 16 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Gorbachev visited Chequers |
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84 Dec 19 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Hong Kong: MT signed Joint Agreement with China |
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85 Mar 3 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | NUM voted to end coal strike |
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85 Mar 19 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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85 Sep 2 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reshuffle: Hurd replace Brittan at Home Office; Tebbit new Party Chairman; Jenkin replaced as Environment Secretary by Baker |
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85 Nov 15 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough |
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85 Dec 2 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Luxembourg European Council; Single European Act agreed (ended 3 Dec) |
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86 Jan 6 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Westland: leak of Solicitor-General’s letter to Heseltine |
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86 Jan 9 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Westland: Heseltine resigned; Younger replaced him at Defence; Rifkind joined the Cabinet as Scottish Secretary |
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86 Jan 24 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Westland: Brittan resigned; Channon replaced him at DTI |
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86 Jan 27 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Westland: emergency debate, ending the crisis |
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86 May 18 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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86 Apr 15 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | US air raids on Libya, mainly flown from British bases |
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86 Oct 11 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (ended 12 Oct) |
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86 Nov 15 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Anglo-US Summit at Camp David: arms control statement agreed |
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87 Feb 22 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | "Louvre Accord" to halt decline in the dollar; Lawson began shadowing Deutschmark |
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87 Mar 17 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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87 Mar 28 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT visited USSR (ended 1 Apr) |
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87 May 11 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | General Election called for 11 June |
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87 Jun 11 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | General Election |
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87 Jun 13 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Reshuffle: five ministers left cabinet |
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87 Oct 19 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | "Black Monday": Dow Jones fell 23 per cent |
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88 Feb 8 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan from May |
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88 Mar 7 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Sterling `uncapped’ on MT’s insistence; rose above 3DM |
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88 Mar 15 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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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 |
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89 Jan 11 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | NHS White Paper published ( Working for Patients ) |
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89 Mar 14 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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89 Jun 3 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | China: Tiananmen Square massacre |
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89 Jun 20 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT met Howe and Lawson to discuss ERM line at Madrid Council (met again 25 Jun) |
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89 Jun 26 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Madrid European Council (ended 27 Jun): MT set "Madrid conditions" for ERM entry; rejected Social Charter |
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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 |
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89 Nov 9 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | East Germany announced opening of its border with West Germany; demolition of Berlin Wall began 10 Nov |
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89 Dec 5 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT won Conservative leadership election; 314:33 (27 abstained) |
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89 Dec 10 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Czechoslovakia: end of Communist rule (Havel President 29 Dec) |
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89 Dec 22 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Romania: Ceausescu overthrown (killed 25 Dec) |
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90 Feb 10 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Kohl in Moscow: Gorbachev agreed German reunification |
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90 Mar 11 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Lithuania declared independence of USSR |
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90 Mar 20 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Budget |
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90 Mar 31 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Trafalgar Square riot |
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90 Apr 1 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Strangeways prison siege (ended 25 Apr); disturbances in other gaols |
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90 Jul 14 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Ridley resigned over comments on Germany; Lilley joined Cabinet to succeed him at DTI |
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90 Aug 2 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Iraq invaded Kuwait; MT with Bush in Aspen |
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90 Aug 9 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | UK announced commitment of forces to the Gulf |
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90 Oct 3 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | German reunification |
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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 |
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90 Nov 1 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Howe resigned |
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90 Nov 13 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | HC: Howe’s resignation speech |
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90 Nov 14 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Heseltine stood for Conservative leadership |
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90 Nov 20 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Conservative leadership election first ballot (MT 204:152 Heseltine) |
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90 Nov 22 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT announced decision not to contest second ballot |
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90 Nov 27 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Conservative leadership election second ballot; Major became leader |
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90 Nov 28 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT resigned as Prime Minister |
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79 Jan 10 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Callaghan's return from Guadelope Summit: "Crisis, What Crisis?" ( Sun ) |
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87 Nov 17 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Community Charge: "dual running" with rates abandoned |
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87 Oct 23 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 10 to 9.5 per cent, following Black Monday |
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90 Oct 27 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Rome European Council (ended 28 Oct) |
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83 Oct 22 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Grenada: Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States requested US intervene (following coup 19 Oct) |
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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 |
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91 Feb 24 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Ground war began in Kuwait |
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91 Feb 27 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Kuwait liberated; ceasefire |
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91 Jan 16 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Air campaign launched against Iraq ("Desert Storm") |
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61 Oct 9 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary (Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance) |
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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 |
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88 Sep 8 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Jacques Delors addressed TUC Conference & invited them to join "the architects of Europe" |
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75 Apr 9 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT met Ronald Reagan for the first time (or possibly the second) |
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90 Aug 2 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | UN Security Council Resolution 660 condemns Iraq's invasion of Kuwait |
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