TIMELINE - KEY DATES/EVENTS

Project Timeline

August 1968 – August 1998

1968 24/8/1968 First Civil Rights March   5/10/1968 Civil Rights March in Derry   9/10/1968 People's Democracy Formed   22/11/1968 Reforms Package Announced 1969 1/1/1969 People's Democracy March Began   4/1/1969 Burntollet Ambush   24/1/1969 Faulkner Resigned   24/2/1969 Stormont Election   30/3/1969 Loyalist Bombs   4/4/1969 Loyalist Bomb   17/4/1969 Westminster By-Election   20/4/1969 Loyalist Bombs   26/4/1969 Loyalist Bomb   1/5/1969 Chichester-Clark Elected Prime Minister   14/7/1969 First Death of the Conflict (taken 24th August 1968 as its starting point)   17/7/1969 Samuel Devenny Died   12/8/1969 Battle of the Bogside Began   14/8/1969 British Army Troops Deployed   9/9/1969 'Peace Line' Constructed   12/9/1969 Cameron Report Published   10/10/1969 Hunt Report Published   11/10/1969 First RUC Officer Killed   19/10/1969 Loyalist Bomb   28/12/1969 Split in the IRA 1970 11/1/1970 Sinn Féin Split   1/4/1970 UDR Began Operations   16/4/1970 Paisley Won Stormont By-Election   21/4/1970 Alliance Party Formed   28/5/1970 Arms Trial Began   18/6/1970 Westminster General Election   27/6/1970 Major Gun Battle in Belfast   3/7/1970 Falls Road Curfew   2/8/1970 Rubber Baton Rounds Introduced   21/8/1970 SDLP Formed 1971 6/2/1971 First Soldier Killed   23/3/1971 Faulkner Became Prime Minister   8/7/1971 Two Men Killed by British Soldiers   9/8/1971 Internment   15/8/1971 Campaign of Civil Disobedience   16/11/1971 Compton Report Published   4/12/1971 McGurk's Pub Bombing   11/12/1971 Balmoral Showroom Bombing 1972 30/1/1972 'Bloody Sunday'   2/2/1972 British Embassy in Dublin Destroyed   22/2/1972 Aldershot Barracks Bomb   24/3/1972 Announcement of End of Stormont   30/3/1972 Direct Rule Introduced   6/4/1972 Scarman Report   18/4/1972 Widgery Report Published   19/5/1972 Killing of school boy Manus Deery   21/5/1972 Killing of 'Ranger' Best   29/5/1972 Official IRA Ceasefire   26/6/1972 Provisional IRA Ceasefire   7/7/1972 Secret Talks Between IRA and British Government   21/7/1972 'Bloody Friday'   31/7/1972 'Operation Motorman' / Claudy Bombings   1/12/1972 Two Killed by Bombs in Dublin   20/12/1972 Diplock Report Published 1973 7/2/1973 United Loyalist Council Strike   8/3/1973 The Border Poll   30/5/1973 District Council Elections   28/6/1973 Northern Ireland Assembly Election   31/7/1973 First Assembly Meeting   21/11/1973 Executive Agreed   6/12/1973 Sunningdale Agreement 1974 1/1/1974 Executive Takes Office   4/2/1974 'M62 Coach Bomb'   28/2/1974 General Election   14/5/1974 Beginning of the Ulster Workers Council Strike   15/5/1974 Day 1 of the UWC strike   16/5/1974 Day 2 of the UWC strike   17/5/1974 Dublin and Monaghan Bombings; 33 People Killed Day 3 of the UWC strike   18/5/1974 Day 4 of the UWC strike   19/5/1974 Day 5 of the UWC strike   20/5/1974 Day 6 of the UWC strike   21/5/1974 Day 7 of the UWC strike   22/5/1974 Day 8 of the UWC strike   24/5/1974 Day 10 of the UWC strike   25/5/1974 Day 11 of the UWC strike   27/5/1974 Day 13 of the UWC strike   28/5/1974 Executive Collapsed, Direct Rule Resumed Day 14 of the UWC strike   9/7/1974 Announcement of End to Internment   5/10/1974 Guildford Bombs   10/10/1974 General Election   21/11/1974 Birmingham Pub Bombs   29/11/1974 Prevention of Terrorism Act   10/12/1974 Feakle Talks   22/12/1974 Irish Republican Army (IRA) Ceasefire 1975 10/2/1975 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) Truce   1/5/1975 Constitution Convention Election   31/7/1975 Miami Showband killings   2/10/1975 12 People Killed in UVF Attacks   22/10/1975 'Guildford Four'   5/12/1975 End of Internment   6/12/1975 Balcombe Street Siege   19/12/1975 Loyalists Kill Five People 1976 4/1/1976 Reavey & O'Dowd Killings   5/1/1976 Kingsmills Massacre   1/3/1976 End of Special Category Status Prisoners   3/3/1976 'Maguire Seven' Convicted   25/3/1976 'Police Primacy' ('Ulsterisation')   22/5/1976 Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) Ceasefire   21/7/1976 British Ambassador to Ireland Killed   10/8/1976 Peace People (Women's Peace Movement) Established   2/9/1976 European Commission on Human Rights Decision   14/9/1976 'Blanket Protest' Began   1/12/1976 Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1977 3/5/1977 United Unionist Action Council (UUAC) Strike Day 1 of the UUAC Strike   4/5/1977 Day 2 of the UUAC Strike   5/5/1977 Day 3 of the UUAC Strike   6/5/1977 Day 4 of the UUAC Strike   7/5/1977 Day 5 of the UUAC Strike   8/5/1977 Day 6 of the UUAC Strike   9/5/1977 Day 7 of the UUAC Strike   10/5/1977 Day 8 of the UUAC Strike   11/5/1977 Day 9 of the UUAC Strike   13/5/1977 End of United Unionist Action Council (UUAC) Strike Day 13 of the UUAC Strike   18/5/1977 District Council Elections   10/10/1977 Peace People Win Nobel Peace Prize 1978 18/1/1978 European Court Decision on Treatment of Internees   17/2/1978 La Mon Restaurant Bombing   25/5/1978 The Disappeared   13/6/1978 Amnesty International Report   27/8/1978 Civil Rights March   6/9/1978 Adams Cleared of IRA Membership   28/11/1978 Increase in Number of MPs 1979 20/2/1979 'Shankill Butchers' Sentenced   16/3/1979 Bennett Report   28/3/1979 Labour Government Lost Vote of Confidence   30/3/1979 Airey Neave Killed   3/5/1979 General Election   7/6/1979 European Parliament Elections   27/8/1979 Warrenpoint Attack and Mountbatten Killing   29/9/1979 Pope's Visit to Ireland   1/11/1979 (or 2 November ?)   20/11/1979 White Paper Published 1980 7/1/1980 Constitutional Conference / Atkins Talks   26/3/1980 Announcement of End to Special Category Status   3/4/1980 Kincora Scandal   2/7/1980 Government Proposals Published   27/10/1980 1980 Hunger Strike Began   8/12/1980 British PM in Dublin Summit Meeting   18/12/1980 1980 Hunger Strike Ended 1981 16/1/1981 Bernadette McAliskey Shot   6/2/1981 'Firearm Certificates Protest'   1/3/1981 1981 Hunger Strike Began   5/4/1981 The 1981 Census   9/4/1981 Bobby Sands Elected to Westminster   19/4/1981 Killings of Gary English & James Brown   20/4/1981   5/5/1981 Bobby Sands Died   7/5/1981 Funeral of Bobby Sands   12/5/1981 Second Hunger Striker Died   13/5/1981 Killing of school girl Julie Livingstone   20/5/1981 District Council Elections   21/5/1981 Third and Fourth Hunger Strikers Died   10/6/1981 Crumlin Road Prison Escape   8/7/1981 Fifth Hunger Striker Died   13/7/1981 Sixth Hunger Striker Died   1/8/1981 Seventh Hunger Striker Died   2/8/1981 Eighth Hunger Striker Died   8/8/1981 Ninth Hunger Striker Died   20/8/1981 Tenth Hunger Striker Died   1/9/1981 First Integrated Secondary School   28/9/1981 Killing of RUC member   28/9/1981   3/10/1981 Republican Hunger Strike Ended   6/10/1981 Announcement on Prison Policy   23/11/1981 Loyalist 'Day of Action' 1982 4/3/1982 By-Election in South Belfast   5/4/1982 White Paper Published   19/4/1982 Killing of eleven year old school boy   20/7/1982 Hyde Park and Regent's Park Bombs   20/10/1982 Assembly Elections   11/11/1982 'Shoot to Kill' Allegation   24/11/1982 'Shoot to Kill' Allegation   6/12/1982 'Droppin Well' Bomb   12/12/1982 'Shoot to Kill' Allegation 1983 11/4/1983 Sentences in First 'Supergrass' Trial   30/5/1983 First Meeting of New Ireland Forum   9/6/1983 General Election in UK   13/7/1983 Four UDR Soldiers Killed   25/9/1983 Mass Escape From Maze   20/11/1983 Darkley Killings 1984 18/4/1984 IRA Detonate Huge Landmine   2/5/1984 Report of New Ireland Forum   24/5/1984 Stalker Inquiry Begins   1/6/1984 Reagan Visit to Ireland   14/6/1984 European Parliament Election   12/10/1984 Brighton Bombing   19/11/1984 Anglo-Irish Summit Meeting   6/12/1984 SAS Ambush Kills Two IRA Men   14/12/1984 First Soldier Convicted of Murder 1985 28/2/1985 Nine RUC Officers Killed   15/5/1985 District Council Elections   7/7/1985 Drumcree Parade   6/8/1985 IRA Member Killed in Premature Explosion   15/11/1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement Signed   23/11/1985 Unionist Rally Against AIA   17/12/1985 Unionist MPs Resign 1986 23/1/1986 Westminster By-Elections   3/3/1986 Unionist 'Day of Action’   5/6/1986 Stalker Removed From Inquiry   23/6/1986 Northern Ireland Assembly Dissolved   6/7/1986 Riots in Portadown   7/8/1986 DUP 'Invade' Republic   18/9/1986 International Fund for Ireland   2/11/1986 SF End Abstentionism / Split in SF   10/11/1986 Ulster Resistance Formed   15/11/1986 Unionist Rally Against AIA 1987 8/5/1987 Loughgall Killings   11/6/1987 General Election   8/11/1987 Enniskillen Bombing 1988 11/1/1988 Hume Adams Meeting   6/3/1988 Gibraltar Killings   16/3/1988 Milltown Cemetery Killings   19/3/1988 Army Corporals Killed   15/6/1988 Lisburn Killings   20/8/1988 Ballygawley Bombing   14/10/1988 Duisburg Meetings   19/10/1988 Broadcasting Ban 1989 12/2/1989 Finucane Killing   17/5/1989 Local Government Elections   15/6/1989 European Elections   22/9/1989 Deal Bombing   8/10/1989 UDR Members Arrested   19/10/1989 Guildford Four Released   21/10/1989 1990 10/1/1990 Stevens Inquiry Fire   1/3/1990 McGimpsey Appeal on Irish Constitution   11/4/1990 Official Visit by Taoiseach   17/5/1990 Summary of Stevens Report Published   20/7/1990 IRA Bomb Stock Exchange   30/7/1990 Ian Gow Killed   30/9/1990 'Joy riders' Shot Dead   24/10/1990 'Proxy Bomb' Attacks   9/11/1990 Brooke Speech   22/11/1990 Thatcher Resigns 1991 7/2/1991 Mortar Attack on Downing Street   14/3/1991 'Birmingham Six' Freed   25/3/1991 Arrangements for Talks Agreed   21/4/1991 Census   29/4/1991 CLMC Ceasefire   30/4/1991 Preliminary Talks Began   31/5/1991 IRA Bomb UDR Base   7/6/1991 Political Talks Began   26/6/1991 Maguire Seven Freed   3/7/1991 Political Talks End   4/7/1991 End of CLMC Ceasefire   23/7/1991 Announcement of Merger of UDR and RIR   1/9/1991 Visit by USA Delegation   2/10/1991 'The Committee' Broadcast   24/11/1991 Explosion Inside Crumlin Prison   19/12/1991 Initiative '92 Launched 1992 17/1/1992 Teebane Bombing   22/1/1992 Nelson Pleaded Guilty   4/2/1992 Shooting at SF Office   5/2/1992 Shooting at Bookmaker's Shop   16/2/1992 SAS ambush IRA at Coalisland   16/2/1992 SAS ambush IRA at Coalisland   9/3/1992 Plenary Session of Talks   9/4/1992 General Election in UK   10/4/1992 Baltic Exchange Bombing   11/4/1992 Mayhew Appointed Secretary of State   29/4/1992 Political Talks Recommenced   1/5/1992 IRA Bomb Attack On Border Checkpoint   12/6/1992 Strand One of Talks Deadlocked   6/7/1992 6 – 8 July 1992   10/8/1992 UDA Banned   2/9/1992 (Brooke / Mayhew) Political Talks Resumed   21/9/1992 21 - 23 September 1992   23/9/1992 IRA Bomb at Forensic Science Laboratory   10/11/1992 End of Political Talks   16/12/1992 Mayhew Speech at Coleraine 1993 20/3/1993 Warrington Bombs   25/3/1993 Castlerock Killings   25/3/1993   10/4/1993 Hume Meets Adams   24/4/1993 Bishopsgate Bomb   19/5/1993 Local Government Elections   27/5/1993 Queen Meets President   18/6/1993 President Shakes Adams' Hand   4/9/1993 4 September 1993 to 11 September 1993   7/10/1993 Hume Meets Taoiseach   23/10/1993 Shankill Bomb   26/10/1993 Kennedy Way 'Revenge' Killings   30/10/1993 Greysteel 'Revenge' Killings   28/11/1993 Secret Talks Between British and Republicans   15/12/1993 Downing Street Declaration 1994 19/1/1994 Irish Broadcast Ban Lifted   27/1/1994 Two Catholics Killed by Loyalists   29/1/1994 US Visa Given to Adams   10/2/1994 Dominic McGlinchey Killed   17/2/1994 RUC Officer and Catholic Civilian Killed   9/3/1994 First IRA Mortar Attack on Heathrow   11/3/1994 Second IRA Mortar Attack on Heathrow   13/3/1994 Third IRA Mortar Attack on Heathrow   6/4/1994 IRA Ceasefire   7/4/1994 Protestant Woman Killed by Loyalists   24/4/1994 Two Protestants Killed by IRA   17/5/1994 Two Catholics Killed by UVF   18/5/1994 Two Catholics Killed by UVF   2/6/1994 25 Security Personnel Killed in Helicopter Crash   16/6/1994 Three UVF Members shot by INLA   17/6/1994 Three Men Shot by UVF   18/6/1994 Loughlinisland Killings   24/7/1994 Sinn Féin Conference   31/7/1994 Two UDA Men Killed by IRA   31/8/1994 IRA Cessation of Military Operations   16/9/1994 British Broadcast Ban Lifted   13/10/1994 Loyalist Ceasefire Announced   1/12/1994 USA Special Adviser Appointed   22/12/1994 Catholic Man Killed by Loyalists 1995 16/1/1995 SF Meeting With NIO Officials   22/2/1995 Framework Documents Published   7/3/1995 'Washington Three' Conditions   17/3/1995 Adams Attends White House Reception   28/4/1995 Catholic Civilian Killed by IRA   10/5/1995 SF Meeting With NIO Minister   24/5/1995 Mayhew Meeting With Adams   3/7/1995 Clegg Released   9/7/1995 Stand-Off At Drumcree   18/7/1995 Secret Meeting Between British and SF   13/8/1995 IRA "Haven't Gone Away"   8/9/1995 Trimble Elected Leader of UUP   27/9/1995 Ruling on Gibraltar Killings   27/11/1995 Catholic Killed in Sectarian Attack   28/11/1995 Joint Communiqué by British and Irish Governments   30/11/1995 First Clinton Visit Began 1996 24/1/1996 Mitchell Report on Decommissioning   9/2/1996 End of IRA Ceasefire   4/3/1996 Proximity Talks   30/5/1996 Forum Elections   7/6/1996 Garda Killed by IRA   10/6/1996 Stormont Talks Began   15/6/1996 Manchester Bombing   7/7/1996 Drumcree Parade - 'Drumcree II'   13/7/1996 CIRA Bombing   7/10/1996 IRA Bombing of Army Headquarters 1997 30/1/1997 North Report   12/2/1997 Last British Soldier to be Killed   5/3/1997 Stormont Talks Adjourned   5/4/1997 'Grand National' Cancelled   27/4/1997 Robert Hamill   1/5/1997 General Election   3/5/1997 Mowlam Appointed Secretary of State   16/5/1997 Blair Keynote Speech   21/5/1997 Local Government Elections   2/6/1997 First Nationalist Mayor of Belfast   3/6/1997 Stormont Talks Resumed   6/6/1997 General Election in Republic of Ireland   16/6/1997 Two RUC Officers Killed by IRA   6/7/1997 Drumcree Parade - 'Drumcree III'   20/7/1997 Renewed IRA Ceasefire   12/8/1997 First Debate Between SF and UUP on TV   26/8/1997 Agreement on Decommissioning Body   29/8/1997 Announcement that SF Could Enter Talks   9/9/1997 Sinn Féin Signed Mitchell Principles   15/9/1997 Multi-Party Talks Resumed   20/9/1997 Harryville Picket Resumed   24/9/1997 Procedures Agreed at Multi-party Talks   30/9/1997 Format of Negotiations Agreed at Talks   7/10/1997 Substantive Talks Began at Stormont   17/10/1997 Parades Commission Announced   6/11/1997 Split in Sinn Féin   11/12/1997 Sinn Féin Delegation at Downing Street   27/12/1997 Billy Wright Shot Dead in Maze Prison 1998 12/1/1998 Propositions of Heads of Agreement   22/1/1998 RUC Blame UDA / UFF For Killings   23/1/1998 UFF Reinstate Ceasefire   26/1/1998 UDP Expelled from Talks   16/2/1998 Talks Move to Dublin   20/2/1998 Sinn Féin Expelled from Talks   3/3/1998 Poyntzpass Killing   9/3/1998 Decision Not To Extradite McAliskey   17/3/1998 First St Partick’s Day Parade in Belfast   23/3/1998 Sinn Féin (SF) Rejoined Talks   25/3/1998 Mitchell Sets Deadline   31/3/1998 UN Report Critical Of RUC   10/4/1998 Good Friday / Belfast Agreement   24/4/1998 Last Meeting Of Forum   7/5/1998 real IRA   10/5/1998 SF End Abstentions   15/5/1998 LVF Ceasefire   20/5/1998 Blair's Pledges   22/5/1998 Referendum on The Agreement   25/6/1998 Northern Ireland Assembly Election   1/7/1998 First Meeting of 'Shadow' Assembly. 'First Minister Designate' and 'Deputy First Minister Designate' Elected   2/7/1998 10 Catholic Churches Attacked   5/7/1998 Drumcree Parade - 'Drumcree IV'   12/7/1998 Three Quinn Boys Killed at Ballymoney   15/8/1998 The Omagh Bomb   18/8/1998 real IRA Suspension of Military Actions   22/8/1998 INLA Ceasefire   26/8/1998 Blair Visits Omagh

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