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| - A six-man terrorist team calling itself the "Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan" (DRMLA) captures the Embassy of Iran in Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, central London, taking 26 hostages. The siege ends when the SAS storm the building, killing five of the terrorists and freeing the hostages. It is announced in parliament that US nuclear cruise missiles will be located at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, and the disused RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. Later in the year, CND hold a rally at RAF Greenham Common. Riots in Brixton, Toxteth, Peckham and Tottenham
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| - A six-man terrorist team calling itself the "Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan" (DRMLA) captures the Embassy of Iran in Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, central London, taking 26 hostages. The siege ends when the SAS storm the building, killing five of the terrorists and freeing the hostages. It is announced in parliament that US nuclear cruise missiles will be located at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, and the disused RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. Later in the year, CND hold a rally at RAF Greenham Common. Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP, Bernadette McAliskey is shot and injured at her home in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Loyalist terrorists suspected. The Liverpool-registered coal ship Nellie M is bombed and sunk by an IRA unit driving a hijacked pilot boat in Lough Foyle. Bobby Sands, an IRA member on hunger strike in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland is elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in a by election. He later dies after 66 days on hunger strike. Chelsea Barracks bombed by the Provisional IRA, killing two people. CND anti-nuclear march in London attracts over 250,000 people. The Glasgow-registered coal ship St. Bedan is bombed and sunk by an IRA unit driving a hijacked pilot boat in Lough Foyle. Canada is granted full political independence from the United Kingdom. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands & South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 2nd April. A naval task force is dispatched from the UK and after heavy fighting, the UK retakes the islands, finally declaring an end to hostilities on 20th June 1982. The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses. Sinn Féin win first seats on Northern Ireland Assembly, with Gerry Adams winning the Belfast West seat. Three RUC officers killed by an IRA bomb near Lurgan in Northern Ireland. A letter bomb explodes in 10 Downing Street sent by Animal rights activists with packages sent to the leaders of the other political parties. One member of Downing Street staff was burnt. Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence. The British colony of Gibraltar gains a pedestrian link to Spain, as the gates which separated the two states were re-opened by the Spanish government after 13 years. Thousands form a 14-mile human chain to protest the siting of American nuclear weapons in British military bases. 22 IRA members receive sentences totalling over 4,000 years from a Belfast Court. 38 prisoners hijack a lorry and escape from HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; one guard dies of a heart attack and twenty others are injured. Nineteen of the prisoners are later apprehended. Over a million people demonstrate against nuclear weapons at a CND march in London. The first US cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common amid protests from peace campaigners at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. An SAS undercover operation ends in the shooting and killing of two IRA gunmen, a third is injured. A Provisional IRA car bomb kills six, three police and three members of the public, and injures 90 outside Harrods in London. The National Union of Mineworkers start a strike which lasts until the following year. During the strike, there are frequent clashes between picketing strikers and police. Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Peace protesters are evicted from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London in the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege. 11 other people are also shot but survive. Britain severs diplomatic relations with Libya. United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997. In October, the IRA planted a bomb in the hotel in which the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet are staying during the Conservative party conference. Five people were killed and 31 injured, including some members of the cabinet. Riots in Brixton, Toxteth, Peckham and Tottenham The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed, and some hoped this would mark the beginning of the end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Many opposed the agreement, however, and so terrorism and violence continued. Gerard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, assassinated in London. Democratic Unionist Party stage protest at dissolution of Northern Ireland Assembly. Rioting breaks out in Portadown in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics. UK breaks off diplomatic relations with Syria over links to Hindawi Affair. Soldiers of the SAS kill eight members of the Provisional IRA at Loughgal, County Antrim. Eleven people killed by a Provisional IRA bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen. Channel Tunnel construction is initiated, with completion targeted within seven years. The SAS shoot dead 3 unarmed Provisional IRA members in Gibraltar. A jury later decides the killing was lawful. An Ulster Freedom Fighters terrorist, Michael Stone attacks and kills six mourners at the funeral of the three IRA members who died in Gibraltar. Two British Army Corporals are killed by a mob after accidentally driving into a funeral cortege for the victims of the Michael Stone terrorist attack. Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway and kills a total of 270 people - including all 259 who were on board. It is believed that the cause of the explosion was a terrorist bomb. Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane is murdered by the Ulster Freedom Fighters. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran places a fatwa (order to kill) on author Salman Rushdie following the publication of his controversial book "The Satanic Verses", which has caused outrage among the Islamic community. Iran later breaks off diplomatic relations with the UK over the book. IRA bomb the Tern Hill Barracks in Shropshire, injuring 50 soldiers of the Parachute Regiment. Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary are killed by the IRA. The IRA bomb the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent killing 11 soldiers.
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