Chronology
1979
| May 3 | General election. |
| June 7 | European elections. |
| June 12 | 1979 Budget. Standard rate of income tax cut to 30 per cent, top rate to 60 per cent. |
| June 28 | Tokyo G7 summit. |
| August 1–8 | Lusaka CHOGM. |
| August 27 | Assassination of Lord Mountbatten / Warrenpoint bomb. |
| October 23 | Geoffrey Howe announced abolition of remaining exchange controls. |
| November 29–30 | Dublin European Council: budget arguments. |
| December 16 | PM and Lord Carrington arrived in Washington for two-day visit. |
| December 25 | Afghanistan: USSR began invasion. |
1980
| January 2 | Steel strike began. Ended 3 April. |
| May 5 | SAS stormed Iranian Embassy. |
| June 2 | Cabinet endorsed EC budget agreement. |
| June 22 | Venice G7 summit. |
| September 22 | Iran-Iraq War began. |
| October 10 | PM addressed Conservative Conference, Brighton: ‘The lady’s not for turning.’ |
| October 27 | First Maze hunger strike began. Ended 18 December. |
| November 4 | USA: Ronald Reagan elected President. |
| December 8 | Anglo-Irish summit in Dublin. |
1981
| January 5 | Norman St John Stevas and Angus Maude left the Government. Francis Pym became Leader of House of Commons, John Nott to Defence, Leon Brittan joined Cabinet as Chief Secretary. |
| February 10 | NCB announced pit closures. Government announced NCB plan withdrawn on 18 February. |
| March 1 | Second IRA hunger strike begun by Bobby Sands. Ended 3 October after 10 deaths; then Chelsea Barracks bomb. |
| March 10 | 1981 Budget. |
| March 26 | SDP formed. Alliance formed on 16 June. |
| March 30 | 364 economists’ letter criticizing economic policy. |
| April 11–14 | Brixton riots. |
| May 10 | François Mitterrand elected French President. |
| July 3 | Southall riot. Toxteth and Moss Side riots 4–8 July. |
| July 20 | Ottawa G7 summit opened. |
| July 23 | Argument at public spending cabinet. |
| September 14 | Reshuffle: Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle and Lord Soames left the Government. Nigel Lawson, Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson joined the Cabinet. Jim Prior appointed to Northern Ireland. |
| September 30 | Melbourne CHOGM opened. |
| December 13 | Poland: Martial law declared. |
1982
| March 25 | Roy Jenkins won Glasgow, Hillhead by-election. |
| April 2 | Argentina invaded Falkland Islands. |
| April 3 | Saturday Commons debate on Falklands. Passage of UN SCR502. |
| April 5 | First naval units left Portsmouth. Lord Carrington and other Foreign Office ministers resigned. Francis Pym became Foreign Secretary, John Biffen Leader HC. |
| April 25 | South Georgia recaptured. |
| May 2 | General Belgrano sunk by HMS Conqueror. |
| May 4 | HMS Sheffield hit by an Exocet. |
| May 21 | British troops landed at San Carlos. |
| June 5 | Versailles G7 summit opened. |
| June 14 | Capture of Port Stanley. Argentinian surrender. |
| July 20 | Hyde Park, then Regent’s Park bombs. |
| July 26 | St Paul’s Thanksgiving Service. |
| September 17 | West Germany: fall of Helmut Schmidt’s Government. Helmut Kohl succeeded him as Chancellor. |
| September 20 | PM began visit to Japan/China/Hong Kong. |
1983
| January 6 | Reshuffle: John Nott resigned. Michael Heseltine to Defence; Tom King to Environment. |
| March 23 | USA: President Reagan announced SDI. |
| May 28 | Williamsburg G7 summit opened. |
| June 9 | General election. |
| June 11 | New Government formed: Nigel Lawson Chancellor; Leon Brittan Home Secretary; Geoffrey Howe Foreign Secretary; Francis Pym dropped. |
| October 14 | Cecil Parkinson resigned. |
| October 25 | US invasion of Grenada. |
| November 14 | Cruise missiles arrived at Greenham. |
| December 4 | Athens European Council. |
| December 17 | Harrods bomb. |
1984
| February 9 | USSR: death of Andropov. PM attended funeral. |
| March 8 | Miners’ strike began. |
| June 25 | Fontainebleau European Council: budget settlement. |
| July 10 | National dock strike (ended 20 July). |
| August 24 | Second national dock strike (ended 18 September). |
| October 12 | Brighton bomb. |
| October 25 | High Court ordered sequestration of NUM. |
| October 31 | India: Mrs Gandhi assassinated. |
| November 6 | USA: President Reagan re-elected. |
| November 20 | British Telecom flotation. |
| December 75 | Mr and Mrs Gorbachev visited Chequers. |
| December 19 | China: PM signed Hong Kong agreement in Peking. |
1985
| February 20 | PM visited Washington and addressed a joint session of Congress. |
| March 5 | Miners returned to work. |
| March 11 | USSR: Mr Gorbachev new Soviet leader. PM visited Moscow for Chernenko’s funeral. |
| April 4 | PM began eleven-day tour of Far East. |
| May 2 | Bonn G7 summit opened. |
| September 2 | Reshuffle. Peter Rees, Patrick Jenkin and Lord Gowrie left the Government. Norman Tebbit new party chairman. Leon Brittan to DTI. Douglas Hurd to Home Office. Kenneth Clarke, John MacGregor and Kenneth Baker all joined the Cabinet. |
| September 9 | Handsworth riots (continued 10 September). Brixton 28 September. |
| September 16–19 | PM toured Egypt and Jordan. |
| September 25 | Plaza Accord to reduce value of the dollar. |
| October 6–7 | Broadwater Farm riot. |
| October 16–23 | Nassau CHOGM: arguments about South Africa. |
| October 24 | PM and President Reagan addressed UN General Assembly. |
| November 15 | PM signed Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough. |
| December 3 | Luxemburg European Council. |
1986
| January 9 | Westland: Michael Heseltine resigned. |
| January 24 | Westland: Leon Brittan resigned. |
| January 28 | Publication of Community Charge Green Paper. |
| April 15 | US raid on Libya. |
| May 3–6 | PM visited South Korea and attended Tokyo G7 summit. |
| May 21 | Reshuffle. Keith Joseph resigned. Kenneth Baker replaced him as Education Secretary. |
| May 24–27 | PM visited Israel. |
| August 3 | Special London Commonwealth summit on South Africa. |
| October 24 | Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Syria following Hindawi affair. |
| November 13–16 | PM visited Camp David, following Reykjavik summit. |
| December 5 | London European Council. |
1987
| February 22 | Louvre Accord to stabilize the dollar. |
| March 28 | USSR: PM began five-day tour of USSR (ended 2 April). |
| June 8 | Venice G7 summit opened. |
| June 11 | General election. |
| July 17 | USA: PM visited President Reagan in Washington. |
| October 6 | Conservative Conference: led to abandonment of decision to phase in community charge (dual running). |
| October 13 | Vancouver CHOGM. |
| October 19 | ‘Black Monday’. |
| November 8 | Enniskillen bomb killed 11, injured 60. |
| December 7 | PM held talks with Mr Gorbachev at Brize Norton. |
| December 8 | INF Treaty signed in Washington. |
1988
| January 4–8 | PM toured Africa. |
| January 10 | Lord Whitelaw resigned due to ill-health. |
| March 7 | Sterling ‘uncapped’. |
| March 15 | 1988 Budget. Standard rate of income tax cut to 25 per cent, top rate to 40 per cent. |
| March | NATO summit in Brussels. |
| April 6–8 | PM visited Turkey. |
| April 18 | Michael Mates’s amendment to band community charge defeated. |
| May 21 | PM spoke to General Assembly of Church of Scotland. |
| June 2 | Interest rates increased from low of 7.5 per cent to 8 per cent. |
| June 19–21 | Toronto G7 summit. |
| July 17 | Alan Walters’s return as economic adviser to PM announced. |
| July 25 | Reshuffle. DHSS split between Kenneth Clarke and John Moore. |
| July 30 | PM began eleven-day tour of the Far East and Australia. |
| August 20 | IRA bomb at Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone. PM cut short Cornish holiday. |
| September 20 | Bruges speech. |
| November 2 | PM began three-day visit to Poland. |
| November 8 | USA: George Bush elected President. |
| November 17 | PM visited Washington: farewell to President Reagan and talks with President Bush. |
| December 21 | Lockerbie bombing. |
1989
| January 31 | Publication of NHS White Paper. |
| March 27 | PM began six-day visit to Africa. |
| April 1 | PM visited Namibia. |
| April 5 | Mr Gorbachev began a three-day visit to UK. |
| May 29–30 | NATO fortieth anniversary summit in Brussels. |
| June 3 | China: Tiananmen Square massacre. |
| June 26 | Madrid European Council. |
| July 14–16 | French Revolution Bicentennial and Paris G7 summit. |
| July 24 | Reshuffle: John Moore, Paul Channon, Lord Young and George Younger left the Government. Geoffrey Howe from FCO to Lord President and Leader HC. John Major succeeded him at FCO. |
| September 19–22 | PM visited Japan. |
| October 18–24 | Kuala Lumpur CHOGM. |
| October 26 | Nigel Lawson resigned. John Major replaced him as Chancellor and Douglas Hurd became Foreign Secretary. |
| November 9 | East Germany: announced opening of its border with West Germany. Demolition of Berlin Wall began 10 November. |
| December 5 | PM defeated Sir Anthony Meyer in leadership election 314:33. Twenty-seven abstained. |
| December 10 | Czechoslovakia: end of communist rule. |
| December 22 | Romania: Ceauşescu overthrown. |
1990
| February 2 | South Africa: President de Klerk announced unbanning of ANC. Nelson Mandela released February 11. |
| March 31 | Trafalgar Square riot. |
| April 24–25 | PM visited Turkey on seventy-fifth anniversary of Gallipoli landings. |
| July 6 | NATO summit in London. |
| July 9 | Houston G7 summit. |
| July 14 | Nick Ridley resigned. |
| July 30 | IRA murdered Ian Gow. |
| August 2 | Gulf: Iraq invaded Kuwait. PM held talks in Aspen, Colorado with President Bush. |
| September 17–19 | PM visited Czechoslovakia and Hungary. |
| October 3 | German reunification. |
| October 27–28 | Rome European Council. |
| November 1 | Geoffrey Howe resigned. |
| November 19–21 | CSCE summit in Paris. |
| November 20 | Conservative leadership first ballot: MT 204, Heseltine 152, 16 abstentions. |
| November 22 | PM announced decision not to contest second ballot. Final speech to the Commons as PM. |
| November 28 | MT resigned as PM. |
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