Northern Ireland – Timeline - Mr Fitzgerald's History



Northern Ireland – Timeline

1920 – Government of Ireland Act establishes partition – sets up parliament in Stormont

1956 – IRA begins Border Campaign – Internment introduced North and South (ends in 1959)

1962 – IRA officially end Border Campaign – North ends interment

1963 – Lord Brookeborough resigns as Prime Minister – replaced by O’Neill

1965 – Coleraine Controversy

1965 – O’Neill meets Taoiseach Sean Lemass

1966 – 50th Anniversary Easter Rising – UVF engage in sectarian violence

1967 – Northern ireland Civil Rights Association

1968 – Housing dispute at Caledon Co. Tyrone

1968 – 24th August – NICRA first public protest – Paisley organises counter-protest

1968 – 5th October – William Craig bans Civil Rights protest – RUC attack peaceful marchers with batons and water cannon.

1968 – November – Wilson Reforms – rejected by Unionists – not enough for NICRA

1969 – New Year’s Day – People’s Democracy march from Belfast to Derry – attacked by loyalists at Burntollet Bridge in Co. Derry

1969 – 5th January – residents of Bogside, Derry begin policing their area – ‘You are now entering Free Derry’

1969 – 15th January – Cameron Commission set up to investigate recent disturbances

1969 – 24th February – O’Neill resigns as Prime Minister – replaced by Chichester-Clarke

1969 – 12th August – Battle of the Bogside

1969 – 14th August – British troops arrive in Northern Ireland

1970 – 11th January – IRA splits into Official and Provisional IRA

1971 – 23rd March – Brian Faulkner becomes Prime Minister

1971 – 9th August – Internment introduced

1972 – 30th January – Bloody Sunday

1972 – 24th – 30th March – Stormont suspended – Direct Rule introduced

1972 – Widgery Report

1972 – 29th May – Official IRA Ceasefire

1972 – 16th June – Provisional IRA truce

1972 – 9th July – End of IRA truce

1972 – 21st July – Bloody Friday – IRA plant 22 bombs, killing 9 and injuring 130

1973 – 8th March – Border Poll – Boycotted by Nationalists – 98% in favour of remaining in UK

1973 – 28th June – Northern Ireland Assembly elections

1973 – 9th December – Sunningdale Agreement

1974 – 1st January – Power-Sharing Executive

1974 – 28th February – General Election – Anti-Agreement Unionists win all seats except west Belfast

1974 – 14th May – Ulster Workers Council strike begins

1974 – 17th May – Dublin and Monaghan bombings

1974 – 28th May – Power-sharing Executive collapses – Direct Rule resumes

1974 – 9th July – End of internment

1974 – 29th November – Prevention of Terrorism Act – extensive police powers

1974 – 22nd December – Provisional IRA ceasefire

1975 – 10th February – IRA truce (officially ends 23rd January 1976)

1976 – End of Special Category Status for new paramilitary prisoners

1976 – 10th August – Peace People (Women’s Peace Movement) established

1980 – End of Special Category Status for all paramilitary prisoners

1980 – 7th October – First H-Blocks Hunger Strike Begins (ends 18th December)

1981 – 1st March – Second H-Blocks Hunger Strike Begins

1981 – 9th April – Bobby Sands elected in by-election

1981 – 5th May – Bobby Sands dies

1981 – 3rd October – Hunger Strike ends (10 die) – Ballot Box and Armalite Strategy for Sinn Fein

1983 – New Ireland Forum

1985 – Anglo-Irish Agreement signed – widespread Unionist opposition

1986 – Sinn Fein splits over dropping abstentionism

1988 – Hume / Adams meeting

1990 – Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister

1991 – Preliminary Talks begin

1993 – 15th December – Downing Street Declaration

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