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1889 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh
in Northern Ireland.
1895 Dundela FC were formed in Belfast
, Northern Ireland
1921 Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
1932 Amelia Earhart
flies from USA to Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes
1942 World War II
: The first American forces arrive in Europe
landing in Northern Ireland.
1965 The Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
meet for the first time in 43 years.
1968 Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
1969 Reverend Ian Paisley
, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
1969 British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary
.
1969 Jack Lynch
, Taoiseach
of the Republic of Ireland
, makes a speech to the United Nations
, in which he asks them to deploy a peace-keeping mission in Northern Ireland.
1969 British
troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1970 Charles Haughey
and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use in Northern Ireland.
1971 The United Kingdom
increases its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
1971 British security forces in Northern Ireland detain hundreds of guerilla suspects and put them into Long Kesh
- the beginning of an internment without trial policy. Twenty die in riots that follow.
1971 Rev. Ian Paisley
's Democratic Unionist Party is founded in Northern Ireland.
1972 Bloody Sunday - the British Army
kills 13 unarmed Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
1972 To prevent further unionist misrule, Britain
takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland.
1976 Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London
via the British parliament.
1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London
via the British parliament.
1976 Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
1978 The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom
government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture
.
1979 Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an INLA bomb in the British House of Commons
parking lot.
1993 Downing Street Declaration - United Kingdom
commits itself to the search for an answer to the problems of Northern Ireland.
1995 For the first time in twenty six years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast
, Northern Ireland.
1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin
.
1997 The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of the peace process.
1997 Loyalist
paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
1998 Good Friday
: 18 hours after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
1999 The United Kingdom
devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
2003 In Northern Ireland, The Protestant UDA Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.
2003 The Stevens Report concludes that members of the RUC
and British Army cooperated with the UDA in the killings of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
2004 Armed robbers in Northern Ireland steal over £22 million from the headquarters of the Northern Bank. Unionist politicians and the PSNI blame the PIRA, and stall the peace process.
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