08 Jan	Vietnam forces Khmer Rouge retreat
10 Jan	'No chaos here' declares Callaghan
16 Jan	Shah of Iran flees into exile
22 Jan	Public sector strike paralyses country
01 Feb	Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
02 Feb	Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose
09 Feb	Forest break football transfer record
11 Feb	Victory for Khomeini as army steps aside
17 Feb	China invades Vietnam
22 Mar	British ambassador assassinated in Holland
13 Mar	Grenada leader ousted by coup
18 Mar	Three die in Golborne mine blast
28 Mar	Nuclear leak causes alarm in America
28 Mar	Early election as Callaghan defeated
30 Mar	Car bomb kills Airey Neave
04 Apr	Deposed Pakistani PM is executed
14 Apr	New president for war-torn Uganda
23 Apr	Teacher dies in Southall race riots
04 May	Election victory for Margaret Thatcher
25 May	Price of milk shoots up
02 Jun	Millions cheer as the Pope comes home
18 Jun	Leaders agree arms reduction treaty
22 Jun	Thorpe cleared of murder charges
05 Jul	Queen oversees Manx millennium
11 Jul	Skylab tumbles back to Earth
17 Jul	Sandinista rebels take Nicaraguan capital
09 Aug	Brighton bares all
14 Aug	Freak storm hits yacht race
14 Aug	Disgraced ex-MP released from jail
23 Aug	Kurdish revolt grows in Iran
27 Aug	IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten
27 Aug	Soldiers die in Warrenpoint massacre
02 Sep	Ripper suspected of 12th murder
05 Sep	Mountbatten buried after final parade
05 Sep	'You can't buy that sort of pride'
21 Sep	Harrier crash kills three
29 Sep	Pope calls for peace in Ireland
03 Oct	Anti-racists tackle South African rugby tourists
26 Oct	South Korean President killed
28 Oct	Chairman Hua arrives in London
04 Nov	Militants storm US embassy in Tehran
13 Nov	Times returns after year-long dispute
16 Nov	Blunt revealed as 'fourth man'
21 Nov	Mob destroys US embassy in Pakistan
07 Dec	Lord Soames to govern Rhodesia
10 Dec	Daredevil Kidd's 80ft river jump
20 Dec	Council tenants will have 'right to buy'
24 Dec	Europe launches first rocket
26 Dec	Joy as guerrillas fly in to Rhodesia
28 Dec	Tay Bridge rail disaster remembered