03 Jan	Britain expels Iraqi diplomats
08 Jan	One dead as train crashes into buffers
10 Jan	Last ditch efforts to avoid Gulf War
12 Jan	US Congress votes for war in Iraq
13 Jan	Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
17 Jan	'Mother of all Battles' begins
18 Jan	Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel
30 Jan	US Marines killed at Al Khafji
22 Feb	Bush threatens Iraq with land war
13 Feb	US bombers strike civilians in Baghdad
26 Feb	Iraqi troops flee Kuwait City
28 Feb	Jubilation follows Gulf War ceasefire
25 Feb	Birmingham Six on verge of freedom
02 Mar	Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast
14 Mar	Birmingham Six freed after 16 years
23 Mar	Tories launch 'citizen charter'
28 Mar	Family anger at Hillsborough verdict
04 Apr	Orkney 'abuse' children go home
14 May	Mandela's wife jailed for kidnaps
18 May	Sharman becomes first Briton in space
21 May	Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi
03 Jun	IRA men shot dead by British army
04 Jun	UK army spending to be cut
13 Jun	Yeltsin wins first Russian elections
14 Jun	Iraqi Kurds fear US troop withdrawal
21 Jun	Anger over chairman's 66% pay rise
27 Jun	Yugoslav troops move against Slovenia
28 Jun	Thatcher to retire from Commons
05 Jul	International bank closed in fraud scandal
09 Jul	Bank collapse costs taxpayers millions
11 Jul	Anti-poll tax MP jailed
14 Jul	UK forces withdraw from Kurdish haven
22 Jul	Citizen's charter promises better services
30 Jul	Pavarotti sings in the British rain
31 Jul	Superpowers to cut nuclear warheads
08 Aug	Beirut hostage John McCarthy freed
13 Aug	Prince quits in museum design row
19 Aug	Hardliners stage coup against Gorbachev
23 Aug	Gorbachev punishes coup plotters
09 Oct	Sumos size up Royal Albert Hall
30 Oct	Bush opens historic Mid East peace conference
05 Nov	Publisher Robert Maxwell dies at sea
18 Nov	Church envoy Waite freed in Beirut
24 Nov	Giant of rock dies
25 Nov	Silcott not guilty of PC's murder
04 Dec	Last US hostage freed
05 Dec	Maxwell business empire faces bankruptcy
25 Dec	Gorbachev resigns as Soviet Union breaks up