Meeting with Konstantin Chernenko
Margaret Thatcher meets Konstantin Chernenko
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher Biography and Timeline — Page 9
Follow Margaret Hilda Thatcher through 580 dated historical records for Great Britain.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1984
Strike
Miners strike in South Yorkshire and some Scottish pits
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The National Coal Board announces plans to cut coal output by 4 million tons to stem annual loss of $340 million a year. National Union of Mineworkers say this will mean closing 20 pits and loss of 20,000 jobs
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Cortonwood colliery strikes over closure plans
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Miners' Strike
Faces the start of the national miners' strike.
Role range: 1984-1985 – 1979-1990
Strike
81 pits are out but 83 work normally
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The National Coal Board says Britain has 23 million tons of coal in stock with another 24 million at the power stations
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Union moderates call for a national strike ballot
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Coal Stocks Assessment
The government and National Coal Board emphasised large coal reserves as industrial action spread across coalfields.
NCB Stockpile Position
The Board cited coal stocks at mines and power stations as part of its assessment of the strike.
Strike
The High Court orders miners leaders to stop backing roving pickets
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Violent picketing shuts down more mines. 132 pits shut. Some 136,000 of Britain's 175,000 miners now on strike
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
the flying pickets outside Ollerton colliery
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The Government dispatches 3,000 extra police to the Midlands
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The Midlands, Northeast and Northwest miners vote against strike
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The Kent NUM loses its case against the Government. The Kent NUM challenge the Governments right to turn away pickets
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Sets up a special committee to deal with the Miners Strike
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
London demonstration in support of the miners
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Scargill vetoes a national ballot on the miners strike
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Rival groups of miners throw stones and hurl bricks at each other when 5,000 working miners stage a right-to-work march
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
10,000 miners march through London to Parliament. Police arrest 110
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The Opposition Labour Party accuses the Government of intervening directly to defeat the miners. The Government denies it interfere in any Coal Board settlement
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Miners try to force the closure of the Sheffield steel plant & confront the police
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Orgreave Government Response
The clashes at Orgreave raised difficult questions for the government about policing and industrial relations.
Strike
The TGWU begins a Dock Strike over breaches of the National Dock Labour Scheme
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
The TGWU calls off the National Dock Strike
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
Walter Marshall estimates power stations can run until Nov 1985
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
NUM assets are sequestrated. 2 Miners begin Court action against the Yorkshire NUM for striking without a ballot
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
A Judge rules that the miners strike is illegal
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Rule of Hong Kong
Howe & Thatcher sign Declaration handing over Hong Kong to China by 1st July 1997
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Bombing of Brighton
An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
IRA - Bombing of Brighton
Government record concerning the IRA: An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
IRA - Bombing of Brighton
Historical IRA record under Conservative Party Government: An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
IRA - Bombing of Brighton
IRA context for Margaret Hilda Thatcher: An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
IRA
An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Privatization
British Telecom is floated on the stock exchange
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Strike
A court fines Scargill for obstruction
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Margaret Thatcher is visited by the Gorbachevs
Margaret Thatcher is visited by the Gorbachevs
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Agreement of Hong Kong
Signs the Hong Kong agreement in Peking, Hong Kong will return to China by 1997
Role range: 1979-1990 – 1979-1990
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.