17 January 1978Bombing of BelfastRoy Mason
12 people are killed & 30 injured, in the La Mon House entertainment complex at 2100GMT, a peaceful area of County Down, 14 miles from Belfast
Historical records for Great Britain in 1978, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
12 people are killed & 30 injured, in the La Mon House entertainment complex at 2100GMT, a peaceful area of County Down, 14 miles from Belfast
Rotten announces his departure from the Sex Pistols, amid a turbulent tour of the United States
Performs guitar at Simple Minds' first concert at Satellite City.
Performs in Simple Minds' first concert at Satellite City in Glasgow.
The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
Government record concerning the IRA: The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
Historical IRA record under Labour Party Government: The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
IRA context for Roy Mason: The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
Government record concerning the IRA: The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
Historical IRA record under Labour Party Government: The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
IRA context for Roy Mason: The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up
The group played their first gig as Joy Division
The Damned want Syd Barrett to produce their new album, they make do with Nick Mason instead
McLaren is accused by band members (most notably by John Lydon) of mismanaging them and refusing to pay them when they asked him for money & they split during the American tour
McLaren is accused by band members (most notably by John Lydon) of mismanaging them and refusing to pay them when they asked him for money & they split during the American tour
The Buzzcocks release "What Do I Get"
No Time to Be 21 enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number thirty-four.
The BBC TV show Grange Hill, a childrens drama created by Phil Redmond, makes its debut
Magazine's Shot by Both Sides enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number forty-one.
What Do I Get becomes Buzzcocks' first Official Singles Chart hit and reaches the UK Top Forty.
Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts enters the UK albums chart.
Ready Steady Go enters the Official Singles Chart during Generation X's first major release period.
Tell Us the Truth enters the UK albums chart and reaches number twenty-five.
999's self-titled debut album enters the UK albums chart.
Buzzcocks' debut album Another Music in a Different Kitchen enters the UK chart and peaks at number fifteen.
A white paper announces cuts to the defence budget of 4,700 million pounds over 10 yrs
Continues Genesis as a trio with Banks and Collins after Hackett's departure.
Generation X's self-titled debut enters the UK albums chart and peaks at number twenty-nine.
Healey delivers a Budget providing tax reductions, industrial support and increased social spending.
The Day the World Turned Day-Glo enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number twenty-three.
Healey raises child benefit and directs additional assistance toward working families.
Manages Ipswich Town to a 1-0 FA Cup final victory over Arsenal.
Guides Liverpool to a second successive European Cup.
Scores the only goal as Liverpool defeat Club Brugge in the European Cup final at Wembley.
Angels with Dirty Faces enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number nineteen.
I Don't Mind enters the Official Singles Chart as Buzzcocks continue their rapid run of releases.
The Kinks release Misfits.
Produces Live and Dangerous, Thin Lizzy's celebrated live album.
The Rolling Stones release Some Girls.
Birth of Frank Lampard
Magazine's debut album Real Life enters the UK albums chart and reaches number twenty-nine.
"David Gilmour", the guitarist's first solo album is released
The Solomon Islands are granted independence after 85 years of British rule
The Solomon Islands are granted independence after 85 years of British rule
Release Who Are You as a single.
Unifies small hard left groups suuch as the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (SCLV) & produces the Socialist Organiser, as a mouthpiece for Livingstones views, criticising Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan as "anti-working class"
Unifies small hard left groups suuch as the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (SCLV) & produces the Socialist Organiser, as a mouthpiece for Livingstones views, criticising Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan as "anti-working class"
Healey backs a five percent guideline for the next pay round despite growing trade-union resistance.
Backs the five percent pay guideline despite union warnings.
Healey introduces a White Paper setting a five percent pay guideline.
Backs the five percent pay guideline that strains the union bargain.
Identity enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number twenty-four.
If the Kids Are United enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number nine.
Supports the Scotland Act as part of Labour's devolution programme.
Supports Franco-German proposals that lead toward the European Monetary System.
Release the album Who Are You.
Hong Kong Garden enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number seven.
Keith Moon dies of an overdose of the drug prescribed to control his alcoholism
Dies in London after a drug overdose.
The Buzzcocks release "Ever Fallen in Love?"
Releases Stage, a live album documenting his late-1970s touring band and Berlin-era material.
Plays guitar on Tormato during the last album by the late-1970s line-up.
Drums on Tormato, the final studio album before Anderson and Wakeman leave.
Ever Fallen in Love enters the Official Singles Chart and becomes Buzzcocks' best-known 1970s hit.
Drums on Never Say Die, the last studio album of the original Ozzy-era line-up.
Rick Wright releases "Wet Dream", his first solo album
Buzzcocks' second album Love Bites enters the UK albums chart and peaks at number thirteen.
Agrees to negotiate despite the government's wage restraint policy.
Spungen was found dead in the Chelsea Hotel room she was sharing with Vicious, with stab wounds to her stomach and dressed only in her underwear
Moving Targets enters the UK albums chart and reaches number twenty-two.
Germ Free Adolescents enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number nineteen.
Releases Blondes Have More Fun, his most disco-influenced late-1970s album.
Give 'Em Enough Rope enters the UK albums chart and peaks at number two.
Homicide enters the Official Singles Chart and reaches number forty.
Accept a seventeen percent settlement that breaks the pay guideline.
Sham 69's That's Life enters the UK albums chart during the band's successful 1978 run.
Tommy Gun enters the Official Singles Chart and later reaches number nineteen.
Scores Liverpool's goal in the 3-1 first-leg UEFA Super Cup defeat by Anderlecht.
Scores the opening goal for Liverpool in the second leg of the UEFA Super Cup against Anderlecht.
Ian Curtis suffers his first recognisable epileptic fit, after a show Curtis has a seizure during the ride home and has to be taken to a hospital, In spite of Curtis illness, Joy Divisions career continues to progress
Ford workers settle for 17%. British Oxygen workers settle for 10%. British Leyland workers make a claim for 37%
Scores Ipswich Town's only goal against Arsenal before being substituted during the celebrations.
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for California Suite
Awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine
Records Black and White as the band moves toward a starker and more experimental sound.
Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's drinking led to his firing from the band, he is replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio
Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's drinking led to his firing from the band, he is replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Rejoins Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath release the Album, "Never Say Die"
Releases "Blondes Have More Fun"
Denis Winston Healey presents the 1978 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The 1978 Budget under Denis Winston Healey sets out the Government's taxation, expenditure and borrowing plans.
Appears in Butterflies (1978-1983)
Writer of the ssitcom Butterflies (1978-1983)
Appears in Butterflies (1978-1983)
Appears in Butterflies (1978-1983)
The Buzzcocks release "Another Music in a Different Kitchen"
UK Subs release C.I.D., one of the band's earliest recorded statements and a key step toward wider recognition.
Recruited as drummer for The Clash, who had played briefly with Joness London SS two years before, Headon is nicknamed "Topper" by Simonon, who felt he resembled the Topper comic book character Mickey the Monkey
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe proposed links among cometary encounters, climatic change, and ecological catastrophes.
Supports preparations for further enlargement of the European Community.
British Rail creates a through suburban service crossing Birmingham from north to south.
Releases Da Ya Think I'm Sexy, a disco-era hit that becomes one of his signature songs.
Returns as the Damned regroup after their initial breakup and resume recording and performing.
Kenney Jones replaces Keith Moon on drums
Death of Selwyn Lloyd
Dies of a drugs overdose in New York
Appears in Death on the Nile
Awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine. Appears in Death on the Nile
Founder Member of Def Leppard
Founder Member of Def Leppard
Founder Member of Def Leppard
Founder Member of Def Leppard
Founder Member of Def Leppard
Leaves Thin Lizzy after the classic Gorham and Robertson guitar partnership reaches its end.
Plays for Detroit Express on loan from Birmingham City and scores heavily in the NASL.
Founder Member of Dexys Midnight Runners
Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates Courts Act 1978 reforms family proceedings in magistrates courts
The 1978 LP, Donovan was on Mosts RAK Records in the UK and on Clive Davis new Arista Records in the US; it reunited him for the last time with Most and Cameron, but was not well received at the height of the new wave and failed to chart.
Publication of "Earthly Powers"
999 release Emergency, one of the band's most enduring early punk songs.
Employment Protection Consolidation Act 1978 consolidates employment protection law
Named European Footballer of the Year, 1st time
Promotes closer monetary cooperation among European Community governments.
Promotes closer monetary cooperation that contributes to the European Monetary System.
Represents the Commission in international meetings and diplomatic visits.
Factory Records uses a creative team producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville which gives the label, and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image. British independent record label, started in 1978, featuring several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and James and OMD
Factory Records uses a creative team producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville which gives the label, and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image. British independent record label, started in 1978, featuring several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and James and OMD
Joy Division contribute two tracks recorded with producer Martin Hannett to the compilation double 7" EP A Factory Sample, the first release by Tony Wilson's record label Factory Records
Penetration release Firing Squad during their first sustained period of national recording and touring.
Sings Follow You Follow Me, Genesis's first major pop crossover single.
FWA Footballer of the Year
Forms the school band Arabicus Pulp at age fifteen, beginning the group that becomes Pulp.
Rhodes and John Taylor begin forming Duran Duran in Birmingham.
The Beat forms in Birmingham and combines ska, punk and reggae influences.
Campbell and fellow Birmingham musicians form the reggae band UB40.
X-Ray Spex release the Germ Free Adolescents album, combining punk energy with Poly Styrene's social commentary.
Founds HandMade Films
Hawkwind release Hawklords
Hurry Up Harry reaches the UK Top Ten during Sham 69's commercial peak.
Interpretation Act 1978 consolidates statutory interpretation rules
Album, "All Mod Cons"
Joy Division contribute two tracks recorded with producer Martin Hannett to the compilation double 7" EP A Factory Sample, the first release by Tony Wilson's record label Factory Records
Becomes Joy Divisions manager
Joy Division contribute two tracks recorded with producer Martin Hannett to the compilation double 7" EP A Factory Sample, the first release by Tony Wilson's record label Factory Records
Joy Division contribute two tracks recorded with producer Martin Hannett to the compilation double 7" EP A Factory Sample, the first release by Tony Wilson's record label Factory Records
Joy Division contribute two tracks recorded with producer Martin Hannett to the compilation double 7" EP A Factory Sample, the first release by Tony Wilson's record label Factory Records
Joy Division contribute two tracks recorded with producer Martin Hannett to the compilation double 7" EP A Factory Sample, the first release by Tony Wilson's record label Factory Records
Crowned champions of the First Division, finishing seven points clear of nearest challengers Liverpool. Clough becomes the first manager since Herbert Chapman to win the English Championship with two different clubs
In their first season after promotion Nottingham Forest win the League Cup, beating Liverpool F.C. 1-0 in a replay at Old Trafford
Appointed manager of Leeds United but, after just 45 days in charge at Elland Road, Stein resigns, accepting the position of Scotland manager
Penetration release Life's a Gamble during the period surrounding their successful debut album.
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe published Lifecloud about possible cosmic origins and dispersal of life.
Releases the studio album Luxury You Can Afford.
Apponted Manager of Aberdeen
Appointed manager of Leeds United but, after just 45 days in charge at Elland Road, Stein resigns, accepting the position of Scotland manager
Elected Member of Parliament for Garscadden
Appointed Member of National Executive Committee
During James Callaghan's government, louise Brown is born following in-vitro fertilisation developed by Patrick Steptoe and colleagues.
The Labour Party Government is in office as this NHS milestone occurs: Louise Brown is born following in-vitro fertilisation developed by Patrick Steptoe and colleagues.
This NHS development occurs while James Callaghan serves as Prime Minister: Louise Brown is born following in-vitro fertilisation developed by Patrick Steptoe and colleagues.
Releases Nice n Sleazy, a single showing the band's darker humour and sharp guitar attack.
Awarded the OBE
Awarded the OBE
Faces mounting union opposition to the five percent guideline.
Faces the collapse of the five percent policy after major private-sector settlements.
Warns that the five percent limit is politically dangerous and unrealistic.
Leads transport workers as pay restraint collapses into wider industrial conflict.
Healey backs a five percent pay guideline before the winter's industrial unrest.
Healey privately doubts whether the five percent limit can be sustained.
Warns ministers that a rigid five percent limit will be difficult to enforce.
Public sector workers reject low pay limits before the winter strikes.
Strike action challenges the government's five percent pay limit.
After the Sex Pistols disintegrated, Levene and Lydon co-founded Public Image Ltd (PiL)
After leaving the Pistols, Johnny Rotten reverts to his birth name of Lydon, and forms Public Image Ltd, with former Clash member Keith Levene and school friend Jah Wobble
Forms Public Image Ltd after leaving the Sex Pistols, moving toward post-punk and experimental rock.
After leaving the Pistols, Johnny Rotten reverts to his birth name of Lydon, and forms Public Image Ltd, with former Clash member Keith Levene and school friend Jah Wobble
After leaving the Pistols, Johnny Rotten reverts to his birth name of Lydon, and forms Public Image Ltd, with former Clash member Keith Levene and school friend Jah Wobble
Publishes A Nation or No Nation, a collection of political writings edited by Richard Ritchie.
8 out of 9 countries in the EC join the European Monetary System, Britain stays out
Sellers again portrays Inspector Clouseau in Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Performs with the Ruts around Britain's punk club circuit as the band builds a following through energetic live shows.
The Wickerman wins the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film
Appointed Secretary of Trade
999 release second album Separates during a prolific year of recording and touring.
Cook and Jones star in the McLaren-scripted The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, directed by Julien Temple, the movie is McLaren's fictionalised account of the Pistols history;
McLaren is accused by band members (most notably by John Lydon) of mismanaging them and refusing to pay them when they asked him for money & they split during the American tour.
Cook and Jones star in the McLaren-scripted The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, directed by Julien Temple, the movie is McLaren's fictionalised account of the Pistols history;
Edward Tudor-Pole replaces Johnny Rotten as vocalist for the Sex Pistols
Leaves the Sex Pistols after the band's first phase collapses, ending the original group's brief but highly influential punk career.
Continues writing and performing with the Slits as their music increasingly incorporates reggae rhythms and experimental arrangements.
Warns that rigid pay limits risk breaking the Social Contract.
Ian Gow and Airey Neave are both appointed to the Conservative front bench to share the duties as opposition spokesman on Northern Ireland
Ian Gow and Airey Neave are both appointed to the Conservative front bench to share the duties as opposition spokesman on Northern Ireland
State Immunity Act 1978 codifies rules on when foreign states are immune from UK court jurisdiction
The Adverts release Television's Over as their sound broadens beyond the rawest form of first-wave punk.
Stars in The Boys from Brazil
Stars in The Four Feathers
Works on The Great Rock n Roll Swindle project after the original band falls apart.
Directs footage that becomes central to The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Malcolm McLaren's version of the band's story.
Records the single, "Wuthering Heights". Records the Album, "The Kick Inside"
Siouxsie and the Banshees release debut album The Scream, establishing a darker and more experimental approach to post-punk.
Stars in The Swarm. Stars in Bullet to The Silver Bears
Theft Act 1978 creates offences involving deception and making off without payment
Magazine release Touch and Go as the band develops a more angular and experimental sound beyond first-wave punk.
Founder Member of Visage
Founder Member of Whitesnake
Founder Member of Whitesnake
Founder Member of Whitesnake
Founder Member of Whitesnake
Founder Member of Whitesnake
Founder Member of Whitesnake
The Who release Who Are You.
Records the single, "Wuthering Heights". Records the Album, "The Kick Inside"
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