Sources: BBC
Rioting takes place in Plymouth and Birmingham, England, while police are attacked with molotov cocktails in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the number of people arrested rises to 400. 2024-08-5
A former British paratrooper will stand trial in the killing of two civil rights protesters during a massacre, where British soldiers shot 13 protesters during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. 2023-12-14
The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. The new cities are Milton Keynes, Colchester, and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Wrexham in Wales, and Bangor in Northern Ireland, as well as Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Douglas, Isle of Man, which become the first towns in the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, respectively, to receive city status. 2022-05-20
A total of 56 police officers are injured in Belfast, Northern Ireland after a night of Ulster loyalism rioting. 2013-08-10
United Kingdom assumes presidency of G8 group. Next G8 summit is to be held on the shores of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June 2013. 2013-01-1
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former IRA commander and Sinn Féin deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness shake hands at a historic meeting in Belfast. 2012-06-27
People are hospitalised after sectarian clashes in East Belfast in Northern Ireland. 2011-06-20
Three Northern Ireland police officers are injured after a bomb is thrown at them while investigating a robbery in West Belfast. 2010-11-6
A controlled explosion is carried out on a device discovered beneath the car of a serving soldier, believed to be an army major, in Bangor, County Down in Northern Ireland. 2010-08-4
Almost 25,000 homes remain powerless after part of Northern Ireland's electricity network is knocked out. 2010-04-1