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1 March – Labour MP Tony Benn is returned to parliament after winning the Chesterfield by-election, having lost his previous seat at the general election last year.; 2 March – Just five months after becoming Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock's ambition of becoming Prime Minister at the next election (due to be held by June 1988) are given a boost when Labour come top of a MORI poll with 41 ...
2 April – Youth gangs run riot in Wolverhampton, looting from shops. [1]4 April – Peace protesters evicted from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. [2]17 April – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London in the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege. 11 other people are also shot but survive.
The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that the government deemed "uneconomic" in the coal industry, which had been nationalised in 1947.
Sri Lankan Civil War, 1984 Mannar massacre: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill over 200 civilians in the town of Mannar. Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers. December 19 – The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
19 July – The Lleyn Peninsula earthquake, which strikes the Llŷn Peninsula at 06:56 UTC (07:56 BST), measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, is the largest known onshore earthquake to occur in the UK since instrumental measurements began. [9] 4 October – Dafydd Wigley resigns as leader of Plaid Cymru for domestic reasons. [10]
1984 events in the United Kingdom by month (12 C) 1984 disestablishments in the United Kingdom (8 C, 21 P) 1984 establishments in the United Kingdom (9 C, 79 P)
1984 was a year of several huge selling releases, including at the time the biggest selling single ever. Six singles this year sold over a million copies, the joint highest number ever along with 1998. Out of the top 10 biggest selling songs of the 1980s, six of them all peaked in 1984 including the entire top 4.
October 1984 events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 3 P) November 1984 events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 3 P) December 1984 events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 6 P)