Timeline: A brief history of the bombing and killings of ‘The Troubles’

1970s

Jun/Jul 1970 - Dozens die in battles in Northern Ireland between loyalists and British troops.

Jul 2 1970 - Police snatch London gun cache.

Jul 8 1971 - British troops shoot Londonderry rioters, killing two men.

Aug 8 1971 - British Army kill ‘unarmed’ disabled man Eamon McDevitt.

Oct 23 1971 - British Army kill two women at Belfast checkpoint.

Oct 31 1971 - Bomb explodes in London Post Office tower.

Dec 4 1971 - Loyalist paramilitary bomb demolishes Belfast pub killing 15.

Jan 30 1972 - British Army kills 13 ‘unarmed’ people in civil rights protest known as ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Bogside district of Londonderry.

Apr 19 1972 - Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ report excuses Army.

Feb 22 1972 - Five women and Catholic Army priest killed by IRA ‘Bloody Sunday’ revenge bomb at Aldershot barracks.

Aug 21 1973 - Londonderry City coroner Major Hubert O'Neill accuses the British Army of “sheer unadulterated murder” at ‘Bloody Sunday’ inquest.

Sep 10 1973 - Bomb blasts injure 13 in central London.

Nov 14 1973 - Eight members of IRA gang convicted of two London car bombings that killed one and injured nearly 200.

Feb 4 1974 - Twelve people, including nine off-duty soldiers and two young children, killed in bombing of coach on M62 near Bradford.

Apr 20 1974 - ‘Troubles’ death toll hits 1,000.

May 17 1974 - Loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force car bombings kill 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan, including a pregnant woman and a stillborn child.

Jun 17 1974 - IRA bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament injuring 11 people.

Jul 17 1974 - Bomb blast at the Tower of London kills woman and leaves 41 injured, included eight children with lost limbs and severe facial injuries.

Oct 5 1974 - Four soldiers and a civilian killed in bomb blasts at two Guilford pubs. Sixty five people injured.

Oct 22 1974 - Bomb blast in Brooks Club, London injures three members of staff. Conservative Party leader Edward Heath was dining nearby.

Oct 28 1974 - The wife and young son of Sports Minister Denis Howell survive a bomb attack on their car in Birmingham.

Nov 7 1974 - Two dead after IRA throws bomb into Woolwich pub.

Nov 21 1974 - Two Birmingham pub blasts kill 21 people and injure more than 180.

Dec 18 1974 - The Government announces it will pay £42,000 in compensation to the relatives of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ victims.

Dec 22 1974 - London home of the Conservative leader and former Prime Minister Edward Heath bombed. He was not at home but arrived 10 minutes later.

July 31 1975 - The Miami Showband musical group, one of Ireland's most popular cabaret bands, murdered by members of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force in South Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Sep 5 1975 - Two people killed and 63 injured when IRA bomb explodes in the lobby of the London Hilton hotel.

Sep 22 1975 - Around 17 IRA bombings across Northern Ireland injure 12 people.

Nov 27 1975 - Guinness Book of Records co-founder, editor and TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead outside London home. Mr McWhirter had offered a reward of £50,000 for information leading to the arrest of IRA bombers.

Dec 6 1975 - Four gunmen behind McWhirter murder flee police and take couple hostage. The Balcombe Street siege lasted six days.

Jan 4 1976 - Six Catholics die in loyalist attacks in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Jan 5 1976 - Kingsmill Massacre. Ten Protestant men shot dead as they were returning home from work in a mini-bus in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Jan 29 1976 - IRA explosions rock London’s West End injuring a taxi driver.

Oct 15 1976 - Two Ulster Defence Regiment men jailed for 35 years in connection with the murders of members of the Miami Showband.

Feb 17 1978 - La Mon restaurant bomb in County Down, Northern Ireland kills 12 people, including children, and injures 30 others.

Jun 21 1978 - Three IRA members and one civilian die in post office shootout.

Mar 22 1979 - IRA assassinates British ambassador in Holland Sir Richard Sykes outside his Dutch home, also killing Dutch footman.

Mar 30 1979 - Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave killed by IRA car bomb.

Aug 27 1979 - The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, killed by IRA bomb blast on his boat in Ireland. One of the earl's twin grandsons, Nicholas, aged 14, and boat boy Paul Maxwell, aged 15, also die in the explosion. Another passenger, Dowager Lady Brabourne, aged 82, died the day after the attack.

Aug 27 1979 - Eighteen soldiers and one civilian killed in Warrenpoint Massacre by two IRA booby-trap bomb attacks at Warrenpoint, South Down. It was the British Army's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the Troubles.

Sep 5 1979 - Lord Mountbatten buried after final parade.

1980s

Jul 20 1982 - Eleven people including eight soldiers killed on ceremonial duty in two IRA bomb blasts in central London.

Oct 27 1982 - Three police officers killed by IRA bomb planted beneath their armoured car.

Dec 4 1983 - Undercover SAS soldiers shoot dead two IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland.

Dec 17 1983 - IRA car bomb blast kills three police officers and three members of the public, injuring 90 at Harrods department store, London.

Oct 12 1984 - Five die in IRA bomb attack at the Conservative party conference in Brighton. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Dennis narrowly escape injury.

Jun 25 1985 - Thirteen people arrested in connection with IRA mainland bombing campaign including Brighton attack.

Mar 23 1987 - Thirty-one people injured after car bomb explodes at British army base in West Germany.

Nov 8 1987 - Bomb explodes during Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, killing 11 people. At least 63 people injured and another later dies. The IRA lost support worldwide after the bombing.

Mar 6 1988 - SAS team shoots dead three IRA members in Gibraltar

Mar 16 1988 - Loyalist gunman kills three mourners and injures around 50 people attending a funeral at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast for IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.

Mar 19 1988 - The Corporals Killings. Two British Army corporals abducted, beaten and killed after they drove into the funeral of an IRA volunteer killed in a loyalist attack. Fully captured by television cameras, the incident was described as one of the most dramatic and harrowing images of the conflict.

Aug 1 1988 - One killed and nine wounded at Inglis Barracks in North London by IRA bomb.

Feb 12 1989 - Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane murdered at his home in north Belfast. His most famous client was republican hunger striker Bobby Sands and he was involved in the defence cases for 23 men involved with the Corporals Killings.

Feb 20 1989 - IRA bombs Tern Hill barracks

Mar 20 1989 - Two senior Royal Ulster Constabulary officers shot dead by the IRA in Armagh.

Sep 22 1989 - Eleven young soldiers killed after IRA bomb blows apart the recreation centre at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent.

1990s

Jul 20 1990 - IRA bombs Stock Exchange.

Jun 3 1991 - Three IRA gunmen shot dead by the British Army in Northern Ireland.

Apr 10 1992 - IRA bomb Baltic exchange in London killing three people, including 15-year old girl. The bomb caused £800m worth of damage.

Jul 2 1992 - IRA admits killing three ‘informers’ found in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Dec 3 1992 - Two bomb explosions in Manchester injure 64 people and cause damage and business losses estimated to total £10m.

Feb 26 1993 - First IRA attack on Warrington at Winwick Road gas works

Mar 20 1993 - Second IRA attack on Warrington kills Johnathan Ball, aged three, and Tim Parry, aged 12, and injures 56 other people.

Apr 24 1993 - The IRA Bishopsgate bombing kills one and injures 44, causing £350 million in damage.

Feb 10 1996 - Two killed and 39 injured in IRA London Docklands bombing that ends 17-month IRA ceasefire.

Feb 18 1996 - Eleven people hurt after bomb explodes on a double decker bus in the heart of London's West End.

Jun 15 1996 - Huge explosion near Arndale shopping centre rocks central Manchester injuring more than 200 people. The largest IRA bomb detonated in Great Britain and the largest bomb to explode in Great Britain since the Second World War, it causes more than £400m worth of damage.

Apr 5 1997 - Grand National stopped over two coded bomb threats.

Dec 27 1997 - Loyalist leader Billy Wright shot dead inside maximum security Maze prison in Northern Ireland by prisoners of the Irish splinter republican group the Irish National Liberation Army.

Jul 12 1998 - Three young Catholic brothers aged seven to 11 murdered in loyalist arson attack in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland during Drumcree march protests after petrol bomb thrown through window of their home.

Aug 15 1998 - Twenty nine people including nine children and a woman pregnant with twins killed in Real IRA car bombing of the market town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

2000s

Feb 6 2000 - Bomb attack on Co Fermanagh hotel by IRA splinter group.

Mar 3 2001 - Suspected Real IRA car bomb explodes outside BBC headquarters, wounding one man.

May 6 2001 - Real IRA bomb explodes at London post office – a second attack in three weeks.

Aug 3 2001 - Car bomb in west London injures seven people.

Jan 31 2005 - Robert McCartney murdered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, allegedly by IRA.

Jul 28 2005 - The IRA orders an end to its armed campaign.

March 7 2009 - Real IRA shoot two unarmed soldiers dead outside Massereene Barracks