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30 March – Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the House of Commons car park. [11] 31 March – The Royal Navy withdraws from Malta as ordered by Maltese President Anton Buttigieg .
In July 1845, however, Polk proposed a compromise to the British, offering to establish the boundary at the 49th parallel while granting Britain full control of Vancouver Island. With war in Mexico appearing ever more likely, the President wanted to avoid a simultaneous war with Britain.
Oct 30, 2009 · What the British historian and eye-witness Timothy Garton Ash has called the "refolution" (reform plus revolution) that swept Central and Eastern Europe was a splendid thing, not least because...
The old landmarks of post-war Britain seemed to be disappearing. Concern was most memorably expressed by Roy Jenkins, now president of the European Union, in his Richard Dimbleby radio lecture of 1979. He quoted W.B Yeats’s famous poem on the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. ‘The Centre cannot hold.
- Kenneth O. Morgan
- 2017
Feb 5, 2018 · This general view was epitomised when Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan, flying back from an international summit in Guadeloupe to strike-torn Britain on January 10, 1979, famously dismissed allegations of “mounting chaos in the country,” justifying The Sun’s next day headline “Crisis? What Crisis?”
- Stéphane Porion
- 2016
Jan 24, 2007 · The 'Winter of Discontent' marked the largest stoppage of labour since the 1926 General Strike. The factors that provoked the widespread stoppage of work by thousands of British workers in the winter of 1978-79 began with the Labour government of James Callaghan's attempt to enforce limits on pay rises to curb inflation.
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June 18, 1812. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That war be and the same is hereby declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their territories; and that the President ...
