BELFAST, May 27 — Following is a chronology of developments in Northern Ireland after pro-British Protestants voted on Saturday to return to a power-sharing government with Republican Catholics:

1968 - Roman Catholic minority launch civil rights campaign for better deal from Protestants. Riots follow.

1969 - Sectarian violence involving the IRA and Loyalist gunmen breaks out in Belfast as province slips into turmoil following Catholic civil rights protests. British army sent to Northern Ireland.

1972 - British troops kill 14 Catholic protesters on "Bloody Sunday" in Londonderry. Britain suspends Protestant-dominated administration at Stormont, near Belfast, and introduces direct rule.

1974 - Northern Ireland assembly introduced in January; 78 members are elected. Executive collapses in May after strike by Protestant workers against power-sharing. Direct rule resumes.

1979 - IRA steps up attacks on prominent Britons, killing ambassador to Netherlands Sir Richard Sykes, the Conservative party spokesman on Northern Ireland Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten, cousin of Queen Elizabeth, in separate attacks.

1984 - IRA bomb at British Conservative party conference kills five. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escapes injury.

1985 - Anglo-Irish agreement gives Dublin government consultative voice in daily running of Northern Ireland.

1991 - IRA mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. No one hurt.

1993 - Britain says it will not block an end to British rule if a majority want it and offers Sinn Fein a seat at peace talks if IRA violence ends.

1994 - IRA announces ceasefire in September. Pro-British "Loyalist" guerrillas follow weeks later.

1996 - IRA abandons ceasefire in February with a bomb in London's Docklands district, killing two people and wounding 100.

Multi-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland begin in Belfast in June but Sinn Fein is excluded.

1997 - IRA announces "unequivocal" ceasefire in July, two months after Tony Blair's Labour Party wins power. Six weeks later Sinn Fein joins peace talks for first time.

1998

April 10 - Good Friday, a deal is struck at talks between the British and Irish governments and eight political parties.

May 22 - Voters flock to polling stations north and south of the Irish border in a referendum which endorses the peace deal.

Jun 25 - Elections to the new Northern Ireland assembly take place; results on June 27 show supporters of the Good Friday peace deal won 80 seats and those opposed to it 28.

Aug 15 - A car bomb blast in Omagh, Northern Ireland, kills 29 people in the worst single attack in nearly 30 years of violence. The Real IRA splinter group claims responsibility on August 18, then declares an immediate ceasefire a day later.

Sept 14 - Power-sharing parliament starts work.

Dec 18 - Pro-British Loyalist Volunteer Force starts to hand over its weapons for decommissioning.

1999

July 2 - Britain and Ireland plan to set up a coalition Northern Ireland government and start a guerrilla arms handover.

July 15 - First Minister David Trimble leads Ulster Unionist boycott of the assembly and Seamus Mallon resigns as deputy first minister.

Sept 6 - U.S. peace mediator George Mitchell begins review of peace process.

Nov 17 - IRA says it ready to discuss disarmament once power-sharing government for Northern Ireland created.

Dec 1 - Northern Ireland gets its own government, a coalition of Protestants and Roman Catholics, ending 27 years of direct rule from London.

2000

Feb 11 - Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson suspends assembly over Protestant anger at lack of IRA disarmament.

Feb 15 - IRA announces it intends to end its involvement with the commission overseeing guerrilla disarmament.

March 25 - Trimble fights off a leadership challenge, but the party adds fresh conditions for rejoining the executive.

April 12 - Queen Elizabeth honours the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the George Cross—Britain's highest civilian award for gallantry.

April 18 - Blair begins fresh talks with his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern to try to restart the peace process.

May 5 - Britain and Ireland announce that Britain will reinstate the Belfast power-sharing executive if political parties and guerrilla groups embrace fresh proposals.

May 6 - Britain pushes back a May 22 deadline for IRA disarmament until June 2001.

May 6 - IRA announces it is ready to put its weapons into storage dumps and allow them to be inspected.

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Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and former South African union leader Cyril Ramaphosa will lead the inspections.

May 18 - Trimble delays vote on whether UUP should share power with Sinn Fein until May 27.

May 26 - Trimble meets unionist hardliner Jeffrey Donaldson, who demands the IRA disarm before his party can enter government with Sinn Fein.

May 27 - Unionists vote by 53 percent to 47 percent in favour of returning to a power-sharing government with Republicans.

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