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| 1984 |
| | | On his 90th birthday Harold Macmillan is given Britain's last hereditary peerage, as Earl of Stockton | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earn a perfect score for their Bolero programme in the Sarajevo winter Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Milos Forman directs the screen version of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and union leader Arthur Scargill begin a bitter personal struggle in the miners' strike | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The name of Upper Volta is changed to Burkina Faso, meaning 'land of incorruptible people' | |
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| 1984 |
| | | New additions to St Mary's are completed, designed by Edward Cullinan, to replace the parts destroyed by the fire of 1978 | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the title role, that of an almost silent killing machine, in The Terminator | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Czech novelist Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the tradition of magic realism | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Drugs barons in Colombia murder the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, to protect their trade | |
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