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| 1963 |
| | | Macmillan resigns on grounds of ill health and is succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home as UK premier | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Harold Wilson becomes prime minister after Labour narrowly wins the UK general election | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Winston Churchill dies, and lies in state in London's ancient Westminster Hall | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Provisional IRA reintroduces terrorism to northern Ireland after Protestants attack a civil rights march | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Edward Heath is prime minister after leading the Conservatives to UK election victory | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Gerry Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of evidence | |
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| 1972 |
| | | British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday | |
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