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| 1963 |
| | | Terence O'Neill succeeds Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) as Northern Ireland's prime minister | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Terence O'Neill and Séan Lemass, prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland, have two unprecedented meetings | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins critical acclaim for Death of a Naturalist, his first volume containing more than a few poems | |
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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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| 1969 |
| | | The Northern Irish player George Best is voted European Footballer of the Year | |
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| 1970 |
| | | The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is formed in northern Ireland as a coalition of Catholic nationalists and civil-rights campaigners | |
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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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| 1984 |
| | | Republican activist Gerry Adams is elected president of Sinn Fein | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The IRA declares a cease-fire in Northern Ireland, a gesture followed a month later by Protestant paramilitaries | |
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