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| 1976 |
| | | Harold Wilson unexpectedly resigns as the British prime minister and is succeeded by James Callaghan | |
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| 1979 |
| | | The Conservative party wins the general election and Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister | |
|  | Margaret Thatcher's election returns and writs in 1979
National Archives, Kew
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| 1981 |
| | | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan share a common economic viewpoint, following the policy known as monetarism | |
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| 1982 |
| | | 5000 Argentinian troops land in the Falkland Islands, provoking war with Britain | |
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| 1982 |
| | | British troops recapture Port Stanley, after which the Argentinian forces in the Falklands surrender | |
|  | Instrument of Surrender at the end of the Falklands War
National Archives, Kew
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| 1983 |
| | | British economist Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism in The Economic Consequences of Mrs Thatcher | |
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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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| 1985 |
| | | The miners' strike, ending after eleven bitter months, proves a turning point in the struggle between Margaret Thatcher and the unions | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Britain's Margaret Thatcher and Ireland's Garret FitzGerald sign an Anglo-Irish Agreement to tackle shared problems | |
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| 1989 |
| | | British prime minister Margaret Thatcher introduces an extremely unpopluar poll tax, last used in the Middle Ages | |
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