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| 1979 |
| | | A conference in London, at Lancaster House, finally achieves agreement on Southern Rhodesia | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold to Barcelona for a new record fee of about £3 million, almost double the highest previous figure | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Vikram Seth publishes his novel A Suitable Boy, a family saga in post-independence India | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Eduardo Paolozzi's vast bronze sculpture The Wealth of Nations is installed at South Kyle, near Edinburgh | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna dies when the steering column of his car shears during the San Marino Grand Prix | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile | |
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| 2012 January 13 |
| | | The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia crashes into a rock near the Italian island of Giglio, killing 32 people | |
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