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| 100 Greatest Britons Lennon, John Winston |  |
| Lennon is included in the top 10 of the 2002 "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public |
| Al Qaeda Laden, Osama bin |  |
| 22nd Mar Abu Zubaydah believed to have served as Osama Bin Laden's field commander and chief recruiter is captured during a raid on a house in Pakistan |
| 11th April Kuta Arabia Two bombs rip through a nightclub area in the Balinese town of Kuta killing 202 people most of them foreign tourists, Indonesian authorities believe the attacksare carried out by the South East Asian network Jemaah Islamiah, linked to Al Qaeda |
| Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia Zubaydah, Abu |  |
| 22nd Mar Abu Zubaydah believed to have served as Osama Bin Laden's field commander and chief recruiter is captured during a raid on a house in Pakistan |
| Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia Padilla, Jose |  |
| 8th May Chicago USAauthorities announce the arrest of an American citizen they accuse of planning to build and detonate a bomb containing radioactive material, Jose Padilla, is detained Chicago airport after arriving from Pakistan |
| Ambassador Dalton, Richard | |
| Sep Appointed Ambassador to Iran |
| Anniversary Elizabeth II | |
| Celebrates 50 yrs as Queen |
| Arrest Zubaydah, Abu | |
| 22nd Mar Abu Zubaydah believed to have served as Osama Bin Laden's field commander and chief recruiter is captured during a raid on a house in Pakistan |
| Arrest Bush, George Walker | |
| 11th Jan Guantanamo Bay The 1st al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay |
| Authorization for Use of Military Force Bush, George Walker | |
| 11th Oct The United States Congress passed the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" |
| Axis of Evil Bush, George Walker | |
| 29th Jan President George Bush, in his State of the Union address, describes Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil" |
| Bombing of Bombay Vajpayee, Atal Behari |  |
| Aug Bombay At least 50 people are killed in two simultaneous bomb blasts in Bombay |
| Bombing of Djerba Laden, Osama bin | |
| 11th April Djerba Arabia A fuel tanker is blown up outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba killing 19 people including 14 German tourists, an al Qaeda spokesman later says the organisation is behind the suicide attack |
| Bombing of Kuta Laden, Osama bin | |
| 11th April Kuta Arabia Two bombs rip through a nightclub area in the Balinese town of Kuta killing 202 people most of them foreign tourists, Indonesian authorities believe the attacksare carried out by the South East Asian network Jemaah Islamiah, linked to Al Qaeda |
| Bombing of New York Binalshibh, Ramzi | |
| 11th Sep Karachi Pakisat Ramzi Binalshibh is arrested in Karachi on the anniversary of the attacks on America. He is accused of being a leading member of alQaeda and one of the main planners of the 11 September attacks |
| Budget Brown, Gordon | |
| Increases national insurance to pay for health spending |
| Buzzcocks Devoto, Howard | |
| Shelley and Devoto teamed up for the first time since 1976, producing the album Buzzkunst, a play on the German word for 'Art' |
| Buzzcocks Shelley, Pete | |
| Shelley and Devoto teamed up for the first time since 1976, producing the album Buzzkunst, a play on the German word for 'Art' |
| Censorship Mugabe, Robert Gabriel |  |
| Parliament passes a law limiting media freedom |
| Chairwoman CDU CSU Merkel, Angela Dorothea |  |
| Appointed Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005 |
| Commission Sept 11th Bush, George Walker | |
| 21st Nov Bush creates a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Sept 11, 2001 |
| Commonwealth Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar The Commonwealth suspends Zimbabwe from its councils for a year after concluding that elections were marred by high levels of violence |
| Sep The Commonwealth committee - including leaders of SouthAfrica, Nigeria and Australia - fails to agree on further sanctions against President Mugabe |
| Composition Gabriel, Peter | |
| "Long Walk Home", the music from the Australian movie Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| Releaes "Up", his first full-length studio album in a decade |
| Composition Squire, John | |
| Squire releases his first solo album, "Time Changes Everything" |
| Composition Weller, Paul | |
| Weller releases the No. 1 hit album "Illumination" |
| Constitution Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| Oct Northern Ireland returns to direct rulefrom London after the suspension of the local assembly following allegations of Irish Republican Army spying |
| Constitution Bhutto, Benazir | |
| Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf amends Pakistan's Constitution to ban prime ministers from serving more than two terms, this disqualifies Bhutto from ever holding the office again |
| Constitution Musharraf, Pervez | |
| Musharraf forcibly removes many of the Supreme Court Justices who had voted against his usurpation of power including Justice Taqi Usmani, a world authority on International financial law and Constitutional law |
| Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf amends Pakistan's Constitution to ban prime ministers from serving more than two terms, this disqualifies Bhutto from ever holding the office again |
| Constitution Usmani, Taqi | |
| Musharraf forcibly removes many of the Supreme Court Justices who had voted against his usurpation of power including Justice Taqi Usmani, a world authority on International financial law and Constitutional law |
| Constitution Sezer, Ahmet Necdet |  |
| Jan Women are given full legal equality with men |
| Dean Benedict XVI |  |
| 30th Nov Appointed Dean of the College of Cardinals |
| Death Milstein, Cesar | |
| 24th Mar Death of Cesar Milstein |
| Death Strummer, Joe | |
| Death of Joe Strummer, from a congenital heart defect at the age of 50 |
| Death Ecevit, Bulent | |
| Aug Istanbul The death sentence is abolished, except in times of war |
| Diplomacy Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| June India & China reach de facto agreement over status of Tibet and Sikkim |
| June The UK & USAurge their citizens to leave India and Pakistan |
| Diplomacy Musharraf, Pervez | |
| 12th Feb Musharraf gives a landmark speech against Islamic extremism, He unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism, including those carried out in the name of freeing Kashmir's Muslim majority from Indian rule |
| Diplomacy Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich |  |
| May Russian & NATO agree to establish a NATO-Russia Council |
| May Russia & the USA announce a new agreement on strategicNuclear weapons reduction |
| May Russia & the USA will cut theirNuclear arsenals from 6,000 to 2,000 over 10 yrs |
| Diplomacy Shui-bian, Chen |  |
| July Nauru Taiwan cuts diplomatic relations with Nauru after it establishes relations with China |
| Diplomacy Sezer, Ahmet Necdet | |
| Feb The Swiss bank UBS pulls out of the Ilisu dam project |
| Mar Turkey signs an agreement with Greece to supply gas |
| Diplomacy Bush, George Walker | |
| 29th Jan President George Bush, in his State of the Union address, describes Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil" |
| Sep Russian technicians begin construction of Iran's firstNuclear reactor at Bushehr despite strong objections from US |
| Dec The USAaccuses Iran of seeking to develop a secretNuclear weapons programme and publishes satellite images of twoNuclear sites under construction at Natanz and Arak |
| Diplomacy Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| The European Union imposes sanctions on Zimbabwe and pulls out its election observers after the EU team leader is expelled |
| Dismissal Usmani, Taqi | |
| Musharraf forcibly removes many of the Supreme Court Justices who had voted against his usurpation of power including Justice Taqi Usmani, a world authority on International financial law and Constitutional law |
| Economy Made, Joseph | |
| Agriculture Minister Joseph Made says the land-grab is over, he says the Government has seized 35m acres of land from white farmers |
| Economy Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Agriculture Minister Joseph Made says the land-grab is over, he says the Government has seized 35m acres of land from white farmers |
| A state of disaster is declared as worsening food shortages threaten famine, the Government blames drought, the UN's World Food Programme says disruption to agriculture is a contributing factor |
| The European Union imposes sanctions on Zimbabwe and pulls out its election observers after the EU team leader is expelled |
| Sep The Commonwealth committee - including leaders of SouthAfrica, Nigeria and Australia - fails to agree on further sanctions against President Mugabe |
| Election Silva, Luiz Inacio Lula da |  |
| Elected President of Brazil |
| Election Chirac, Jacques |  |
| April Parties outside the National Front call for opposing Le Pen in favour of Chirac |
| April "We must reject extremism in the name of the honor of France in the name of the unity" |
| Election Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| July Elected President |
| Election Bhutto, Benazir | |
| Oct Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition Government with Musharraf's party, PML-Q |
| Oct The Bhutto-led PPP secures the highest number of votes (28.42%) and eighty seats (23.16%) in the national assembly in the October 2002 general elections |
| Election Hayet, Makhdoom Faisal Saleh | |
| Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition Government with Musharraf's party, PML-Q |
| Election Musharraf, Pervez | |
| Oct Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition Government with Musharraf's party, PML-Q |
| Oct General elections were held and a plurality of the seats in the Parliament is won by the PML-Q, a pro-Musharraf party consisting of feudal landlords |
| Election Gul, Abdullah | |
| Nov The Islamist based Justice & Development party wins a landslide victory |
| Election Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar Mugabe is re-elected in presidential elections condemned as seriously flawed by the opposition and foreign observers |
| Mar Mugabe wins 56.0 % at the presidential elections of 9 March - 11 March |
| Mar The Commonwealth suspends Zimbabwe from its councils for a year after concluding that elections were marred by high levels of violence |
| English Football Hall of Fame Clough, Brian | |
| Clough is made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact as manager |
| English Football Hall of Fame Keegan, Joseph Kevin | |
| Made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game as both a player and manager |
| English Football Hall of Fame Matthews, Stanley | |
| Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame |
| European Union Miller, Leszek |  |
| Dec The EU summit invites Poland to join the EU by 2004 |
| European Union Ecevit, Bulent | |
| Aug Istanbul Parliament approves reforms aimed at securing EU membership |
| Expulsion Peasants Party Miller, Leszek | |
| Expelled for ojecting to tax reforms |
| Miller presides over a minority government |
| The Peasants Party is expelled from the government |
| Ford Foundation Fellowship Khan, Irene Zubaida |  |
| Khan receives a Ford Foundation Fellowship and the Pilkington "Woman of the Year" Award |
| French National Assembly Fabius, Laurent | |
| 16th Aug Appoinred Member of the French National Assembly for the fourth consistuency of Seine Maritime |
| Health Best, George | |
| London Best has a liver transplant at King's College Hospital in London |
| High Commissioner Mello, S‚rgio Vieira de | |
| 12th Sep Appointed High Commissioners for Human Rights for the United Nations |
| Inauguration of Kalam Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| 25th July Sworn in as President of India |
| Invasion of Iraq Bush, George Walker | |
| 11th Oct Authority to attack Iraq if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein does not give up his weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and abide by previous UN resolutions on human rights, POWs, and terrorism |
| 11th Oct The United States Congress passed the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" |
| Invasion of Iraq Rice, Condoleezza | |
| 8th Dec After Iraq delivered its declaration of weapons of mass destruction to the United Nations on December 8, 2002, Rice wrote an editorial for The New York Times entitled Why We Know Iraq Is Lying |
| 8th Dec States regarding Iraqi WMD: "The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquireNuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" |
| Knighthood Robson, "Bobby" Robert William | |
| Robson is knighted |
| Legislation Sezer, Ahmet Necdet | |
| Jan Women are given full legal equality with men |
| Nuclear Warfare Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Jan India fires aNuclear-capable ballistic missile, the Agni, off its eastern coast |
| Nuclear Warfare Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud |  |
| Sep Bushehr Russian technicians begin construction of Iran's firstNuclear reactor at Bushehr despite strong objections from US |
| Dec The USAaccuses Iran of seeking to develop a secretNuclear weapons programme and publishes satellite images of twoNuclear sites under construction at Natanz and Arak |
| Nuclear Warfare Bush, George Walker | |
| Sep Russian technicians begin construction of Iran's firstNuclear reactor at Bushehr despite strong objections from US |
| Dec The USAaccuses Iran of seeking to develop a secretNuclear weapons programme and publishes satellite images of twoNuclear sites under construction at Natanz and Arak |
| 17th Dec Orders the construction by 2004 of a limited missile defense shield |
| OBE Carmichael, Ian | |
| Awarded the OBE |
| ODPM Prescott, John | |
| The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is created as a Government Dept |
| Operation Defensive Wall Sharon, Ariel |  |
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