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| Aid to Iraq Erdogan, Recep Tayyip |  |
| 21st April UN trucks filled with lentils & sugar enter nth Iraq from Turkey |
| Arrest Hussein, Saddam |  |
| 13th Dec Tikrit Found hiding in a spider hole during Operation Red Dawn & captured |
| 13th Dec Tikrit Saddam Hussein is captured by USAsoldiers in a 6ft by 8ft hole |
| Arrest Tikriti, Barzan Ibrahim El-Hasan al | |
| 17th April Arrested by USAforces, officials characterize him as a member of what they called "Saddam's Dirty Dozen", responsible for torture and murder in Iraq |
| Arrest Bush, George Walker |  |
| 13th Dec Tikrit Saddam Hussein is captured by USAsoldiers in a 6ft by 8ft hole |
| Arrest Jackson, Michael | |
| 20th Nov Gives himself up to police over allegations of child abuse |
| Arrest Mugabe, Robert Gabriel |  |
| June Morgan Tsvangirai is arrested twice, amid a week of opposition protests, he is charged with treason, adding to an existing treason charge from 2002 over an alleged plot to kill President Mugabe |
| Arrest Tsvangirai, Morgan | |
| June Morgan Tsvangirai is arrested twice, amid a week of opposition protests, he is charged with treason, adding to an existing treason charge from 2002 over an alleged plot to kill President Mugabe |
| Blair Brown Relations Brown, Gordon |  |
| Sep In a Conference speech Brown says Labour is "best when we are boldest, best when we are united, best when we are Labour", some see this as a challenge on Blair |
| Oct A new pact appeared to have been made by autumn 2003, with Brownites claiming Mr Blair would step down before the general election |
| Bloody Sunday Heath, Edward Richard George | |
| Gives evidence to the Saville Inquiry & states that he had never promoted or agreed to the use of unlawful lethal force in Northern Ireland |
| Bombing of Baghdad Hussein, Saddam | |
| 20th Mar Baghdad America begins the war with air strikes on Baghdad |
| Bombing of Baghdad Bush, George Walker | |
| 20th Mar Baghdad America begins the war with air strikes on Baghdad |
| Bombing of Erez Checkpoint Rantissi, Abdel Aziz al- |  |
| 8th June Gazarip Rantissi is responsible for directing the Hamas -led attack in which four Israeli soldiers are killed at the Erez Checkpoint in the Gaza Strip |
| Broadcast Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| May BBC Radio 4 "Today" says the Government "sexed up" the dossier of Iraq's weapons |
| Broadcast Laden, Osama bin |  |
| 11th Feb A bin Laden broadcast by al-Jazeera says, "we will fight for our brothers in Iraq" |
| Broadcast Bush, George Walker | |
| 17th Mar Bush addresses the nation, he demands that Hussein and his two sons Uday and Qusay leave Iraq, giving them a 48-hour deadline |
| Capture of Baghdad Bush, George Walker | |
| 9th April Baghdad Bush declares the end of major combat operations, terminating the Baath Party's ruleand removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from office |
| 9th April Baghdad The Iraqi military is defeated & Baghdad falls |
| Capture of Iraq Bush, George Walker | |
| 9th April Bush declares the end of major combat operations, terminating the Baath Party's ruleand removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from office |
| Ceasefire Vajpayee, Atal Behari |  |
| Nov Kashmir India matches Pakistan's declaration of a Kashmir ceasefire |
| Chief Minister Shinde, Sushil Kumar | |
| 15th Jan Maharashtra Appointed Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
| Chief Prosecutor Ok, Nuri | |
| 30th April Appointed Chief Prosecutor |
| Commonwealth Hillary, Edmund Percival |  |
| South Pole Zealand Committed to humanitarian work among the Sherpas through his Himalayan Trust and is made an honorary Nepalese citizen |
| Commonwealth Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| 7th Dec Zimbabwe is expelled from the Commonwealth |
| 7th Dec Zimbabwe pulls out of the Commonwealth after the organisation decides to extend suspension of country indefinitely |
| Composition Anderson, Ian | |
| Releases, "Rupi's Dance", solo |
| Conference of Labour Party Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| Oct At the Labour Party Conference Tony Blair suffers 2 defeats on foundation hospitals |
| Conference of Labour Party Brown, Gordon | |
| Sep In a Conference speech Brown says Labour is "best when we are boldest, best when we are united, best when we are Labour", some see this as a challenge on Blair |
| Constitution Abbas, Mahmoud | |
| Mar Serves as the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from March to October |
| Constitution Arafat, Yasser | |
| The office of Prime Minister is created by Parliament to curb Arafat's authority |
| Constitution Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| People with convictions can stand for political off |
| 20th April Says he would like the parliamentary system to be replaced by a presidential system |
| 23rd April Celebrations all over Turkey mark the 83rd anniversary of the foundation of Parliament |
| Cream Baker, Ginger | |
| A full-scale reunion of Cream with Clapton, Bruce and Baker playing 4 sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall (the scene of their 1968 farewell shows) |
| Cream Bruce, Jack | |
| A full-scale reunion of Cream with Clapton, Bruce and Baker playing 4 sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall (the scene of their 1968 farewell shows) |
| Cream Clapton, Eric Patrick | |
| A full-scale reunion of Cream with Clapton, Bruce and Baker playing 4 sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall (the scene of their 1968 farewell shows) |
| Death Galtieri, Leopoldo |  |
| 12th Jan Death of Leopoldo Galtieri |
| Death Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| July Death of David Kelly, an Iraq weapons inspector who commits suicide |
| 27th July British weapons expert David Kelly commits suicide after being identified as the source of a BBC story alleging the Government had "sexed-up" intelligence on Iraq's banned weapons |
| Death Jenkins, Roy | |
| 5th Jan Death of Roy Jenkins |
| Death Kelly, David | |
| 27th July British weapons expert David Kelly commits suicide after being identified as the source of a BBC story alleging the Government had "sexed-up" intelligence on Iraq's banned weapons |
| Death Landen, Dinsdale | |
| 29th Dec Death of Dinsdale Landen |
| Death Monkhouse, Bob | |
| 29th Dec Death of Bob Monkhouse |
| Death Most, Mickie | |
| 30th May Death of Mickie Most |
| Death Younger, George Kenneth Hotson | |
| Death of George Kenneth Hotson Younger |
| Death Kazan, Elia | |
| Death of Elia Kazan |
| Death Amin Dada, Idi |  |
| 16th Aug Death of Idi Amin Dada, in exile in SaudiArabia |
| Death Banana, Canaan | |
| Nov Death of Canaan Banana, Zimbabwe's first black president, dies aged 67 |
| Declaration of War Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 18th Mar Blair wins parliamentary vote over Iraq war but 139 party members defy him |
| Demonstrations Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| Feb Nationwide demonstrations against war in Iraq |
| 15th Feb Hyde Park At least 1 million demonstrate against the war in Iraq |
| Demonstrations Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| 23rd April 3,000 Greek & Turkish Cypriots cross the internal divide for the 1st time in 30 yrs |
| Demonstrations Bush, George Walker | |
| 15th Feb Anti-war protests are held, the largest of their kind since the Vietnam War took place with 6-10 million people in over 60 countries around the world |
| Demonstrations Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| June Morgan Tsvangirai is arrested twice, amid a week of opposition protests, he is charged with treason, adding to an existing treason charge from 2002 over an alleged plot to kill President Mugabe |
| Diplomacy Merkel, Angela Dorothea |  |
| defying strong public opposition, Merkel comes out in favour of the USAinvasion of Iraq, describing it as "unavoidable" and accusing Chancellor Gerhard Schr”der of anti-Americanism |
| Diplomacy Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 29th April Putin meets Blair & disagrees with the coalition's reasons for going to war with Iraq |
| Diplomacy Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Dec India & Pakistan agree to resume direct air links and to allow overflights |
| Diplomacy Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud |  |
| 5th Feb Iran makes an offer of negotiation with the USAthat coversNuclear matters and Iran's support for Palestinian groups resisting Israeli occupation, the offer is spurned by the Bush administration |
| 16th June Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declares that "Iran failed to report certainNuclear materials and activities" and requests "co-operative actions" from the country |
| Sep Washington says Iran is not complying with non-proliferation accords but agrees to support proposal from Britain, France and Germany to give Iran until end of October fully to discloseNuclear activities and allow surprise inspections |
| Nov Tehran agrees to suspend its uranium enrichment programme and allow tougher UN inspections of itsNuclear facilities |
| Dec Bam USAsends humanitarian aid to Iran after earthquake kills up to 50,000 people in city of Bam |
| Diplomacy Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| 6th April Kharrazi meets Turkish officials to discuss the war & the Kurdish enclave in Iraq |
| Diplomacy Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich |  |
| 29th April Putin meets Blair & disagrees with the coalition's reasons for going to war with Iraq |
| May The Russian Parliament ratifies the Offensive Reduction treaty |
| Diplomacy Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| 1st April Colin Powell leads a "fact-finding" mission for co-operation in a war with Iraq |
| 5th April Turkey expels 3 Iraqi diplomats |
| 6th April Kharrazi meets Turkish officials to discuss the war & the Kurdish enclave in Iraq |
| 11th April Ankara Schwimmer says Turkey's reform plans should be sufficient for EU membership |
| 18th April Erdogan says Turkey is the best country to rebuild Iraq |
| 22nd April The French Foreign Miniser praises Turkey's moderation & restraint during the war |
| 22nd April The French Foreign Miniser states the benefits of allowing Turkey into the EU |
| 30th April The Greek-Cypriot Government will lift it's trade embaro on the Turkish-Cypriots |
| Diplomacy Gul, Abdullah | |
| 1st April Ankara Colin Powell leads a "fact-finding" mission for co-operation in a war with Iraq |
| Diplomacy Bush, George Walker | |
| April Belfast Attends the Peace Summit in Northern Ireland, fails to secure a breakthrough |
| June White House refuses to ruleout the "military option" in dealing with Iran after IAEA says Iran "failed to report certainNuclear materials and activities" |
| 18th Nov London Arrives in Britain for a state visit |
| Diplomacy Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| 7th Dec Zimbabwe pulls out of the Commonwealth after the organisation decides to extend suspension of country indefinitely |
| Economy Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| 6th Feb The Bank of England cuts interest rates to 3.75%, lowest for 50 yrs |
| 10th Mar The FTSE-100 slumps to an 8 yr low |
| 9th June Finance minister Brown rules out British adoption of the EU euro, dashing |
