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| 1949 | Peron, Juan Domingo |  |
| 31st May Britain & Argentina agree a 5 yr trade treaty |
| 1982 | Galtieri, Leopoldo |  |
| 9th Jan The British Ambassador to Argentina lodges a formal protest against the unauthorised landing on South Georgia on 20 December 1981 by Argentine scrap-metal merchant Constantino Davidoff |
| 3rd Feb South Britain renews its formal protest at Davidoff's unauthorised landing in South Georgia |
| 2nd Mar The Argentine foreign minister says that Argentina reserves the right to 'employ other means' if Britain keeps refusing to cede sovereignty |
| 1st April Reagan warns Argentine junta leader General Galtieri not to take military action |
| 19th April Argentina rejects Haig's 5 point peace plan & London is informed |
| 19th April Argentina rejects Haig's plan unless Britain agrees to transfer sovereignty by 31 December 1982 and allow Argentine nationals to settle in the Islands |
| 29th April Argentina rejects Haig proposals |
| 2nd May Peruvian President Belaunde Terry presents a peace proposal to Galtieri who gives preliminary acceptance with some modifications |
| 3rd May Galtieri rejects Peruvian peace plan, citing General Belgrano |
| 3rd May Rejects the Peruvian peace plan, cites the sinking of the Belgrano |
| 6th May Argentine junta rejects Peruvian peace plan |
| 6th May The Junta rejects the Peruvian peace plan for a 2nd time |
| 10th May Argentina declares the entire South Atlantic a war zone |
| 12th May Argentine junta concedes that sovereignty of the Islands isn't a precondition to the United Nations peace plan |
| 12th May The Junta concedes that "sovereignty not a precondition" |
| 18th May Argentine junta rejects British peace proposals |
| 18th May The Junta rejects the British proposals |
| 29th May Organisation of American States condemns Britain's military action and calls on the USAto stop helping Britain - only the US, Chile, Columbia and Trinidad & Tobago abstain |
| 1982 | Ros, Ernesto |  |
| 25th Feb Falklands Deputy foreign minister Richard Luce begins sovereignty talks with his Argentine counterpart Ernesto Ros in New York |
| 1st Mar Falklands British and Argentine deputy foreign ministers issue a joint communique praising the 'cordial and positive spirit' of sovereignty discussions held in New York |