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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
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1979
5.4.1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1984
10.12.1984
Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
12.19.1984
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1985
11.15.1985
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1986
10.29.1986
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1987
7.29.1987
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1988
1.3.1988
Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
1989
4.1.1989
Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1990
11.22.1990
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
1992
6.30.1992
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher.