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After 18 years in the USA, living in Vermont, Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to post-Communist Russia
Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza, has its premiere in Berlin
The collapse of Sylvio Berlusconi's coaltion brings to an end his short-lived first period as Italy's prime minister
Potholers discover the world's oldest known paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France
Russian troops enter Chechnya to crush the armed separatist movement
Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands
British mathematician Andrew Wiles publishes, in Annals of Mathematics, his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Jacques Chirac defeats the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, in the French presidential election
British choreographer Matthew Bourne has a great success with his all-male Swan Lake
Bosnian Serbs massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims after laying siege to the town of Srebrenica
British artist Tracey Emin causes a stir with Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995
The US hosts peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia to end the Bosnian civil war
An IRA bomb at Canary Wharf shatters the fifteen-month ceasefire achieved after the Downing Street Declaration
The Stone of Scone is returned from Westminster to Scotland, exactly seven centuries after its removal by Edward I
Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin is embellished with elephant dung
The British pop group Spice Girls sell millions of their first album, Spice>/I>, breaking all previous UK records
The divorce is finalized of Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales
Russian troops withdraw from Grozny after a peace deal that leaves Chechnya with effective autonomy
Irish author Marina Carr's play Portia Coughlin is performed at the Abbey Theatre
A fatal variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease) is first identified in Britain, linked to BSE but capable of infecting humans
Dolly the Sheep is cloned in an epoch-making experiment at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh
Tony Blair leads the Labour party to its greatest ever electoral victory, winning 418 seats at Westminster
Danish choreographer Peter Schaufuss founds his own ballet company at Holstebro
Fifteen years after the Falklands War there are 1700 British troops in the islands, guarding 2200 residents
Irish author Martin McDonagh's play The Beauty Queen of Leenane is the first in a trilogy
