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Events relating to england
Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London
British artist Richard Long lays out his Slate Circle at the Tate Gallery in London
A conference in London, at Lancaster House, finally achieves agreement on Southern Rhodesia
The threat of a hunger strike persuades the British government to authorize S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), a television channel broadcasting in Welsh
The SDP hives off from Britain's Labour party – and seven years later merges with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan share a common economic viewpoint, following the policy known as monetarism
War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad
Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism
Australian entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch buys Britain's establishment newspaper, The Times, and its related titles
The Humber Bridge crosses the Humber estuary in Britain, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4626 feet (1410m)
Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral in London
English author Anita Brookner publishes her first novel, A Start in Life
Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson, dramatizes the rivalry between two British athletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics
British snooker player Steve Davis wins the first of six world championship titles
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, based on the Old Possum poems by T.S. Eliot, opens in London
Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end
British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, promoter of the punk style, shows a collection called Punkature
British director Richard Attenborough creates an epic film, Gandhi, from the life of the pacifist Indian leader
British economist Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism in The Economic Consequences of Mrs Thatcher
Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser is partly inspired by the British actor Donald Wolfit
On his 90th birthday Harold Macmillan is given Britain's last hereditary peerage, as Earl of Stockton
British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earn a perfect score for their Bolero programme in the Sarajevo winter Olympics
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and union leader Arthur Scargill begin a bitter personal struggle in the miners' strike
English athlete Daley Thompson sets an Olympic and world record in the decathlon at the Los Angeles Olympics
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot
