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London timeline
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
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
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath
A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Elton John sings a revised version of Candle in the Wind in Westminster Abbey, as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales
The Real IRA, a splinter group of the Provisional IRA, declares its commitment to a continuing campaign of violence
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport
Garrick's Temple is restored and opens to the public and houses an exhibition on David Garrick's life
A proposed referendum on northern Irish issues is accepted by all the relevant political parties in what becomes known as the Good Friday Agreement
In the referendum to endorse the Good Friday Agreement, the terms are accepted by majorities in both the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England
Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen dramatizes the visit of Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in wartime Denmark
The Real IRA kills 26 people and injures about 200 with a bomb planted in Omagh, in northern Ireland
John Madden directs Shakespeare in Love, a romantic comedy set in Elizabethan London
Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge
The lawn and gardens surrounding Garrick's Temple are re-landscaped and replanted to replicate something of its appearance in Garrick's day
Libya hands over, for trial in the Hague, two men suspected of causing the Lockerbie disaster of 1988
Chromosome 22 becomes the first human genome to be fully sequenced, at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England
The new Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended because of IRA failure to decommission arms
The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile
