The Provisional Irish Republican Army's ( IRA ) campaign against the partition of Ireland had begun in the two years prior to Bloody Sunday, but public perceptions of the day boosted the status of, and recruitment into, the organisation enormously.

* 1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.

* October 27 – Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison refuse food and demand status as political prisoners ; the hunger strike lasts until December.

* March 1 – Bobby Sands, a Provisional Irish Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison ( he dies May 5, the first of 10 men ).

The UVF's goal was to combat Irish republicanism – particularly the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) – and maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom.

Once successfully completed, " Provisional Registration " is given by the GTCS which is raised to " Full Registration " status after a year if there is sufficient evidence to show that the " Standard for Full Registration " has been met.

The Provisional Government freely administered the region despite its lack of official status until the U. S. Territory of Colorado was organized in 1861.

Provisional status is reserved for members in their first year of membership, which is dedicated to training.

Also that year, the NLF set up a ' Provisional Revolutionary Government ' ( PRG ), to gain government status at the talks.

As provisional governor, Abernethy worked to build roads, levied the first property taxes, and sent representatives of the Provisional Government to Washington, D. C. to lobby for official U. S. territorial status.

There, remnants of the KMP Central Committee, once again led by Kun, reformed into a Provisional Central Committee, which attempted to keep the Party together despite its illegal status in Hungary.

The Chairman of the Assembly of Kosovo ( or, Serbian:, transliterated ) is a post within the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government established by the United Nations administration in Kosovo to provide ' provisional, democratic self-government ' in advance of a decision on the final status of Kosovo.

The Assembly was an institution within the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government ( PISG ) established by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo ( UNMIK ) to provide ' provisional, democratic self-government ' in advance of a decision on the final status of Kosovo.

The February Revolution of 1917 saw the Provisional Government issue a manifesto, on March 30th, recognising Poland ’ s right to an autonomous status, while the Petrograd Soviet recognised Poland ’ s right to self determination.

The FDA downgraded the facility status from Approved to Provisional.

* Activated as: 72d Strategic Wing ( Provisional ) on 1 June 1972 and placed in provisional status.

In a modification of the earlier act, the Ministry of War by a decree of 5 August 1931 declared the four Orders subject to the Spanish law on Associations, to which status it had also converted the five Maestranzas and named a “ Junta, or Provisional Commission ”, to which it gave juridical personality in place of the Consejo.

Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".

Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.

The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

* 1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.

* Most of the southern half of the boundary with Somalia is a Provisional Administrative Line, not an international boundary, which is ignored by rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region

* 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

Provisional figures from the 2012 Ghana census indicates that Ghana's population is now 24, 658, 823.

* 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.

He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in August / September 1917 that purported to strengthen Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, but which led to Kerensky eventually having Kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d ' état.

* 1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

* 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) () is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army is also referred to as PIRA, the Provos, or by its supporters as the Army or the ' RA ; its constitution establishes it as Óglaigh na hÉireann (" The Irish Volunteers ") in the Irish language.

This is known as his " Provisional Morals ".

After the Bajorans have liberated themselves from the long and brutal Cardassian Occupation, the United Federation of Planets is invited by the Bajoran Provisional Government to administer joint control of the station, which ( originally ) orbits Bajor.

Most of the southern half of the boundary is a Provisional Administrative Line.

* July 30 – The Parliament of Finland is dissolved by the Russian Provisional Government.

* September 14 – Russia is declared a republic by the Provisional Government.

* December 29 – Sun Yat-sen is elected the Provisional President of the Republic of China.

* November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving an interview to RTÉ.

* February 4 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, the Provisional Confederate Congress is formed by representatives from the first six break-away states.

* February 9 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Weed Convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

** The London Hilton hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.

* November 27 – Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.