* 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment ( United Kingdom ) | Parachute Regiment guard Argentina | Argentine prisoners of war during the Falklands War.

Chilean-Argentine relations remained bad, however, and Chile helped Britain during the Falklands War.

* 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War ( b. 1938 )

Following the Falklands War in 1982, Lord Shackleton published a report on the economy of the Falkland Islands which recommended many modernisations.

In 1982 the islands were invaded and occupied by the Argentine military junta, starting the Falklands War.

By the 1980s, the economic viability of the islands was in doubt, but after the Falklands War there was a new commitment from the United Kingdom government.

The group destroys munitions from the Falklands War that did not explode at the time and briefs troops, tourists and citizens on the areas which are safe and the minefield marking which have been put in place.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

* 1982 – The Argentine base ( Corbeta Uruguay ) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.

* 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships: RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.

Category: Royal Navy personnel of the Falklands War

After parting from Prince Andrew following his return from the Falklands War, she was married to Tim Jefferies between 1986 and 1990.

Its popularity became truly evident in 1982 during the Falklands War when sailors aboard the destroyer HMS Sheffield, severely damaged in an Argentinean Exocet missile attack on 4 May, started singing it while awaiting rescue.

Mine fields laid near the sea during the Falklands War have become favorite places for penguins, which do not weigh enough to detonate the mines.

* 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.

* 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

* 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.

These became famous during the Falklands War when an Argentine Exocet missile sank a Royal Navy destroyer.

In the Falklands War, less powerful British Harriers were able to defeat faster Argentinian opponents using AIM-9G missiles provided by the United States as the conflict began.

* 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

* 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.

Category: British people of the Falklands War

* 1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.

During the Falklands War against Great Britain, the Argentine military conceived the aborted Operation Algeciras, a covert plan to support and convince some Montoneros, by appealing to their patriotism, to sabotage British military facilities in Gibraltar.

It lost the 1983 general election " in which, following the Falklands war, foreign policy was high on the agenda.

These two maps of Portuguese origin suggest that it was Portuguese navigators who first saw and mapped the Falklands.

By 2002 the Falklands ' economy was booming, with income from tourism and the sale of squid fishing licences as well as from indigenous fishing companies with locally registered boats.

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

He was known as a left-winger, and gained prominence for his attacks on Margaret Thatcher's handling of the Falklands War in 1982.

The RMS St Helena was requisitioned in 1982 by the Ministry of Defence to help in support of the Falklands Conflict, and sailed south with the entire crew volunteering for duty.

At the same time, a shuttle service between St Helena and Ascension was planned, for the many Saint Helenians working there and on the Falklands.

Although the British discovered the presence of the Argentine base in 1978, protested and tried to resolve the issue by diplomatic means, no effort was made to remove them by force until after the Falklands War.

The same year when Britain and Spain became involved in the Falklands Crisis and came close to war, Pitt was a staunch advocate of taking a tough stance with Madrid and Paris ( as he had been during the earlier Corsican Crisis when France had invaded Corsica ) and made a number of speeches on the subject rousing public opinion.

Powell then said there was " the Hispanic factor ": " If we could gather together all the anxieties for the future which in Britain cluster around race relations ... and then attribute them, translated into Hispanic terms, to the Americans, we would have something of the phobias which haunt the United States and addressed itself to the aftermath of the Falklands campaign ".

Writing in The Guardian on 18 October, Powell asserted that due to the Falklands War, " Britain no longer looked upon itself and the world through American spectacles " and the view was " more rational ; and it was more congenial ; for, after all, it was our own view ".

This policy was controversial with the public and even some of her own Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( as well as former Conservative prime ministers Harold Macmillanand Edward Heath ), but her success in the Falklands war led to a recovery in her popularity which contributed to the Conservative victory in the 1983 general election.

* was a Type 21 frigate launched in 1972 and bombed and sunk in the Falklands War in 1982.

These carriers incorporated an upswept forward section of the flight deck that deflected the aircraft upward on launch and permitted heavier loads to be carried by the Harrier, for example in weaponry, and the system was used extensively in the Falklands war.

The Islands have been under British control since the Argentine administration was expelled in 1833, save for a brief Argentine occupation during the Falklands War in 1982.

Choiseul was the leading advocate of this scheme, and was prepared to go to war with Britain over the Falklands Crisis in 1770.

* Whitelaw was portrayed by John Standing in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play.