* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

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.

With the Official IRA and Official Sinn Féin having moved away from mainstream Irish republicanism towards Marxism, the Provisional IRA began to win the support of newly radicalised, disaffected young people.

In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).

The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.

Thus, similar to the claim put forward by the Provisional IRA after its split from the Official IRA in 1969, the Continuity IRA claims to be the legitimate continuation of the ' Irish Republican Army ' or Óglaigh na hÉireann.

* 1989 – Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army nonpermanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland.

Eleven people were killed and hundreds injured as a result of a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb.

In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), who planted a bomb in his yacht, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

* 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England.

* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

Major opened talks with the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) upon taking office.

* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.

* 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

* 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

In 1973 the Irish Naval Service intercepted the vessel Claudia in Irish territorial waters, which carried Soviet arms from Libya to the Provisional IRA.

* The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) of Ireland, a left-wing Irish paramilitary group that fought a 29-year war for a United Ireland.

* ETA – Basque Fatherland and Liberty, a left-wing Basque separatist group fighting for the independence of the Basques from Spain with ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army also received training support from Libya in the 1960s and mid -' 70s.

* 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

* 1987 – The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.

* 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.

* 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

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

In 1984, he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, and his wife Margaret was left permanently disabled.

Walker received reinforcements, including the Provisional Marine Brigade, which he used along with the Army's 27th Infantry Regiment as " fire brigades ," reliable troops who specialized in counterattacking and wiping out enemy penetrations.

It also criticised the stance IS adopted on the Provisional Irish Republican Army's terrorist actions in 1972.

His outspoken support for the release of Danny McNamee, who was convicted in 1987 of involvement in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's Hyde Park bombing of 1982, led to accusations ( which were later retracted ) that Hardy was an IRA supporter.

A few months later, using the interval between the Red Army's retreat and the arrival of the Imperial German Army, the Salvation Committee of the Estonian National Council Maapäev issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in Tallinn on February 24, 1918 and formed the Estonian Provisional Government.

* 1993 – Shankill Road bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.

On 16 November 1982, Murphy had just pulled up outside the rear of his girlfriend's house in the Glencairn area of the upper Shankill when two Provisional IRA gunmen emerged from a black van nearby and opened fire with an assault rifle and a 9 mm pistol.

Well-known US units in this theater included the Flying Tigers, transport and bomber units flying the Hump, the 1st Air Commando Group, the engineers who built Ledo Road, and the 5307th Composite Unit ( Provisional ), otherwise known as Merrill's Marauders.

On the morning of 26 July, Margaret Murray was taken into custody by the Army on suspicion of fund-raising for the Provisional IRA in connection with her brothers ' activities and taken to the Springfield Road screening centre.

* 1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces.

Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until overthrown in the October Revolution.

* Constitutionalist Revolution ( 1932 ): Was the armed movement occurred in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, between July and October 1932, which aimed at the overthrow of the Provisional Government of Getúlio Vargas and the promulgation of a new constitution for Brazil.

The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and claimed to have established the world's first socialist state.

After the Finnish non-socialists won the October 1917 Parliamentary elections, they established an informal truce with the Russian Provisional Government, a situation which was completely disrupted by the Bolshevist revolution in October.

This was followed by the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks, who seized control in a quick coup d ' état against the Provisional Government, resulting in the formation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ), the first country in history committed to the establishment of communism.

* 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government ( As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date ).

* 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.

The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks.

Eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and created the world ’ s first socialist state.

In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik ( Communist ) government.

In the October Revolution ( November in the Gregorian calendar ), the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers ' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in St Petersburg.

Several months later, on November 7 ( October 25 old stile ) Red Guards seized the Winter Palace and arrested the Provisional Government in what will be known as the October Revolution.

* October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.

) – Great October Socialist Revolution: The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Kerensky Provisional Government, resulting in the first overthrow of capitalism in history.

* October 1 – Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member ( b. 1956 )

* 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.

* October 4 – The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

That autumn, the October Revolution in Russia removed Romania's main ally, the Russian Provisional Government, from the conflict.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the Provisional Government dissolved the Tsar's police and created People's Militsiya.

* The Provisional Government of Free India ( 1943 – 1945 ), set up in Singapore in October 1943 by Subhash Chandra Bose and alleged by the Allies to have been a puppet state, it was in charge of Indian expatriates and military personnel in Japanese Southeast Asia.

On 5 October 1974, bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army went off in two Guildford pubs, killing four off-duty soldiers and a civilian.

During the months of February and October 1917, the power of the Provisional Government was consistently questioned by nearly all political parties.