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Timeline of Events

1910

10.20.1910

The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1914

2.26.1914

Ship HMHS, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

1921

7.10.1921

Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1941

4.15.1941

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.

1970

7.3.1970

The Troubles: the "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1971

12.4.1971

McGurk's Bar bombing: An Ulster Volunteer Force bomb kills 15 civilians and wounds 17 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1972

7.21.1972

Bloody Friday (1972)|Bloody Friday bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA around Belfast, Northern Ireland

7.31.1972

Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.

1984

3.14.1984

Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

1992

9.23.1992

A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.