22 March - Civil rights demonstrations take place all over Northern Ireland.
17 April - Bernadette Devlin, the 21-year-old student and civil rights campaigner, wins the Mid-Ulster by-election. She is the youngest female MP ever.
1 May - Major James Chichester-Clark succeeds Terence O'Neill as the North's Prime Minister.
12 July - Rioting in Belfast, Derry and Dungiven follows Orange Institution parades.[1]
1 August - A huge protest rally over events in Northern Ireland is held outside the GPO. The crowd demands that the Irish Army cross the border.
5 August - Belfast experiences the worst sectarian rioting since 1935.
12 August - Rioting follows an Apprentice Boys parade in Derry. By the evening, a full scale riot was in progress, later referred to as the Battle of the Bogside.[1]
14 August - James Chichester-Clark, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, calls for the mobilisation of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.[1]