✦ History

Explore January 1, 1983 – January 1, 1985

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Jean-Claude Duvalier age 31
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 75
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 48
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 47
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 40
President - Chad
Isaac Navon age 61
President - Israel
Reynaldo Bignone age 54
President - Argentina
Quett Masire age 57
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 62
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 46
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 67
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 66
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 53
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 59
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 46
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 70
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 58
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 57
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 73
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 46
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 64
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 52
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 47
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 47
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 45
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 52
President - Bangladesh
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 56
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 59
President - Ireland
Belisario Betancur age 59
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 40
President - Lebanon
Devan Nair age 59
President - Singapore
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 76
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 49
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 36
President - Burundi
León Febres-Cordero age 51
President - Ecuador
Carmen Pereira age 46
President - Guinea-Bissau
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 54
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 41
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 46
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 77
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 63
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 58
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 50
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 44
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 57
President - Uruguay
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 68
President - Bolivia
José Napoleón Duarte age 57
President - El Salvador
Forbes Burnham age 59
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 60
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 57
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 67
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 49
President - Palau
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 40
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 51
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 45
President - Sierra Leone
Osvaldo Hurtado age 43
President - Ecuador
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 59
President - Guinea
Luis Alberto Monge age 57
President - Costa Rica
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 55
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 43
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 56
President - Suriname
Kurt Furgler age 58
President - Switzerland
Leon Schlumpf age 57
President - Switzerland
Álvaro Magaña age 57
President - El Salvador
Ieremia Tabai age 33
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 64
President - Myanmar
Pierre Aubert age 55
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 65
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 67
President - Bangladesh
Ati George Sokomanu age 47
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 69
President - Vatican City
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 47
President - Vanuatu
Viktor Avbelj age 68
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 78
President - Dominica
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 63
President - Mongolia
Gloriana Ranocchini age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giorgio Crescentini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Amici age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Branislav Šoškić age 60
President - Montenegro
Joseph James Tombura age 53
President - South Sudan
Renzo Renzi age 27
Captain Regent - San Marino
France Popit age 61
President - Slovenia
Marino Bollini age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Libero Barulli age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Germano De Biagi age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Roberto Rossini age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 57
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 58
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 59
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah age 36
Prime Minister - Brunei
Olof Palme age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Pierre Trudeau age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Turgut Özal age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Felipe González age 40
Prime Minister - Spain
Mário Soares age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Brian Mulroney age 43
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 62
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 71
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 43
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Malcolm Fraser age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Jacques Santer age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
John Turner age 53
Prime Minister - Canada
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 47
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 52
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Wilfried Martens age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Somare age 46
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 63
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kåre Willoch age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Dom Mintoff age 66
Prime Minister - Malta
Kalevi Sorsa age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Pierre Werner age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
David Lange age 40
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Maurice Bishop age 38
Prime Minister - Grenada
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 54
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 52
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 45
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 62
Prime Minister - Fiji
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 52
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Cleopa Msuya age 52
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 70
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Desmond Hoyte age 53
Prime Minister - Guyana
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 72
Prime Minister - Iceland
Rashid Karami age 61
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 42
Prime Minister - Nepal
Lynden Pindling age 52
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 57
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Bülent Ulusu age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Manuel Esquivel age 42
Prime Minister - Belize
Adil Çarçani age 60
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 53
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Òscar Ribas Reig age 46
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 72
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 49
Prime Minister - Malta
Habib Thiam age 49
Prime Minister - Senegal
Salim Ahmed Salim age 40
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Walter Lini age 41
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Hudson Austin age 44
Prime Minister - Grenada
Mudar Badran age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 63
Prime Minister - Morocco
Maati Bouabid age 55
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 46
Prime Minister - Algeria
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 55
Prime Minister - Algeria
Ahmad Obeidat age 44
Prime Minister - Jordan
Peter Kenilorea age 39
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 44
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 57
Prime Minister - Andorra
Tom Adams age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 48
Prime Minister - Gabon
Nicholas Brathwaite age 57
Prime Minister - Grenada
Victor Saúde Maria age 43
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Milton Cato age 67
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 42
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Moustapha Niasse age 43
Prime Minister - Senegal
Cesar Virata age 52
Prime Minister - Philippines
Chan Sy age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Herbert Blaize age 64
Prime Minister - Grenada
Diarra Traoré age 48
Prime Minister - Guinea
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 44
Prime Minister - Libya
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 49
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Solomon Mamaloni age 39
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Edward Sokoine age 44
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mabandla Dlamini age 52
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 61
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bello Bouba Maigari age 36
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Shafik Wazzan age 57
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Hamid Algabid age 42
Prime Minister - Niger
Peter Colotka age 58
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Luc Ayang age 36
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mamane Oumarou age 38
Prime Minister - Niger
Ali Mroudjaé age 43
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ange Édouard Poungui age 41
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Nalumino Mundia age 55
Prime Minister - Zambia
Sandro Mariátegui age 61
Prime Minister - Peru
Errol Alibux age 34
Prime Minister - Suriname
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 66
Prime Minister - Peru
Radivoje Brajović age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Wim Udenhout age 45
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Pércovich Roca age 51
Prime Minister - Peru
Hans Brunhart age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Elmira Minita Gordon age 52
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 59
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 71
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 73
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 65
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Tore Lokoloko age 52
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea