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Timeline
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| 1980 |
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April Police raid on the Black and White Café triggers
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| 1981 |
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January 13 young black people die in a fire at a party
at New Cross Road, south London.
1 February Bristol riot trial begins.
20 March Bristol riot trial ends.
28 March Enoch Powell warns of racial 'civil war' in Britain.
March/April The Metropolitan Police launches Operation
Swamp 81 in Brixton.
2 April A street party is held in the St Paul's district
of Bristol one year after the riots
10 April Police in Brixton who claim to be treating a
black stabbing victim are surrounded by about 50 black
youths, who 'rescue' the victim.
11 April The arrest of a black youth in Brixton triggers
violent clashes with police.
12 April Home secretary William Whitelaw tours Brixton
with the Metropolitan Police commissioner.
13 April Home secretary William Whitelaw announces the
appointment of Lord Scarman to conduct a public enquiry
into the disturbances in Brixton.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dismisses suggestions
that unemployment and racism lie beneath the Brixton disturbances.
Enoch Powell warns that Britain 'has seen nothing yet'.
14 April Scarman Inquiry set up
17 April On a trip to India Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
defends the government's Nationality Bill.
20 April More than 100 people are arrested and 15 police
injured in clashes with mainly black youths at fairs in
Finsbury Park, Forest Gate and Ealing, all in London.
15 May Scarman Inquiry opens
30 May The TUC People's March for Jobs arrives in London,
where 100,000-plus march to Trafalgar Square.
13-14 June More than 80 arrests are made during clashes
between skinhead racists and black people in Coventry.
15 June Lord Scarman's enquiry into the Brixton riots
begins hearing evidence
June-July A wave of far-right attacks on the premises
of black, multi-racial and left-wing organisations.
2 July In Walthamstow, four members of the Khan family,
including three children, are killed in an arson attack
on their home.
3 July The Hamborough Tavern in Southall is host to a
far-right skinhead concert by The Foreskins. The pub comes
under attack from Asian youths after an Asian woman is
assaulted; it is eventually firebombed and burnt out.
4-8 July Toxteth riots. CS gas is used for the first time
on the British mainland. Contrary to safety instructions,
the gas is fired directly at people, resulting in a number
of serious injuries.
7 July Around 250 youths, black and white, clash with
police in Wood Green, north London.
8 July More than 1,000 young people besiege the police
station at Moss Side, Manchester.
8-10 July Moss Side riots.
9 July 300 police are required to quell street disturbances
in Woolwich, south London.
10 July New riots in Brixton are accompanied by a wave
of disturbances in Britain: Southall, Battersea, Dalston,
Streatham and Walthamstow in London, Handsworth in Birmingham,
Chapeltown in Leeds, Highfields in Leicester, Ellesmere
Port, Luton, Leicester, Sheffield, Portsmouth, Preston,
Newcastle, Derby, Southampton, Nottingham, High Wycombe,
Bedford, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Stockport, Blackburn,
Huddersfield, Reading, Chester, and Aldershot.
Margaret Thatcher cancels a planned visit to Toxteth because
her safety cannot be guaranteed.
In London all demonstrations and marches are banned for
a month.
A funeral procession for Mrs Parveen Khan and her three
children, killed in an arson attack is called off due
to fears of disorder.
11-12 July Bradford riots.
13 July Margaret Thatcher pays an 8am visit to Toxteth.
15 July Early morning raids in search of alleged petrol
bombs (none are found) trigger new clashes in Brixton.
16 July Environment secretary Michael Heseltine is appointed
'minister for Liverpool'.
17 July House of Commons debate.
25 July 1,000 motorcyclists clash with police in the Lake
District town of Keswick.
6 August House of Commons report.
17 August Moss Side inquiry opens.
2 September 2nd phase of Scarman inquiry begins.
4 September Moss Side inquiry ends.
9 September 2nd phase of Scarman inquiry ends.
12 October Moss Side report published.
22 October Bradford 12 committal proceedings start.
25 November Scarman report published. |
Brixton
riots © bbc.co.uk
Telegraph
article on Scarman
Toxteth
riots © bbc.co.uk
BBC
article on Toxteth
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| 1982 |
January
Riots in St Paul's, Bristol.
April Riots in Notting Hill Gate, London.
April Riots in Toxteth.
24 April Bradford 12 jury plea.
4 May Bradford 12 trial starts.
16 June Bradford 12 acquittal.
July Riots in Toxteth. |
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| 1983 |
June
Riots in St Paul's, Bristol. |
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| 1985 |
10-11
September Riots break out in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.
28-30 September Riots break out on the streets of Brixton
after Cherry Groce is shot and seriously injured in a
house search by police.
1 October riots break out in Peckham and Toxteth.
5 October Cynthia Jarrett dies after four police officers
search her home near the Broadwater Farm housing estate
in Tottenham.
6 October PC Keith Blakelock is killed in a night of sustained
violence at the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north
London. |
Toxteth
riots © bbc.co.uk
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