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| 1981 |
| | | Muslim terrorists assassinate Anwar el-Sadat, in response to his peace agreement with Israel | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Sadat is peacefully succeeded in Egypt by his vice-president, Hosni Mubarak | |
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| 1981 |
| | | British snooker player Steve Davis wins the first of six world championship titles | |
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| 1981 |
| | | 16-year-old ballerina Sylvie Guillem joins the Paris Opera Ballet | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski imposes martial law and suspends Solidarnośc (Solidarity) | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Leopoldo Galtieri becomes leader of the military junta ruling Argentina | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, based on the Old Possum poems by T.S. Eliot, opens in London | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The Saudi fundamentalist Osama bin Laden joins the mujaheddin in their fight against the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Steven Spielberg directs E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which an alien is stranded on earth and is befriended by a young boy | |
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| 1982 |
| | | 5000 Argentinian troops land in the Falkland Islands, provoking war with Britain | |
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