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| 1983 |
| | | Government imposition of Islamic law (sharia) triggers renewed civil war in Sudan between the Muslim north and Christian south | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Polish union leader and activist Lech Walesa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1983 |
| | | President Reagan sends US marines to Grenada after the execution of the island's prime minister, Maurice Bishop | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Luc Montagnier, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discovers a new human retrovirus that he names LAV (later changed to HIV) | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earn a perfect score for their Bolero programme in the Sarajevo winter Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Milos Forman directs the screen version of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and union leader Arthur Scargill begin a bitter personal struggle in the miners' strike | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The name of Upper Volta is changed to Burkina Faso, meaning 'land of incorruptible people' | |
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