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| 1975 |
| | | School friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found a software firm, calling it Microsoft | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple | |
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| 1978 |
| | | There are so many strikes in Britain this winter that it becomes known as the 'winter of discontent' | |
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| 1980 |
| | | The small firm of Microsoft wins the contract to provide the operating system of the IBM personal computer | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan share a common economic viewpoint, following the policy known as monetarism | |
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| 1983 |
| | | British economist Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism in The Economic Consequences of Mrs Thatcher | |
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| 1983 |
| | | The first all-digital synthesizer, the DX7, is put on the market by Yamaha | |
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| 1987 |
| | | The Dow-Jones index loses 30% in a dramatic US stock-market collapse | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A treaty signed in the Netherlands town of Maastricht establishes the European Union and prepares for the introduction of the euro | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The UN imposes sanctions because of Libya's refusal to cooperate in the Lockerbie air disaster enquiry | |
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