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Events relating to england
Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a love story set in Italian-occupied Cephalonia
Tony Blair wins the leadership of the Labour party, and sets about establishing what he calls New Labour
Mike Newell directs the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, starring Hugh Grant
Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands
British mathematician Andrew Wiles publishes, in Annals of Mathematics, his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
British choreographer Matthew Bourne has a great success with his all-male Swan Lake
British artist Tracey Emin causes a stir with Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995
An IRA bomb at Canary Wharf shatters the fifteen-month ceasefire achieved after the Downing Street Declaration
The Stone of Scone is returned from Westminster to Scotland, exactly seven centuries after its removal by Edward I
Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin is embellished with elephant dung
The British pop group Spice Girls sell millions of their first album, Spice, breaking all previous UK records
The divorce is finalized of Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales
A fatal variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease) is first identified in Britain, linked to BSE but capable of infecting humans
Dolly the Sheep is cloned in an epoch-making experiment at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh
Tony Blair leads the Labour party to its greatest ever electoral victory, winning 418 seats at Westminster
Aung San Suu Kyi's husband is diagnosed in England with cancer, but is refused an entry visa to Burma
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath
A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The British film The Full Monty follows six unemployed steel workers in their transformation into male strippers
Elton John sings a revised version of Candle in the Wind in Westminster Abbey, as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales
Coastal erosion reveals Seahenge, a 4,000-year-old circle of oak posts in Norfolk
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England
Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen dramatizes the visit of Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in wartime Denmark
John Madden directs Shakespeare in Love, a romantic comedy set in Elizabethan London
