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Events relating to england
Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge
Aung San Suu Kyi's husband, Michael Aris, dies in England
Libya hands over, for trial in the Hague, two men suspected of causing the Lockerbie disaster of 1988
Britain's hereditary peers lose their rights in the House of Lords, apart from a few elected to serve for an interim period
Chromosome 22 becomes the first human genome to be fully sequenced, at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England
The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
Billy Elliott, directed by Stephen Daldry, tells of a child's journey from a mining community into a new life in ballet
Tony Blair leads Britain's Labour party in a second successive election victory, with a majority only marginally reduced from 179 to 167
InAusterlitz W.G. Sebald follows the painful quest of a Czech Jew, brought to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to discover the history of his immediate family
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, widow of the British king George VI, dies at the age of 102
Fifty years after her accession to the throne, the British queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Golden Jubilee
UK scientist David Kelly commits suicide, apparently for reasons linked with the Iraq War
The last three Concorde airliners to carry fare-paying passengers land within a space of five minutes at Heathrow
Lord Hutton publishes his report into the circumstances leading up to the suicide of Dr David Kelly
Armed robbers, suspected of links with the IRA, steal more than £25 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast
The Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles, subsequently to be known as the Duchess of Cornwall
Tony Blair wins the Labour party an unprecedented third successive term, but with a majority reduced from 167 to 66
Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour
A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist
Fliint tools from more than 800,000 years ago are discovered at Happisburgh in Norfolk, evidence of human habitation in Britain some 300,000 years earlier than previously thought
David Cameron wins the Tory leadership election, succeeding Michael Howard as the Leader of the Opposition in Britain
More than £53 million is stolen in a raid on the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent – the UK's largest robbery
The prime minister, Tony Blair, is questioned by police in Britain's 'cash for honours' enquiry
Tony Blair gives June 27 as the date for his promised resignation as British prime minister
