November 13 1983 – Gerry Adams is elected as President of Sinn Féin following the resignation of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh. He had previously served as vice-president from 1978.
March 14, 1984 – Mr Adams is shot and wounded in a loyalist paramilitary gun attack in central Belfast
November 1986 - Sinn Féin allows its members to take seats in the Dail
November 9, 1989 - The Berlin wall comes down
July 29, 1991 - Sinn Féin's youngest MLA Megan Fearon is born
April 9, 1992 – Gerry Adams loses his Westminster seat to the SDLP's Joe Hendron
May 10, 1994 - Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president
August 31, 1994 – IRA announces its first ceasefire
February 9, 1996 – IRA ceasefire ends with London’s Docklands bomb killing two and injuring over 100
May 1, 1997 – Mr Adams regains his West Belfast Westminster
July 1997 – The IRA announces its second ceasefire
May 22, 1998 – Good Friday Agreement approved by voters north and south
August 15, 1998 - Omagh bomb kills 29, including a woman pregnant with unborn twins
September 11, 2001 - Almost 3,000 killed when New York's Twin Towers collapse in a terrorist attack
October 14, 2002 - Northern Ireland Assembly suspended with a government unable to be formed again before the 2007 election
February 2004 - Facebook launched
May 2007 - Power-sharing returns to Northern Ireland after an historic meeting between DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.
June 20007 - First Apple iphone goes on sale
May 6, 2010 - Mr Adams elected in West Belfast for a fourth successive term as MP
November 2010 – Mr Adams announces he is to step down as MP and MLA to stand as a TD in the Republic.
March 2011 – Mr Adams is elected to the Dáil, topping the Louth constituency
January 2017 - Power-sharing collapses in Northern Ireland, ending more than a decade of joint-rule between unionist and nationalist politicians.
March 21, 2017 - Former Deputy First Minister and Sinn Féin leader in the North Martin McGuinness dies at the age of 66
September 5, 2017 - Gerry Adams says he will detail Sinn Féin’s "planned process of generational change" if he is re-elected as President at the party conference in November.