1910    The hull of the {{RMS|Olympic}}, sister-ship to the ill-fated {{RMS|Titanic}}, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1914    {{Ship|HMHS|Britannic}}, sister to the {{RMS|Titanic}}, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

1921    Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1941    In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.

1970    The Troubles: the "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1971    McGurk's Bar bombing: An Ulster Volunteer Force bomb kills 15 civilians and wounds 17 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1972    Bloody Friday bombings by the Provisional IRA around Belfast, orthern Ireland

1972    Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.

1984    Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

1992    A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.