1982 TIMELINE

 

Key events are listed below, please click on each month for a more detailed list

 

APRIL MAY JUNE
2nd
 Argentina invades the Falklands
3rd
 South Georgia invaded
5th
 First Task Force ships leave Portsmouth
7th
 200 mile 'exclusion zone' declared around the Islands
9th
 Canberra sails from Southampton
25th
 South Georgia retaken
1st
 Stanley airfield bombed
2nd
 General Belgrano torpedoed
4th
 HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet missile
15th
 Pebble Island raided
21st
 San Carlos landings; HM Ships Ardent and Argonaut bombed
25th
 HMS Coventry bombed, and Atlantic Conveyor hit by Exocet missile
28th
 Goose Green attacked
29th
 Argentines surrender at Goose Green
30th
 Mount Kent taken
3rd
 Bluff Cove/Fitzroy occupied
5th
 Mount Challenger taken
8th
 DiSASter at Fitzroy - RFAs Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram bombed
11/
12th
 Mount Longdon, Two Sisters and Mount Harriet taken
12th
 HMS Glamorgan hit by shore-launched Exocet missile
13/
14th
 Mount William, Wireless Ridge and Tumbledown taken
14th
 Argentine invasion forces surrender - Stanley liberated
20th
 South Thule retaken

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