Midnight, August 31st, 1994: The IRA leadership declares a "complete cessation of military operations" to "enhance the democratic peace process".
September 4th, 1994: The UVF explodes a car bomb outside the Sinn Fein press offices in Belfast.
September 12th: A 1.5 kg bomb planted on the Belfast to Dublin train by the UVF fails to explode after its detonator goes off. Three passengers are slightly injured.
October 23rd: Gardai find several handguns in Dundalk Co Louth. They are linked to a new group, the paramilitary wing of Republican Sinn Fein calling itself the Irish National Republican Army (INRA).
November 10th: Postal worker, Frank Kerr, is murdered during a raid on the postal sorting centre in Newry, Co Down. The IRA neither denies nor admits involvement.
December 18th: A 2 lb Semtex bomb is defused by the British army outside a furniture store in Enniskillen. Security sources blame the INRA.
December 20th: Gardai find a major arms cache in a bog outside Longford town.
February 7th, 1995: A 10 day Army and Garda search of farmland in Co Meath uncovers a large IRA weapons store near where another weapons dump was found more than a year before.
February 8th: A 1 lb Semtex bomb is planted outside a store in Newry, Co Down. A warning is issued and the bomb is defused.
March 16th: A second Semtex bomb is found and made safe outside the same store in Newry after a telephone warning. The Taoiseach, Mr Bruton, says he does not believe the device was planted by the IRA.
March 23rd: Gardai find around 20 lb of Semtex explosive at farmland in Co Cavan.
March 26th: Three masked men, claiming to be from the IRA, burst into a house in Coagh, Co Tyrone beat the owner and force his wife to hand over two legally held shotguns.
April 4th: Gardai arrest four men, one said to be the chief of staff of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in north Dublin as they travel north. They recover 20 semiautomatic pistols, four rifles, two submachine guns and 2.500 rounds of ammunition.
April 14th: The RUC finds a major loyalist arms cache and possible weapons factory in Holywood, Co Down.
August 12th: Gardai find Semtex explosive and detonators near Midleton, Co Cork. November 10th: More than 1,000 lb of homemade explosive are found in a van near Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. Gardai link the find to the INRA.
December 5th: The head of the International Body on Decommissioning, former US senator, Mr George Mitchell, invites submissions on arms decommissioning from all parties.
December 27th: Sinn Fein warns of a "resumption of hostilities in Ireland and Britain" unless the British government stops trying to force the "surrender" of the IRA.
January 14th, 1996: Sinn Fein dismisses the idea of a new elected Northern assembly as a "non runner".
January 26th: The Mitchell report is published laying down six principles for entry into all party talks.
February 8th: The IRA ceasefire ends. A massive blast at South Quay in London's Docklands kills two men.
February 15th: A 5 lb Semtex bomb is found in a holdall in a telephone box in Charing Cross Road, central London.
February 19th: IRA bomber, Edward O'Brien is killed by his own bomb in London in the Aldwych bus blast. A "small improvised device" explodes in Fulham.
February 19th: A Belfast court is told that an armed robbery in west Belfast a week earlier was an IRA fund raising operation.
February 21st: Belfast city centre is evacuated in the first bomb scare in the North since the end of the IRA ceasefire.
April 17th: An explosion rocks an empty house at The Boltons, an exclusive area of Earl's Court, London causing damage but no injuries.
April 24th: Two devices are placed at the south side of Hammersmith Bridge in west London. The detonators explode, but the bombs themselves, together containing upwards of 30 lb of Semtex, do not explode.
April 28th: A Stormont minister, Mr Michael Ancram, says the IRA must restore its ceasefire and Sinn Fe in must sign up to the six Mitchell principles before being allowed into all party negotiations.
April 29th: Mr Dick Spring proposes that decommissioning be made a "fourth strand" Fin all party talks.
April 30th: Unionist politicians accuse the Government of trying to "appease the IRA".
May 6th: Army experts blow up a suspect car at Dublin Airport after the UVF warns that it has planted two bombs.
May 30th: In elections to all party talks, Sinn Fein polls a record vote.
June 5th: The IRA says in a statement that a ceasefire is "remote in the extreme".
June 7th: Det Garda Jerry McCabe is shot dead during a post office raid in Adare, Co Limerick. The raiders flee without the money. Gardai say it had all the hallmarks of an IRA raid.
June 15th: A 1.5 tonne bomb rips through Manchester city centre injuring around 200 people and causing millions of pounds worth of damage.
June 18th: O'Connell Street in Dublin and surrounding areas are cleared after a hoax call which claimed the UFF had planted a bomb in O Connell Street.
June 19th: In a statement admitting responsibility for the Manchester bomb the IRA says it is "still prepared to enhance the democratic peace, process".
June 20th: Six men are arrested after gardai uncover a major IRA bomb making factory in Clonslee, Co Laois. The discovery follows a tip off during the hunt for Det Garda Jerry McCabe's killers.
June 27th: Gardai recover 190 lb of homemade explosives at Clones, Co Monaghan.
June 28th: The IRA fires a volley of three mortars at British army barracks in Osnabruck, Germany. There are no injuries but several buildings are badly damaged.
July 11th: Following the RUC action in Drumcree three officers are shot and injured in north Belfast. There is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast, Armagh, Lurgan and other towns.
July 7th: Catholic taxi driver, Michael McGoldrick, is shot dead near Lurgan, Co Armagh. A maverick UVF commander is blamed for his murder.
July 13th: After a 10 minute phone warning 40 people are injured when a car bomb explodes outside the Killyhevlin Hotel, Co Fermanagh. Security sources blame the INRA.
August 7th: Gardai find a rocket launcher and assorted high calibre ammunition in the Fane river near Dundalk.
August 28th: The Combined Loyalist Military Command tells Armagh loyalist Billy Wright that he will be killed if he does not leave Northern Ireland in 72 hours.
September 1st: A small bomb is thrown into the house of the parents of Alec Kerr, an associate of Billy Wright. They are treated for shock, but uninjured.
September 2nd: Former INLA chief, Hugh Torney, is shot dead as he walks along a street in Lurgan. A man injured in the attack later appears on an arms charge.
September 15th: Security sources confirm the IRA is planning an Army Convention to discuss a new ceasefire.