2,054 notable events in the United Kingdom — murders, shipwrecks and rail accidents. Page 3 of 21.
- Ronan Point
May 16, 1968 · Bombing & explosion
- Manacled Mormon case
date unknown · Attack (other)
- Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident
Apr 5, 1968 · Aviation accident
- Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509
Dec 22, 1999 · Aviation accident
- Baker Street robbery
Sep 11, 1971 · Crime & justice
- Raid on the Medway
Jun 9, 1667–Jun 14, 1667 · War & armed conflict
- Penlee lifeboat disaster
Dec 19, 1981 · Maritime disaster
- Quintinshill rail disaster
May 22, 1915 · Rail accident
- Murder of David Amess
Oct 15, 2021 · Attack (other)
- 2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing
Nov 1, 2025 · Attack (other)
- Murder of Joanna Yeates
Dec 17, 2010 · Murder & homicide
- Killing of Mark Duggan
Aug 4, 2011 · Murder & homicide
- Satanic Verses controversy
1988 · Scandal & controversy
- Birmingham Six
date unknown · Terrorism
- Kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle
Jan 1975 · Murder & homicide
- 1979 Fastnet Race
1979 · Maritime disaster
- SMS Von der Tann
date unknown · Maritime disaster
- Killing of Damilola Taylor
Nov 27, 2000 · Murder & homicide
- Tay Bridge disaster
Dec 28, 1879 · Rail accident
- Murder of Una Crown
Jan 13, 2013 · Murder & homicide
- Second Barons' War
1264–1267 · War & armed conflict
- Murder of Shafilea Ahmed
Sep 11, 2003 · Murder & homicide
- 1973 Old Bailey bombing
Mar 8, 1973 · Bombing & explosion
- Ballymurphy massacre
Aug 9, 1971–Aug 11, 1971 · Murder & homicide
- Murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman
Jun 6, 2020 · Murder & homicide
- 2009 Upton Park riot
Aug 25, 2009 · Riot & unrest
- Murder of April Jones
Oct 1, 2012 · Murder & homicide
- 1985 Manchester Airport disaster
Aug 22, 1985 · Aviation accident
- Murder of Danielle Jones
Jun 18, 2001 · Murder & homicide
- London Beer Flood
Oct 17, 1814 · Natural disaster
- Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence
Mar 18, 2009 · Disappearance
- Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary
date unknown · Crime & justice
- 2018 Amesbury poisonings
Jun 30, 2018 · Epidemic & disease
- Burning of Edinburgh
May 7, 1544 · Fire
- Chohan family murders
Feb 15, 2003 · Murder & homicide
- Monmouth Rebellion
Jun 1685–Jul 1685 · War & armed conflict
- Murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
Jun 17, 2020 · Murder & homicide
- July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
from Jul 5, 2022 · Crisis
- 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak
2001 · Epidemic & disease
- 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
from Aug 31, 1854 · Epidemic & disease
- Thorpe affair
date unknown · Scandal & controversy
- 1971 Ibrox disaster
Jan 2, 1971 · Stampede & crowd crush
- Corby toxic waste case
date unknown · Crime & justice
- Murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel
Aug 22, 2022 · Murder & homicide
- Battle of Marston Moor
Jul 2, 1644 · War & armed conflict
- Partygate
date unknown · Scandal & controversy
- Moorgate tube crash
Feb 28, 1975 · Rail accident
- Cleveland Street scandal
from 1889 · Scandal & controversy
- Wimbledon school crash
Jul 6, 2023 · Road accident
- Kincora Boys' Home
date unknown · Crime & justice
- Archie Battersbee case
2022 · Crime & justice
- George Baldock
date unknown · Maritime disaster
- Buncefield fire
Dec 11, 2005 · Fire
- Murder of Mark Tildesley
Jun 1, 1984 · Murder & homicide
- Death and funeral of Mary of Teck
Mar 31, 1953 · Death & funeral
- Murder of Daniel Handley
Oct 2, 1994 · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Yvonne Fletcher
Apr 17, 1984 · Murder & homicide
- Bedchamber crisis
May 7, 1839 · Scandal & controversy
- Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
Sep 18, 2012 · Murder & homicide
- United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
date unknown · Crisis
- Bloody Friday (1972)
Jul 21, 1972 · Bombing & explosion
- Wyatt's rebellion
Jan 1, 1554 · War & armed conflict
- Murder of Jodi Jones
Jun 30, 2003 · Murder & homicide
- Battle of the Bogside
Aug 12, 1969–Aug 14, 1969 · War & armed conflict
- Murder of Fanny Adams
Aug 24, 1867 · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Libby Squire
Feb 1, 2019 · Murder & homicide
- Jacobite rising of 1715
Jan 1, 1715 · War & armed conflict
- Death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Mar 30, 2002 · Death & funeral
- 2025 Manchester synagogue attack
Oct 2, 2025 · Terrorism
- Spithead and Nore mutinies
1797 · War & armed conflict
- 1981 Brixton riot
Apr 10, 1981–Apr 12, 1981 · Riot & unrest
- Death of Corrie McKeague
Sep 24, 2016 · Disappearance
- Guildford pub bombings
Oct 5, 1974 · Bombing & explosion
- Preussen (ship)
date unknown · Maritime disaster
- Colin Ireland
date unknown · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins
Feb 15, 1997 · Murder & homicide
- Killing of Joanna Simpson
Oct 31, 2010 · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Alesha MacPhail
Jul 2, 2018 · Murder & homicide
- Hunt family murders
Jul 9, 2024 · Murder & homicide
- Death and state funeral of George V
Jan 20, 1936 · Death & funeral
- Bradford murders
Jun 22, 2009–May 21, 2010 · Murder & homicide
- Death of Harry Dunn
Aug 27, 2019 · Scandal & controversy
- Ladbroke Grove rail crash
Oct 5, 1999 · Rail accident
- 21 July 2005 London attempted bombings
Jul 21, 2005 · Terrorism
- Morecambe Bay cockling disaster
Feb 5, 2004 · Murder & homicide
- Dunbeath air crash
Aug 25, 1942 · Aviation accident
- 1993 Bishopsgate bombing
Apr 24, 1993 · Bombing & explosion
- BOAC Flight 712
Apr 8, 1968 · Aviation accident
- RAF Fauld explosion
Nov 27, 1944 · Bombing & explosion
- 2026 Hatzola arson attack
Mar 23, 2026 · Attack (other)
- 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
Aug 9, 2006 · Terrorism
- 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash
Aug 22, 2015 · Aviation accident
- Siege of Sidney Street
Jan 3, 1911 · War & armed conflict
- Alfie Evans case
date unknown · Crime & justice
- Bugaled Breizh
date unknown · Maritime disaster
- Killamarsh murders
Sep 18, 2021 · Murder & homicide
- German submarine U-534
date unknown · Maritime disaster
- Birmingham pub bombings
Nov 21, 1974 · Terrorism
- Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Jun 1, 2018–Nov 2, 2020 · Crime & justice
- Flixborough disaster
Jun 1, 1974 · Bombing & explosion