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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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