This timeline lists known examples of paramilitary and politically motivated violence during the Troubles, between 1974 and 1975. These chronologies are regularly updated as new information becomes available. We welcome information about errors or incidents not listed here. In these timelines the term “civilian” refers to an individual with no known or established political or paramilitary affiliations.

1974
January 5th: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in London, one at Madame Tussauds, the other in Earl’s Court. Due to telephone warnings there are no deaths or injuries.
January 17th: A 22-year-old off duty UDR soldier is shot dead by the Provisional IRA near his home in Trillick, County Tyrone.
January 19th: A UDR company commander is kidnapped while dining with his family in the Republic of Ireland. He is returned to Northern Ireland and murdered.
January 24th: Two Provisional IRA volunteers steal a helicopter and drop bombs in milk vats onto a RUC base in Strabane, County Tyrone. The bombs do not detonate.
February 4th: The Provisional IRA plants a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British soldiers and their families. The bomb explodes on the M62 motorway in Yorkshire, killing nine soldiers and three civilians.
March 15th: Two Provisional IRA volunteers, both in their 20s, are killed when a land mine they were carrying detonates near Dungannon.
April 10th: A UDR lieutenant colonel, George Saunderson, is ambushed by several IRA gunmen in County Fermanagh and shot dead.
April 11th: Provisional IRA volunteers attack a British patrol in County Fermanagh with land mines, killing a 25-year-old soldier.
April 21st: A Nationalist and former civil rights campaigner, Jim Murphy, is shot and killed at his home in County Fermanagh.
May 7th: A Catholic husband and wife are shot dead by UVF gunmen as they drove into their home in Donaghmore, County Tyrone.
May 13th: Two teenaged IRA volunteers are killed when a bomb they were planting at a petrol station near Dungannon explodes prematurely.
May 17th: Loyalists attempt to sabotage the Sunningdale Agreement by detonating four car bombs during rush hour in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. The blasts kill 33 and injure more than 260. The UVF claims responsibility for the bombings in 1993.
June 17th: An IRA bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring several people and causing damage to the building.
June 22nd: A 19-year-old British soldier fires on a civilian in Strabane, killing him. The soldier is later charged with murder and manslaughter but acquitted.
July: Red Hand Commandos bomb 14 different Catholic pubs in 14 days, killing one and injuring 100.
July 17th: The Provisional IRA bomb two locations in London, including the Tower of London. One person is killed and 41 people are injured.
July 20th: A Catholic civilian is found beaten to death in his garden in Strabane, County Tyrone. The identity and affiliation of his killers are not known.
July 24th: A Nationalist councilman from Trillick, Patrick Kelly, is abducted and murdered. His body is found in a lake in County Fermanagh. The identity of his killers is unknown.
October 5th: The Provisional IRA detonate bombs in Guildford, England, in two pubs frequented by British military personnel. Five people are killed, one of them a civilian, while 66 are wounded. The so-called Guildford Four were arrested, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for these bombings.
October 5th: A civilian is killed near Newry when an IRA explosive device detonated prematurely. It had been intended for a British Army patrol.
November 7th: The Provisional IRA hurls a six-pound gelignite bomb into the King’s Arms pub in Woolwich, London, killing two people including a British soldier.
November 7th: Two British soldiers patrolling an electricity station near Stewartstown, County Tyrone, are killed by a Provisional IRA booby trap.
November 15th: A 19-year-old British soldier is shot dead by a Provisional IRA sniper while on patrol in Strabane, County Tyrone.
November 21st: The Provisional IRA bomb two pubs in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and inuring more than 180. It was the deadliest IRA operation on English soil. Six men were later wrongly convicted for the Birmingham pub bombings.
December 2nd: A British soldier is killed near Derrylin, County Fermanagh, while inspecting a booby trapped milk churn.
December 21st: Two IRA bombs are located and defused in England, one of them in Harrod’s department store, London.

1975
February 10th: Two Catholic civilians, aged 65 and 18, are shot and killed during a Loyalist paramilitary attack on a bar in Rock, County Tyrone.
February 26th: PC Stephen Tibble, a London policeman, is shot and killed while pursuing a member of the Provisional IRA through the city.
April 5th: Eight people are killed in three separate incidents in Belfast. The IRA bombs the Mountainview Tavern on Shankill Road, killing five people. A Loyalist paramilitary group bombs a bar in New Lodge, Belfast, killing two Catholics civilians. Another Catholic civilian is shot and killed by Loyalists in Ardoyne.
April 6th: An 18-year-old INLA member is shot by Official IRA volunteers at Divis Flats. Elsewhere in Belfast a Protestant civilian is shot dead by Republicans.
April 12th: Red Hand Commandos attack a bar in Anderson Street, Belfast, with guns and small bombs. Six Catholics are killed. In a separate incident an Official IRA member is shot dead by INLA volunteers.
April 21st: A Loyalist paramilitary group booby traps a house in Dungannon, County Tyrone. The blast kills three Catholic civilians in their 20s, including a pregnant woman.
April 27th: Loyalist paramilitaries attack a social club in Bleary, County Down, and shoot dead three Catholic civilians.
April 28th: The feud between the INLA and Official IRA continues when Liam McMillan, a member of the Official IRA, is shot dead. In Belfast a Protestant civilian is shot and killed by UVF gunmen who were aiming at his Catholic workmate.
May 23rd: UVF gunmen shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Mount Vernon, Belfast.
June 3rd: Members of the South Armagh branch of the IRA shoot dead two Protestant civilians and an off-duty UDR member in Killeen.
June 5th: A 22-year-old INLA volunteer is shot and killed by members of the Official IRA.
June 12th: A bomb being transported by UVF members explodes prematurely in Belfast, killing both.
June 22nd: Five people, three Catholics and two Protestants, are killed in four separate incidents in Belfast, Greenisland and Sallins.
July 7th: An IRA booby trap kills a RUC officer at a school in Lurgan, County Armagh.
July 13th: Two people are shot dead in Belfast. One is a UDA volunteer killed by a rival Loyalist group, the other a 16-year-old Catholic shot by a British soldier.
July 17th: The South Armagh Republican Action Force, an IRA splinter group, detonates a bomb near Forkhill, killing four British soldiers.
August 28th: An IRA bomb explodes in Oxford Street, London, injuring seven people.
August 30th: A 10-year-old Catholic boy, Stephen Geddis, is seriously injured by a rubber bullet in Belfast. He dies two days later.
September 1st: In Armagh, gunmen from the self proclaimed South Armagh Republican Action Force attack an Orange Hall in Tullyvallan, in breach of a Provisional IRA ceasefire. Five Protestants are killed.
September 5th: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London, killing two people and injuring 63.
November 3rd: A car bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in Connaught Square, London, injuring several civilians.
November 22nd: A dozen men of the Provisional IRA’s South Armagh faction attack a British Army post in Drummuckavall, killing three soldiers.
November 27th: Ross McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a prominent campaigner against the IRA, is assassinated by IRA operatives outside his home.
December 12th: A week-long siege in Balcombe Street, London, ends with the capture and arrest of four Provisional IRA members. They are later convicted for the murder of Ross McWhirter and for orchestrating several bombings in England.
December 19th: Red Hand Commandos detonate a car bomb in the Republic of Ireland town Dundalk, killing two civilians.
December 19th: Red Hand Commandos attack a Catholic bar in Silverbridge, County Armagh, killing three civilians.
December 31st: An INLA bomb explodes in a bar in Gilford, County Down, killing three Protestant civilians.