Year	What Was Happening ?
« 1978	At St John's	In & Around Stratford	In The Church	In The World
1979	David Driscoll becomes vicar of St John's			Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Earl Mountbatten is assassinated by Irish terrorists.
1980				Former Beatle John Lennon is shot dead outside his New York apartment. Southern Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe, an independent nation.
1981				MS-DOS computer operating system introduced Ronald Reagan becomes President of The United States
1982				Falklands conflict
1983		Queen Mary's Hospital closes.		US invasion of Grenada £25 million in gold bars is robbed from the Brinks Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport.
1984			The 'Chelmsford Episcopal Area' scheme is officially inaugurated.	The Apple Macintosh goes on sale Britain agrees to give control of Hong Kong back to China in 1997.
1985				Windows computer system introduced
1986			The Rt. Rev. John Waine becomes the Bishop of Chelmsford.	Chernobyl nuclear disaster The Australia Bill, signed by the Queen, severs all constitutional ties with Britain.
1987				The worst hurricane on record to hit British soil strikes southern England causing much damage and killing 17. Great Britain and the European Ryder Cup Team defeat the US for the first time on American soil. 'Black Monday' on Wall Street, and its ripple effect, wipe out millions on markets around the world. Charlie Chaplin's bowler and cane are sold at Christies in London for £82,500. His boots go for £38,500.
1988		British Rail, still committed to a southern route for international trains through Kent and into Waterloo, announce a possible series of locations for a second Channel Tunnel terminal, north of the Thames. One of the options is Stratford. Although King's Cross is selected, this begins a campaign, in Stratford, to make the case for a Eurostar station and terminus on the Rail Lands.	The Cardinal of Turin, Italy, confirmed that scientific tests had dated the origin of the famous Shroud of Turin around 1260 to 1390.	Digital cellular phones invented Reggae poet Dennis Loban is sentenced to hang, found guilty of the murder of reggae star Peter Tosh.
1989			Pope John Paul II and President Gorbachev end a 70 year cold war between the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union.	Fall of the Berlin wall Nick Faldo becomes the first Englishman to win The Masters. George Herbert Walker Bush becomes President of The United States US Invasion of Panama US TV preacher, Jim Bakker, sentence to 45 years and fined $500,000 for swindling his followers out of millions.
1990 »	David Richards becomes vicar of St John's