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- 1980 'Montego Bay' hits number one
- 1980 Soviet ambassador expelled
- 1980 Split Enz hit no. 1
- 1981 Trevor Chappell bowls underarm
- 1981 New Zealand Film Archive launched
- 1981 Allison Roe wins Boston Marathon
- 1981 All Whites beat Australia on road to Spain
- 1981 Anti-Springbok protesters block Hamilton match
- 1981 Kiri Te Kanawa sings at Royal Wedding
- 1981 Police baton anti-tour protesters outside Parliament
- 1981 'Flour-bomb test' ends Springbok tour
- 1982 'Queen of Crime' Ngaio Marsh dies
- 1982 First kōhanga reo opens
- 1982 Privy Council rules on Samoan citizenship
- 1983 Lance Cairns hits six sixes at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 1983 Waitangi Tribunal rules on Motunui claim
- 1983 Signing of CER agreement strengthens trans-Tasman trade ties
- 1983 Prince William meets 'buzzy bee'
- 1983 Lorraine Downes crowned Miss Universe
- 1983 Protest as USS Texas visits Auckland
- 1984 Floods devastate Southland
- 1984 Trades' Hall bombing
- 1984 Susan Devoy wins British Open squash tournament
- 1984 Muldoon calls snap election
- 1984 Ann Hercus becomes first Minister of Women's Affairs
- 1984 Te Maori exhibition opens in New York
- 1984 Queen Street concert ends in riot
- 1985 USS Buchanan refused entry to New Zealand
- 1985 Rainbow Warrior sunk by French secret agents
- 1985 Keri Hulme wins Booker Prize
- 1986 Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov
- 1986 Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed
- 1986 Goods and Services Tax Act introduced
- 1986 'Slice of Heaven' hits no. 1
- 1986 Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass in windy Wellington
- 1987 State-owned enterprises are born
- 1987 Attempted hijacking in Fiji foiled
- 1987 Death of Colin McCahon
- 1987 New Zealand goes nuclear-free
- 1987 All Blacks win the first World Cup
- 1987 A.J. Hackett bungy jumps from Eiffel Tower
- 1987 Lotto goes on sale for first time
- 1987 Te reo Māori recognised as official language
- 1987 New Zealander sentenced to death in Malaysia
- 1987 'Black Tuesday' share-market crash
- 1987 Death of Rewi Alley
- 1988 Cyclone Bola strikes
- 1988 Bastion Point land returned
- 1988 Cartwright Report condemns cancer treatment
- 1988 Air New Zealand women cabin crew win anti-discrimination case
- 1989 RainbowYOUTH formed