- Official launch of the Euro – UK opts out
- Columbine High School massacre
- Activists stage anti-globalisation protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle
- McPherson Report into death of Stephen Lawrence labels London police ‘institutionally racist’
- Y2K bug or ‘Millennium Bug’ threatens computer meltdown
- Opening of the Millennium Dome
- First Liverpool Biennial of contemporary
- Mamma Mia! Opens in London’s West End