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* 5 April - Falklands War: Royal Navy
task force sets sail to the Falklands
from Portsmouth.
* 7 April - Britain declares a
200-mile "exclusion zone" around the
Falklands.
* 17 April - By Proclamation of the
Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill,
Canada repatriates its constitution,
granting full political independence
from the United Kingdom; included is
the country's first entrenched bill of
rights.
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