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Churchill enters the House of Commons with the Conservatives
1900
Churchill crosses the floor of the House to join the Liberals
1904
Churchill is appointed the First Lord of the Admiralty
1911 25th October
World War One starts
1914 28th July
The Gallipoli campaign promoted by Churchill is underway
1915 April
The Gallipoli campaign ends as a complete failure
1916 January
World War One ends as the armistice is signed
1918 11th November
Churchill appointed Minister for War under Lloyd George
1919 January
Churchill appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Baldwin
1924 November
Labour is the largest party after general election, Churchill goes into opposition
1929 May
First of three Round Table Conferences in India. Churchill opposes concessions
1930 November
National Government formed under Ramsay MacDonald. Churchill was not included
1931 August
Hitler comes to power
1933 January
Germany reintroduces conscription
1935 March
Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1935 June
Anglo-German naval agreement
1935 June
Germany remilitarises Rhineland
1936 March
The abdication crisis with Edward VIII and George VI
1936 March
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1937 May
Germany annexes Austria
1938 March
Czech Crisis
1938 September
Munich Conference/Agreement
1938 30th September
Germany invades Czechoslovakia
1939 March
Germany declares war on Poland
1939 1st September
Britain declares war on Germany.
1939 3rd September
Churchill re-enters cabinet as first lord of the Admiralty
1939 September
Norway Narvik campaign
1940 April
German forces invade the Low Countries
1940 May
Churchill is appointed as Prime Minister
1940 10th May
The Dunkirk evacuations bring over 300,000 Allied troops to Britain
1940 26th May-4th June
France surrenders to Germany
1940 22nd June
The Battle of Britain begins
1940 July
Britain wins the Battle of Britain
1940 September
The 'Destroyers for Bases' Agreement between Britain and the US
1940 September
Operation Barbarossa. Hitler declares war on the USSR
1941 22nd June
The Atlantic Charter is signed by Britain and the USA
1941 14th August
The attack on Pearl Harbour
1941 7th December
The Senate votes unanimously to declare war on Japan
1941 8th December
Hitler declares war on the USA
1941 11th December
Singapore falls to Japan
1942 February
The Battle of El Alamein is fought and won by General Montgomery
1942 23rd October- 4th November
Operation Torch. The US lands in North Africa
1942 November
The Beveridge Report
1942 November
The Germans are defeated at Stalingrad
1943 2nd February
Allies invade Sicily
1943 9th July
Operation OVERLORD. The D-Day landings in Normandy
1944 6th June
The Yalta Conference
1945 February
VE Day
1945 8th May
Churchill loses the election to Clement Attlee of Labour
1945 July
The NHS is created
1948
October: Winston Churchill wins the General Election and returns as Prime Minister
1951
The denationalisation of steel
1953
Churchill retires as Prime Minister and is replaced by Anthony Eden
1955 April
Conservative election victory - 60 seat majority
1955 May
The Suez Crisis
1956 October
Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
1957 January
The Rent Act. It removed controls on renting property in an effort to create a free market
1957 July
Harold Macmillan’s ‘Never had it so good’ speech
1957 July
Race riots in Notting Hill, Nottingham, Bristol and other parts of London
1958-59
Conservative election victory - `100 seat majority
1959 October
Macmillan’s ‘Wind of Change’ speech
1960 February
Macmillan’s major cabinet reshuffle known as the ‘Night of the Long Knives’
1962 July
Cabinet minister John Profumo lies in the Commons over an affair and is forced to resign in June
1963 March
MacMillan retires as prime minister
1963 October
Alec Douglas-Home replaces Macmillan
1963 October
Labour government under Harold Wilson takes office - 4 seat majority
1964 October
the National Plan published
1965 September
The general election gives Labour a 96-seat majority
1966 March
Government devalues the pound
1967 November
President de Gaulle again vetoes British membership of the EEC
1967 November
‘In Place of Strife’ abandoned in return for TUC pledge to monitor strikes
1969 June
Equal pay enacted
1970 May
Conservatives win the general election
1970 June
The Industrial Relations Act becomes law
1971 August
House of Commons votes in favour of British entry to the EEC
1971 October
Miners’ strike begins (ends February)
1972 January
Britain joins the EEC
1973 January
Conservatives lose the general election, Labour takes office without a majority
1974 February
Labour wins a small majority in the general election - 3 seat maj
1974 October
Referendum on Britain’s membership of the EEC
1975 June
Wilson resigns as Prime Minister and is replaced by Callaghan
1976 March
Britain accepts a loan from the IMF
1976 December
Lib-Lab Pact: the Liberals agree to support the Labour government in parliament
1977 March
The ‘winter of discontent’
1979 January
Conservatives win a 43-seat majority in the general election
1979 May
April-June: Falklands war
1982
Inner city riots: Brixton, London (April) and Toxteth, Liverpool (July)
1981
Conservatives win 144-seat majority
1983 June
Miner's strike begins
1984 March
Miner's strike ends
1985 March
Resignation of Michael Heseltine in Westland affair
1986 January
The 'Big Bang' in the City of London
1986 October
Conservatives win 102-seat majority
1987 June
Violence at anti poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square
1990 March
Britain joins the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
1990 October
Thatcher resigns, replaced by John Major
1990 November
Poll tax replaced by Council Tax
1991 April
Maastricht treaty signed
1992 February
Conservatives win 21-seat majority
1992 April
