24 Feb	1950: Labour wins slim majority
26 Oct	1951: Churchill wins general election
05 Apr	1955: Sir Winston Churchill resigns
27 May	1955: Election victory for Tories under Eden
07 Dec	1955: Attlee steps down as Labour leader
09 Jan	1957: Sir Anthony Eden resigns
10 Jan	1957: Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
20 Jul	1957: Britons 'have never had it so good'
09 Oct	1959: 'Supermac' leads Tories to victory
15 Mar	1962: Liberals seize Orpington
18 Jan	1963: Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell dies
27 Jul	1965: Heath is new Tory leader
13 Mar	1970: Conservative victory in first teen election
19 Jun	1970: Shock election win for Heath
11 Oct	1974: Labour scrapes working majority
26 Apr	1975: Labour votes to leave the EEC
16 Mar	1976: Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns
05 Apr	1976: Callaghan is new prime minister
07 Apr	1976: Government crisis as Stonehouse quits
30 Mar	1978: Tories recruit advertisers to win votes
14 Dec	1978: Labour faces vote of confidence
28 Mar	1979: Early election as Callaghan defeated
04 May	1979: Election victory for Margaret Thatcher
10 Oct	1980: Thatcher 'not for turning'
10 Nov	1980: Michael Foot is new Labour leader
25 Jan	1981: Dissident Labour MPs plan new party
26 Mar	1981: 'Gang of four' launches new party
18 Feb	1981: Thatcher gives in to miners
09 Jun	1983: Thatcher wins landslide victory
02 Oct	1983: 'Dream ticket' wins Labour leadership
12 Oct	1984: Tory Cabinet in Brighton bomb blast
27 Nov	1985: Kinnock moves against Militant
12 Jun	1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton
11 Jun	1987: Thatcher wins record third term
06 Aug	1987: David Owen resigns as leader of SDP
27 Aug	1987: Maclennan replaces Owen in SDP
28 Jul	1988: Ashdown to lead Britain's third party
05 Dec	1989: Thatcher beats off leadership rival
18 Dec	1989: Labour's union U-turn
20 Jun	1990: Major proposes new Euro currency
20 Nov	1990: Thatcher fails to win party mandate
22 Nov	1990: Thatcher quits as prime minister
27 Nov	1990: Tories choose Major for Number 10
28 Jun	1991: Thatcher to retire from Commons
13 Apr	1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns
12 May	1994: Labour leader John Smith dies at 55
21 Jul	1994: Labour chooses Blair
04 Jul	1995: Major wins Conservative leadership
19 May	1997: Labour to stub out tobacco sponsorship
10 May	1998: Sinn Fein backs peace deal
09 Aug	1999: Kennedy wins Lib Dem leadership
25 Mar	2000: Trimble narrowly wins leadership challenge
16 Jul	2001: Rebel MPs defeat the government
13 Sep	2001: Duncan Smith is new Tory leader
29 Oct	2003: Tory Party leader resigns
06 Dec	2005: David Cameron is new Tory leader