24 Feb	1950: Labour wins slim majority
31 Dec	1951: Churchill sets sail for talks with Truman
05 Apr	1955: Sir Winston Churchill resigns
17 May	1955: Eden takes to the airwaves
27 May	1955: Election victory for Tories under Eden
07 Dec	1955: Attlee steps down as Labour leader
14 Dec	1955: Gaitskell elected Labour leader
29 Feb	1956: Hopes for Mid East peace mission
09 Jan	1957: Sir Anthony Eden resigns
15 May	1957: Britain drops its first H-bomb
09 Oct	1959: 'Supermac' leads Tories to victory
31 Jul	1962: Violence flares at Mosley rally
18 Jan	1963: Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell dies
22 Mar	1963: Profumo denies affair with model
05 Jun	1963: Profumo resigns over sex scandal
24 Jan	1965: Winston Churchill dies
30 Jan	1965: Last farewell to Churchill
22 Jul	1965: Sir Alec steps down from top of Tory tree
12 Jan	1966: UK politicians assaulted in Rhodesia
11 Oct	1967: Harold Wilson wins Moving apology
20 Apr	1968: Powell slates immigration policy
19 Jun	1970: Shock election win for Heath
12 Jan	1971: British minister's home bombed
23 Jun	1972: Chancellor orders pound flotation
10 Jul	1972: Whitelaw's secret meeting with IRA
28 May	1974: Strikes topple NI power-sharing body
11 Oct	1974: Labour scrapes working majority
28 Oct	1974: Minister's wife survives bomb attack
22 Dec	1974: Heath's home is bombed
24 Dec	1974: 'Drowned' Stonehouse found alive
11 Feb	1975: Tories choose first woman leader
16 Mar	1976: Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns
05 Apr	1976: Callaghan is new prime minister
07 Apr	1976: Government crisis as Stonehouse quits
09 Apr	1976: Young Liberal leader cleared of robbery
03 Jan	1977: Jenkins quits Commons for Brussels
27 Oct	1977: Liberal MP denies murder plot
07 Sep	1978: Callaghan accused of running scared
20 Nov	1978: Liberal MP accused of murder plot
14 Dec	1978: Labour faces vote of confidence
10 Jan	1979: 'No chaos here' declares Callaghan
30 Mar	1979: Car bomb kills Airey Neave
22 Mar	1979: British ambassador assassinated in Holland
28 Mar	1979: Early election as Callaghan defeated
04 May	1979: Election victory for Margaret Thatcher
14 Aug	1979: Disgraced ex-MP released from jail
07 Dec	1979: Lord Soames to govern Rhodesia
10 Oct	1980: Thatcher 'not for turning'
10 Nov	1980: Michael Foot is new Labour leader
05 May	1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison
21 Oct	1982: Sinn Fein triumph in elections
15 Jan	1982: Mark Thatcher found safe and well
09 Jun	1983: Thatcher wins landslide victory
02 Oct	1983: 'Dream ticket' wins Labour leadership
14 Oct	1983: Parkinson quits over lovechild scandal
15 Jan	1984: Benn back on road to Westminster
14 Mar	1984: Sinn Fein leader shot in street attack
12 Oct	1984: Tory Cabinet in Brighton bomb blast
29 Jan	1985: Thatcher snubbed by Oxford dons
27 Nov	1985: Kinnock moves against Militant
09 Jan	1986: Heseltine quits over Westland
24 Jan	1986: Leon Brittan quits over Westland
12 Jun	1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton
26 Oct	1986: Archer quits over prostitute allegations
29 Dec	1986: Harold Macmillan dies
06 Aug	1987: David Owen resigns as leader of SDP
16 Apr	1987: MP on gay sex charges
11 Jun	1987: Thatcher wins record third term
24 Jul	1987: Archer wins record damages
27 Aug	1987: Maclennan replaces Owen in SDP
28 Jul	1988: Ashdown to lead Britain's third party
03 Dec	1988: Egg industry fury over salmonella claim
05 Dec	1989: Thatcher beats off leadership rival
20 Jun	1990: Major proposes new Euro currency
08 Oct	1990: Britain's first full day in ERM
01 Nov	1990: Howe resigns over Europe policy
22 Nov	1990: Thatcher quits as prime minister
27 Nov	1990: Tories choose Major for Number 10
28 Nov	1990: Tearful farewell from Iron Lady
28 Jun	1991: Thatcher to retire from Commons
11 Jul	1991: Anti-poll tax MP jailed
22 Jul	1991: Citizen's charter promises better services
27 Apr	1992: Betty Boothroyd is new Speaker
30 Jun	1992: Thatcher takes her place in Lords
13 Apr	1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns
24 Sep	1992: Mellor resigns over sex scandal
26 Apr	1993: Recession over - it's official
24 Jun	1993: Minister resigns over business links
08 Feb	1994: Police probe MP's suspicious death
12 May	1994: Labour leader John Smith dies at 55
21 Jul	1994: Labour chooses Blair
04 Jul	1995: Major wins Conservative leadership
12 Jun	1997: Straw to reconsider Bulger killers' fate
19 Jul	1997: IRA declares ceasefire
18 Dec	1997: Dawn of Scottish parliament
19 Dec	1997: Tory leader weds
24 Dec	1997: Minister's son arrested in drug probe
10 May	1998: Sinn Fein backs peace deal
08 Jun	1999: Liar Aitken jailed for 18 months
07 Jan	2000: Aitken freed from prison early
26 Apr	2000: Minister sees immigrants captured
04 May	2000: Ken Livingstone voted London mayor
20 May	2000: Blairs' delight at birth of fourth child
07 Jun	2000: Blair 'handbagged' by the WI
03 Jul	2000: Livingstone to take on government
24 Jan	2001: Mandelson resigns - again
16 May	2001: Prescott punches protester
13 Sep	2001: Duncan Smith is new Tory leader
29 Oct	2003: Tory Party leader resigns
18 Nov	2003: High security as Bush visits UK
15 Dec	2004: Blunkett resigns over visa accusations