TIMELINE OF EVENTS

1874 Born, 30 November

1876 Churchill family moves to Dublin

1880 Churchill family returns to England

1882 Enrolled at St George’s School at Ascot

1884 Enrolled at Brunswick School in Hove

1886 Father becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer

1887 Enrolled at Harrow

1893 Enrolled at Royal Military College at Sandhurst

1894 Commissioned cavalry officer in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars

1895 Father dies

Writes for the Daily Graphic covering the Spanish American War in Cuba

First visit to the United States

1896 Stationed in India and undergoes self-education

1897 Covers siege of the Malakand for the Daily Telegraph and sees action in the Malakand Field Force on the North-West Frontier of India

1898 Publishes first book

Participates in and covers the Battle of Omdurman in Sudan for the Morning Post

1899 Unsuccessfully stands for Parliament in Oldham by-election

Becomes prisoner of war in South Africa and a national hero when he escapes

1900 Successfully stands for Oldham

Visits United States and Canada on lecture tour

1901 Maiden speech in Parliament

1904 Switches from Tories to Liberals

1905 Becomes Colonial Under-Secretary

1907 Tours Africa

1908 Promoted to President of the Board of Trade

Marries Clementine Hozier

1909 Diana Churchill born

1910 Becomes Home Secretary

1911 Siege of Sidney Street

Randolph Churchill born

Becomes First Lord of the Admiralty

1913 Founds Royal Naval Flying Corps

1914 Outbreak of the First World War

Commands Defence of Antwerp

Sarah Churchill born

1915 The Dardanelles

Dismissed from the Admiralty

Demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1916 Commissioned as lieutenant-colonel and commands 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers

1917 Rejoins the Government as Minister for Munitions

1918 First World War armistice

Marigold Churchill born

1919 Becomes Secretary for War and Air

1921 Becomes Colonial Secretary

Founds Middle East Department in Colonial Office

Chairs Cairo Conference, founding Jordan and Iraq

Death of Marigold Churchill

1922 Chanak crisis and fall of the Lloyd George coalition

Loses Dundee election

Mary Churchill born

1924 ‘Re-rats’ to the Tory Party

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer

1925 Returns Britain to the Gold Standard

1926 General Strike

1929 Churchill returns to the USA on a tour

1931 Not invited to join the cabinet because of his views on Indian independence

Hit by motor car in New York

1932 Enters political wilderness

Nearly meets Adolf Hitler in Germany

1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

1935 Stanley Baldwin appointed Prime Minister

1936 Abdication crisis

1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister

1938 Munich Agreement

1939 ‘Churchill is Back!’ He is named First Lord of the Admiralty

Molotov–Ribbentrop pact signed, 23 August

Hitler invades Poland starting the Second World War, 1 September

1940 Churchill is named Prime Minister, 10 May

Churchill convinces the cabinet to fight on, 28 May

Dunkirk evacuation, May/June

Fall of Paris, June

Establishment of Vichy France, 22 June

Churchill orders attack on French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, 3 July

Battle of Britain begins, 10 July

1941 British troops evacuate Greece, 30 April

Hitler breaks the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact and unleashes Operation Barbarossa, 22 June

Atlantic Charter signed, 14 August

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, bringing the USA into the war, 7 December

1942 Fall of Singapore, February

Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad, 22 August

Battle of El Alamein, November

1943 First Quebec Conference, August

Invasion of the Italian mainland, 3 September

Teheran Conference, November

1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy, 6 June

Second Quebec Conference, September

1945 Yalta Conference, February

Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 12 April

Hitler commits suicide, 30 April

VE Day, 8 May

Potsdam Conference, July

Conservatives lose general election and Churchill loses his premiership, July

End of the Second World War, 2 September

1946 Describes the ‘Iron Curtain’ in ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech at Fulton, Missouri, 5 March

Gives the ‘United States of Europe’ speech in Zurich, 19 September

1951 Tories win the 1951 general election and Churchill returns as Prime Minister, 25 October

1953 Churchill suffers significant stroke, June

1955 Retires as Prime Minister, 6 April

1961 Visits the USA for the last time on Aristotle Onassis’s yacht Christina

1963 Named first honorary citizen of the United States by John F. Kennedy

1964 Stands down as MP for Woodford, 15 October

1965 Dies seventy years to the day after his father’s death, 24 January

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