Pre-1979: Pre-premiership Chronology

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Date	Type	Value	Author/Source	Title
45 May 8 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	VE Day
45 Jul 5 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Labour Government formed (146 majority)
45 Aug 6 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Hiroshima destroyed by A-bomb
45 Aug 16 Th		Key	[Chronology]	VJ Day
50 Feb 23 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Labour Government formed (5 majority)
51 Oct 25 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Conservative Government formed (13 majority)
51 Dec 13 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Marriage of Margaret Roberts and Denis Thatcher
53 Dec 1 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	MT took her bar finals
55 Apr 5 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	Churchill resigned as Prime Minister; Eden succeeded
55 May 26 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Conservative Government formed (58 majority)
56 Feb 28 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	MT asked that her name be returned to Conservative candidates' list
56 Jul 26 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Nasser announced nationalisation of Suez Canal
56 Oct 30 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	Anglo-French ultimatum to Israel and Egypt; Soviet invasion of Hungary
56 Oct 31 We		Key	[Chronology]	Anglo-French forces began action against Egypt; abandoned under US pressure 7 Nov
57 Jan 9 We		Key	[Chronology]	Eden resigned as Prime Minister; Macmillan succeeded (10 Jan)
57 Mar 25 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Treaty of Rome
58 Jan 6 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Thorneycroft, Powell and Birch resigned as Treasury Ministers
58 Jul 31 Th		Key	[Chronology]	MT adopted candidate for Finchley
59 Oct 8 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Conservative Government formed (100 majority)
60 Feb 3 We		Major	[Chronology]	Macmillan speaking in South Africa: "a wind of change is blowing through the continent"
61 Oct 9 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	MT appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary (Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance)
62 Jul 13 Fr		Key	[Chronology]	"Night of the Long Knives": 7 of 21 Cabinet Ministers sacked
63 Jan 14 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	De Gaulle vetoed British entry to EEC
63 Feb 14 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Harold Wilson elected Labour leader following death of Gaitskell (18 Jan)
63 Jun 4 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	Profumo resigned
63 Oct 10 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Macmillan’s decision to resign as PM announced; Home succeeded; Macleod and Powell refused to serve (13 Oct)
63 Nov 22 Fr		Major	[Chronology]	Kennedy assassinated
64 Oct 15 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Labour Government formed (4 majority); MT became a shadow spokesman on pensions
65 Jan 24 Su		Major	[Chronology]	Churchill died
65 Jul 25 Su		Key	[Chronology]	Home resigned as Conservative leader; Heath elected successor (28 Jul)
65 Oct 18 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	MT moved to shadow Housing and Land
65 Nov 11 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Rhodesia declared UDI
66 Mar 31 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Labour Government formed (98 majority)
66 Apr 19 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	MT moved to shadow Treasury as deputy to Iain Macleod
66 May 3 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Budget (introduced Selective Employment Tax)
66 Jul 20 We		Major	[Chronology]	Labour spending cuts and wages freeze
66 Nov 10 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Labour Government announced EC entry application; Conservative support
67 Apr 11 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Budget
67 Jun 5 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Middle East: Six Day War (ended 10 Jun)
67 Jul 27 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Britain to withdraw forces East of Suez
67 Oct 10 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	MT appointed to Shadow Cabinet, responsible for Fuel and Power
67 Nov 27 Mo		Major	[Chronology]	De Gaulle vetoed British application to EC
67 Nov 29 We		Major	[Chronology]	Reshuffle: Callaghan became Home Secretary, Jenkins Chancellor
68 Feb 22 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Callaghan announced immediate legislation checking Kenyan Asian immigration
68 Mar 15 Fr		Major	[Chronology]	Sterling under pressure: London Foreign Exchange Market closed; Brown resigned
68 Mar 17 Su		Major	[Chronology]	Grosvenor Square riot against Vietnam War
68 Mar 19 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Budget: 923m increase in indirect taxation
68 Apr 4 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Assassination of Martin Luther King
68 Apr 20 Sa		Key	[Chronology]	Enoch Powell's "River Tiber" speech; Powell fired from Shadow Cabinet (21 Apr)
68 May 3 Fr		Major	[Chronology]	France: student clashes with police began `events' of May 1968
68 Aug 20 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
68 Oct 5 Sa		Major	[Chronology]	Northern Ireland: violence at Londonderry civil rights demonstration
68 Nov 14 Th		Key	[Chronology]	MT reshuffled to shadow Transport
69 Aug 14 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Northern Ireland: troops deployed in Belfast
69 Oct 21 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	MT appointed shadow education spokesman
70 Jan 30 Fr		Key	[Chronology]	Selsdon Park Shadow Cabinet (manifesto meeting); ended 1 Feb
70 Feb 10 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	MT's father died
70 Jun 18 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election: Conservative Government formed (majority 31)
70 Jun 19 Fr		Key	[Chronology]	MT given her first Cabinet post (Secretary of State for Education and Science)
70 Jun 30 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	Circular 10/70, withdrawing compulsion to go comprehensive
70 Jul 20 Mo		Major	[Chronology]	Death of Iain Macleod; Barber became Chancellor
70 Oct 27 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Budget
70 Oct 29 Th		Major	[Chronology]	EC entry talks began
71 Feb 4 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Rolls-Royce nationalisation announced
71 May 20 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Heath-Pompidou summit in Paris removed final obstacles to EC entry
71 Aug 9 Mo		Major	[Chronology]	Northern Ireland: internment introduced
72 Jan 9 Su		Key	[Chronology]	Miners' strike began
72 Jan 12 We		Major	[Chronology]	MT and senior officials met Heath at Chequers; reinforced her authority
72 Jan 20 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Unemployment passed 1m
72 Jan 30 Su		Key	[Chronology]	"Bloody Sunday": British troops killed 13 in Londonderry
72 Feb 10 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Saltley Coke depot closed by pickets
72 Feb 19 Sa		Key	[Chronology]	Heath conceded miners' demands
72 Mar 21 Tu		Key	[Chronology]	Budget: full scale reflation
72 Mar 22 We		Key	[Chronology]	Industry White Paper, basis of 1972 Industry Act
72 Mar 24 Fr		Key	[Chronology]	Northern Ireland: Stormont suspended; direct rule began
72 Jun 23 Fr		Key	[Chronology]	Sterling floated: left European `snake' and unpegged from dollar
72 Jul 21 Fr		Major	[Chronology]	Five dockers jailed in Pentonville (decision reversed 26 Jly)
72 Aug 8 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin
72 Sep 26 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Tripartite talks began (broke down 2 Nov)
72 Nov 6 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Statutory control of pay, prices, dividends and rents (Phase I)
72 Dec 7 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Sutton and Cheam by-election: Liberal gain from Conservatives
73 Jan 1 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Britain acceded to the European Community
73 Jan 17 We		Major	[Chronology]	Phase II of pay policy announced
73 Mar 6 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	Budget: introduced VAT, at 10 per cent
73 Apr 1 Su		Major	[Chronology]	Phase II of pay policy began
73 May 21 Mo		Major	[Chronology]	Sex scandals hit government (Lambton resigned; Jellicoe followed (24 May))
73 Jul 26 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Ripon and Ely by-elections: Liberal gains from Conservatives
73 Oct 6 Sa		Key	[Chronology]	Arab-Israeli War (ended 24 Oct); oil price increased 70 per cent
73 Oct 8 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	Phase III announced: 2.25 or 7 per cent; inflation linked `threshold' payments
73 Nov 12 Mo		Key	[Chronology]	NUM overtime ban began; State of Emergency following day
73 Dec 2 Su		Major	[Chronology]	Reshuffle: Whitelaw became Employment Secretary
73 Dec 9 Su		Key	[Chronology]	Sunningdale Agreement
73 Dec 13 Th		Key	[Chronology]	Three day week announced
73 Dec 17 Mo		Major	[Chronology]	Emergency budget: 1200m reduction in planned expenditure
74 Jan 9 We		Major	[Chronology]	TUC offered to treat miners' pay claim as special case; rejected by government
74 Feb 5 Tu		Major	[Chronology]	NUM strike ballot: 81 per cent in favour
74 Feb 7 Th		Key	[Chronology]	General Election called for 28 Feb
74 Feb 10 Su		Key	[Chronology]	Miners' strike began (ended 11 Mar)
74 Feb 21 Th		Major	[Chronology]	Pay Board leak: miners claim consistent with Phase III
74 Feb 23 Sa		Major	[Chronology]	Powell said he would vote Labour

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