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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
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