1898 Churchill with Lancers at Omdurman
Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman

1910 Churchill becomes Home Secretary
Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government

1915  January Churchill devises Gallipoli campaign
Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea

1915 Churchill supports the tank
Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty

1922 Churchill buys Chartwell
Winston Churchill buys Chartwell, a house in Kent that remains his home until his death

1924 Churchill is chancellor
Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party

1940 Harold Macmillan's first government job
Winston Churchill gives Harold Macmillan his first ministerial appointment, in the Department of Supply

1940  May 10 Churchill replaces Chamberlain
After the German invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium, Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as the British prime minister

1940  May 13 Blood, toil, tears and sweat
Winston Churchill, in his first speech to the House of Commons as prime minister, offers the nation nothing but 'blood, toil, tears and sweat'

1940  May 14 Home Guard in Britain
The Local Defence Volunteers are formed in Britain and are soon given, on Winston Churchill's suggestion, the name Home Guard

1940 August 20 Churchill praises the Few
Churchill says of the Battle of Britain pilots that never has so much been owed by so many to so few

1941 July Auchinleck takes command in north Africa
Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East

1941 August 14 Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill publish a joint Atlantic Charter, foreseeing a future free from 'Nazi tyranny'

1942 Harold Macmillan in north Africa
Churchill gives Harold Macmillan an unusual job, negotiating on behalf of the British government in north Africa and reporting directly to Churchill

1943  January I2 Casablanca conference
Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca for a strategic conference

1944 Harold Macmillan in Greece and Balkans
Churchill extends Harold Macmillan's responsibilities to include developments in Greece and the Balkans

1945  February 4 Summit at Yalta
Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Yalta to discuss Allied post-war plans

1945 July 17 Summit at Potsdam
Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet for a summit conference in Potsdam

1945 July 26 Labour wins UK election
The British electorate dismisses Winston Churchill, giving the Labour party and Clement Attlee a landslide victory

1945 July 26 Attlee replaces Churchill at Potsdam
Winston Churchill, losing the postwar general election in Britain, has to yield his seat at Potsdam in mid-conference to Clement Attlee

1946  March 5 Iron curtain across Europe
Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe

1951 Harold Macmillan in charge of housing
Appointed minister of housing in Churchill's new government, Harold Macmillan soon achieves the ambitious target of building 300,000 houses a year

1951 Churchill returns to Downing Street
Labour loses the general election and Winston Churchill returns to Downing Street as prime minister

1954 Harold Macmillan is minister of defence
Churchill moves Harold Macmillan to a new department, as minister of defence

1954 Sutherland's portrait of Churchill
A painting by Graham Sutherland, commissioned for Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, does not meet with the full approval of the sitter or his wife

1954 Churchill's Second World War
Politician and author Winston Churchill completes his six-volume history The Second World War

1955 Eden is UK prime minister
81-year-old Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister and is succeeded by Anthony Eden

1965 Churchill lies in state
Winston Churchill dies, and lies in state in London's ancient Westminster Hall

1972 Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London