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| 1892 | Solicitor General |  |
| Appointed Solicitor General for Ireland
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| 1900 | Solicitor General | |
| Appointed Solicitor General
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| 1910 | Independence | |
| 21st Feb Opposes Irish Home Rule
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| 1910 | Party Leader | |
| 21st Feb Appointed Party Leader of the Ulster Unionists
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| 1915 | Attorney | |
| 25th May Asquith appoints Carson Attorney-General when the Coalition Government is formed after the Liberal government was bought down by the Shell Crisis
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| 1915 | Resignation | |
| 19th Oct Carson becomes the leader of those Unionists who were not members of the government, effectively Leader of the Opposition in the Commons
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| 19th Oct Resigns over the war in the Balkans, which had left two British and one French division in Salonica instead of being dispatched to support the Serbs who were being attacked by from the north and Bulgaria from the east
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| 1916 | First Lord of the Admiralty | |
| 10th Dec When Asquith resigned, he returns to office as First Lord of the Admiralty
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| 1916 | Vote Confidence | |
| 8th Nov A motion forwarded by Carson on ownership of property in Nigeria creates a crisis
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| 1917 | Minister | |
| 17th July Appointed Minister without Portfolio
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| 1917 | Resignation | |
| 19th July Resigns as First Lord of the Admiralty
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| 1917 | War Cabinet | |
| 17th July Appointed Member of the War Cabinet, without portfolio
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| 1918 | Constitution | |
| 21st Jan The Parliament of Northern Ireland is established
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| 1918 | Election | |
| Belfast Elected for Belfast Duncairn
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| 1918 | Resignation | |
| 21st Jan The government decided to extend conscription to Ireland, and that Ireland would have to be given home rule in order to make it acceptable, Carson disagrees in principle and again resigns
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| 1918 | Rule of Ireland | |
| 21st Jan The government decided to extend conscription to Ireland, and that Ireland would have to be given home rule in order to make it acceptable, Carson disagrees in principle and again resigns
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| 1918 | Rule of Ulster | |
| 21st Jan The government decided to extend conscription to Ireland, and that Ireland would have to be given home rule in order to make it acceptable, Carson disagrees in principle and again resigns
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| 21st Jan The Parliament of Northern Ireland is established
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| 1920 | Legislation | |
| Ulster When the Government of Ireland Act 1920 is introduced, advises his party to work for the exemption of six Ulster counties from Home Rule as the best compromise (a compromise he had previously rejected)
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| 1920 | Rule of Ireland | |
| Ulster When the Government of Ireland Act 1920 is introduced, advises his party to work for the exemption of six Ulster counties from Home Rule as the best compromise (a compromise he had previously rejected)
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| 1921 | Lords of Appeal in Ordinary | |
| 24th May Appointed one of seven Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
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| 1921 | Peerage | |
| 1st June Duncairn Created a life peer as Baron Carson, of Duncairn in the County of Antrim
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| 1921 | Resignation | |
| 4th Feb Resigns as Party Leader
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