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| 1892 | Election |  |
| Elected Member of Parliament |
| 1895 | Civil Lord of the Admiralty | |
| Appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty |
| 1895 | Secretary of Colonies | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary |
| 1900 | Secretary Treasury | |
| Appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
| 1901 | Chancellor | |
| Birmingham Appointed Chancellor of Birmingham University |
| 1902 | Postmaster General | |
| Appointed Postmaster General |
| 1903 | Chancellor | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1903 | Imperial Preference | |
| 24th April Birmingham Makes a speech in favour of Imperial Preference |
| 28th May London Makes a speech in favour of Imperial Preference |
| 1903 | Resignation | |
| 16th Sep London Resigns after Balfour fails to support the introduction of tariffs |
| 1915 | Secretary of India | |
| Appointed Secretary of State for India |
| 1917 | Resignation | |
| London Resigns after assuming responsipility for the Mesopotamia affair |
| 1918 | War Cabinet | |
| London Appointed Member of the War Cabinet |
| 1919 | Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term |
| 1921 | Independence | |
| London Urges the creation of the Irish Free State |
| 1921 | Irish Free State | |
| London Urges the creation of the Irish Free State |
| 1921 | Lord Privy Seal | |
| Appointed Lord Privy Seal |
| 1921 | Party Leader | |
| London Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party |
| 1922 | Election | |
| Loses the party leadership because of his involvement in the Irish settlement of 1921 |
| 1924 | Chancellor | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1924 | Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1925 | Diplomacy | |
| Facilitates Germany's membership into the League of Nations |
| 1925 | Invasion of Poland | |
| London "No British government will risk the bones of a British grenadier" |
| 1925 | League of Nations | |
| The Council of the League is required to rule on alleged breaches of the treaty & Britain & Italy are, as guarantors, only obliged to intervene without awaiting such a decision in the event of a 'flagrant contravention' |
| 1925 | Nobel Prize | |
| Winner of the Nobel peace Prize, negotiated the Locarno Pact fixing German boundaries |
| 1925 | Treaty of Locarno | |
| Locarno Conducts the diplomacy which leads to the signing of the Locarno Pact |
| Locarno The principle treaty is signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, under which the first three signatories undertook not to attack each other, with the latter two acting as guarantors |
| 1st Dec London The decision to hold the signing ceremony in London was taken before the delegates left Locarno, a recognition of Chamberlain's pivotal role in bringing together Europe's former adversaries |
| 1925 | Treaty of Mutual Guarantee | |
| The Council of the League is required to rule on alleged breaches of the treaty & Britain & Italy are, as guarantors, only obliged to intervene without awaiting such a decision in the event of a 'flagrant contravention' |
| 1928 | Pact | |
| 27th Aug London 63 powers renounce war |
| 27th Aug London Devised by Frank Kellog & Aristride Briand |
| 1928 | Publication | |
| 1st publication of, "Peace In Our Time" |
| 1931 | First Lord of the Admiralty | |
| London Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty |
