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| 1866 | Gladstone, William Ewart |  |
| 10th May City of London Suspends the Bank Charter Act & raises the bank rate to 10%, causes panic & depression |
| 10th May Guernsey The Bank of Overend & Gurney fails |
| 1898 | Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot | |
| 27th Oct Fashoda Rejects talks with France until the French troops are withdrawn from Fashoda |
| 1922 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Chanak The Chanak Crisis brings down Lloyd George's government |
| 1922 | Lloyd George, David | |
| Chanak The Chanak crisis leads to the downfall of the government |
| 1939 | Chamberlain, Neville | |
| 21st Aug Danzig Calls an emergency Cabinet meeting on the Danzig crisis & threat to peace |
| 1947 | Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor | |
| Britain suffers from an acute fuel shortage in the autumn |
| 1952 | Eden, Robert Anthony | |
| 25th Jan Ismalia Anti-British riots follow after the British sieze the police HQ at Ismailia |
| 1956 | Eden, Robert Anthony | |
| Suez Canal Eden compares Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal with the nationalism of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler 20 yrs earlier |
| Suez Canal The Canal owners, Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, hod a secret meeting between Israel, France & Britain at SŠvres, outside Paris |
| 23rd Sep Suez Canal Submits the Suez dispute to the UN Security Council |
| 30th Oct Suez Canal Egypt turns down the Anglo-French ultimatum for a cease-fire |
| 30th Oct Suez Canal Israel accepts the Anglo-French ultimatum to withdraw 10 miles from Suez |
| 31st Oct Suez Canal British & French planes bomb Egyptian airfields |
| 31st Oct Suez Canal The UK & France bomb Egypt to force the reopening of the canal with Operation Musketeer, Nasser then sinks all 40 ships in the canal & closes it until 1957 |
| Nov Suez Canal The Allies agree Israel should invade & Britain & France would intervene & instruct the Israeli & Egyptian armies to withdraw 10 miles either side of the canal |
| Nov Suez Canal The USAwill support Britain if it accepts the UN solution, the pound collapses |
| 4th Nov Suez Canal Makes a TV broadcast to the nation appealing for national unity |
| 4th Nov Suez Canal The UN adopts a Canadian resolution to send a UN force, Britain & France abstain |
| 5th Nov Port Said Paratroops land to recover the canal Eden says is vital if Britain is not to starve |
| 5th Nov Suez Canal the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment drops at El Gamil Airfield, establishing a secure base for incoming support aircraft & reinforcement |
| 7th Nov Suez Canal Britain says she will evacuate her troops from Suez on the arrival of the UN forces |
| 7th Nov Suez Canal Cease-fire commences after the Russian threat of rockets |
| 7th Nov Suez Canal Eden announces in the Commons UN forces will be used & military operations cease |
| 8th Nov Suez Canal No confidence debate in the Commons |
| 15th Nov Suez Canal The UN forces arrive in Suez |
| 22nd Nov Port Said The last Anglo-French forces leave Port Said |
| 14th Dec Suez Canal Makes a speech in the Commons denying all knowedge of the invasion of Suez |
| 27th Dec Suez Canal The UN fleet begins clearing the canal of scuttled ships |
| 1956 | Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor | |
| 5th Nov Suez Canal Goes on television & calls for Eden's resignation |
| 5th Nov Suez Canal Goes on television & denounces Eden as "utterly discredited in the world" |
| 1956 | Heath, Edward Richard George | |
| 4th Nov Suez Canal Chief Whip during the Suez crisis |
| 1956 | MacMillan, Maurice Harold | |
| 7th Nov Washington Sent to Washington to gain support for a collapsing œ |
| 1956 | Wilson, James Harold | |
| Claims Eden lost lives Hungary as Russia invaded during the Suez crisis |
| Birmingham Makes a speech condeming Anglo-French intervention, to his relief it is well received |
| 1963 | Keeler, Christine | |
| London Profumo has sex with Chris tine Keeler who sleeps with a Russian naval attache |
| 1963 | Profumo, John | |
| London Profumo has sex with Chris tine Keeler who sleeps with a Russian naval attache |
| 4th June London Resigns before being exposed for lying to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons |
| 1964 | Wilson, James Harold | |
| London Cromer, Governor of the Bank of England, raises $3,000 million to protect sterling |
| Nov London A sterling crisis |
| 1966 | Wilson, James Harold | |
| London Says a Daily Express article threatens security as defined by the D-Notice |
| London The Daily Express is cleared of acting against the national interest |
| July London Sterling crisis followed by a period of deflation |
| 1968 | Wilson, James Harold | |
| 6th Dec London Rumours of coalition government & abdication of the Queen cause stock market panic |
| 1975 | Wilson, James Harold | |
| Dec The government is forced to invest œ184 million to prevent Chrysler leaving the UK |
| 1986 | Brittan, Leon | |
| 25th Jan London Resigns over the Westland Affair |
| 1986 | Heseltine, Michael | |
| 9th Jan London Michael Heseltine resigns from Cabinet during the Westland crisis |
| 1986 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 9th Jan London Michael Heseltine resigns as a result of the Westland Helicopter crisis |
| 25th Jan London Resigns over the Westland Affair |
| 1989 | Brittan, Leon | |
| 5th April London Leon Brittan reveals PM's Private Secretary & Press Officer leaked the Westland letter |
| 1989 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 5th April London Leon Brittan reveals PM's Private Secretary & Press Officer leaked the Westland letter |
| 1990 | Gummer, John Selwyn | |
| 6th Feb London Announces increased compensation to farmers affected by BSE |
