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1950 AD            - (23 Feb)                 - Labour wins the general election with Clement Attlee returned as Prime Minister
                          - (29 Aug)                 - British troops arrive to support US forces in the Korean War
1951 AD            - (03 May)                - Festival of Britain is opened by George VI
                          - (23 Oct)                  - Conservatives under Winston Churchill win the general election
1952 AD            - (06 Feb)                 - Elizabeth II succeeds her father George VI as Queen
1953 AD            - (25 Apr)                 - Watson and Crick publish their discovery of the structure of DNA
1955 AD            - (05 Apr)                 - Winston Churchill retires as Prime Minister
                           - (26 May)                - Conservatives win the general election, with Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister
                           - (22 Sept)               - Commercial Television starts with the first ITV broadcast
1956 AD            - (11 Feb)                 - ‘Cambridge spies’ surface in Moscow after disappearing in 1951
                           - (08 May)                - John Osborne’s play ‘Look Back in Anger’ is staged
                           - (05 Jul)                   - Worsening pollution prompts the passing of the Clean Air Act
                           - (17 Oct)                  - Britain switches on its first nuclear power station
                           - (05 Nov)                 - Britain and France invade Egypt after nationalisation of the Suez Canal
1957 AD            - (09 Jan)                   - Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns and is replaced by Harold Macmillan
                           - (06 Mar)                 - Ghana becomes the first British colony in Africa to gain independence
                           - (15 May)                - Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb
1958 AD             - (05 Dec)                 - Motorway system opens with the M^ Preston bypass
1959 AD             - (08 Oct)                 - Conservatives under Harold Macmillan win the general election
1963 AD             - (14 Jan)                  - France vetoes Britain’s entry to the European Common Market
                           - (Oct)                       - New universities open and students get state support
                           - (19 Oct)                  - Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Hulme becomes Prime Minister
1964 AD             -                                - Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance prompts the rise of supermarkets
                           - (15 Oct)                  - Labour wins the general election with Harold Wilson as Prime Minister
1965 AD             - (12 Jul)                   - Comprehensive education system is initiated
                            - (08 Nov)                - Death penalty is abolished
1966 AD             - (31 Mar)                 - Labour strengthens its parliamentary position in the general election
                            - (30 Jul)                   - England win the Football World Cup
1967 AD              -                               - Abortion and homosexuality are legalised
                             - (01 Jun)                 - Beatles release ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
1969 AD              - (02 Mar)                - Concorde, the World’s first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight
1970 AD              - (18 Jun)                  - Conservatives win the general election, with Edward Heath as Prime Minister
1971 AD              - (06 Feb)                 - First British soldier is killed in Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’
                            - (15 Feb)                 - Decimalised currency replaces ‘pounds, shillings and pence’
                            - (20 Aug)                 - North Sea Oil concessions are auctioned
1972 AD              - ( 30 Jan)                 - British army kills 14 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. ‘On Bloody Sunday’
                            - (04 Aug)                 - Idi Amin expels Uganda’s Asians and many settle in Britain
1973 AD              - (01 Jan)                  - Britain joins the European Economic Community
1974 AD              - (28 Feb)                 - Election ends in a ‘hung parliament’ with Harold Wilson as Prime Minister
                            - (10 Oct)                  - Labour wins a tiny majority in the election with Harold Wilson as Prime Minister
                            - (16 Mar)                 - Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns and is replaced by James Callaghan
1976 AD              - (Sept)                     - Britain is forced to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund
1978 AD              - (25 Jul)                   - World’s first test-tube baby is born in Oldham
1978-79 AD        - (Winter)                  - Strikes paralyse Britain during the so-called ‘Winter of Discontent’
1979 AD             - (01 Mar)                - Scotland and Wales reject devolution
                            - (03 May)                - Conservative Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female Prime Minister
                            - (27 Aug)                 - IRA kill the Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten