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James Callaghan
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James Callaghan

1912 – 2005 · aged 93

Former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)

Born
27 Mar 1912 · Copnor
Died
26 Mar 2005 · Ringmer

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 27 Mar 1912BornBorn in Copnor
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1945 – 1950RoleMember of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  4. 1947 – 1950RoleParliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
  5. 1949 – 1950RoleSubstitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  6. 1950 – 1951RoleMember of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  7. 1950 – 1951RoleSecretary to the Admiralty
  8. 1950 – 1951RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  9. 1951 – 1955RoleMember of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  10. 1954 – 1955RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  11. 1955 – 1959RoleMember of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom
  12. 1959 – 1964RoleMember of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  13. 1961 – 1964RoleShadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
  14. 1964 – 1966RoleMember of the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  15. 1964 – 1967RoleChancellor of the Exchequer
  16. 1966 – 1970RoleMember of the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  17. 1967 – 1970RoleHome Secretary
  18. 1970 – 1974RoleMember of the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  19. 1970 – 1971RoleShadow Home Secretary
  20. 1971 – 1972RoleShadow Secretary of State for Employment
  21. 1972 – 1974RoleShadow Foreign Secretary
  22. 1974RoleMember of the 46th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  23. 1974 – 1976RoleSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  24. 1974 – 1979RoleMember of the 47th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  25. 1976 – 1980RoleLeader of the Labour Party
  26. 1976 – 1979RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  27. 1979 – 1983RoleMember of the 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  28. 1979 – 1980RoleLeader of the Opposition
  29. 1983 – 1987RoleMember of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  30. 1987 – 2005RoleMember of the House of Lords
  31. 1987AwardKnight of the Garter
  32. 1996AwardHonorary doctorate
  33. 26 Mar 2005DiedDied in Ringmer

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1912 – 2005).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  17. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  18. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  19. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  20. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  21. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  22. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  23. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  25. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  26. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  28. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  29. 1956Suez Crisis
  30. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  32. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  34. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  36. 1968Prague Spring
  37. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  38. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  39. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  40. 19781978 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff ( KAL-ə-han; 27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is the only person to have held all four Great Offices of State, having also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970 and Foreign Secretary from 1974 to 1976. He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1987.

Born into a working-class family in Portsmouth, Callaghan left school early and began his career as a tax inspector, before becoming a trade union official in the 1930s. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was elected to Parliament at the 1945 election, and was at that time regarded as being on the left wing of the Labour Party. He was appointed to the Attlee government as a parliamentary secretary in 1947, and began to move increasingly towards the right wing of the Labour Party, while maintaining his reputation as a "Keeper of the Cloth Cap" – that is, seen as maintaining close ties between Labour and the trade unions. Following Labour's defeat at the 1951 election, Callaghan increasingly became regarded as a leader of the right wing of the Labour Party, and stood for the positions of deputy leader in 1960 and for leader in 1963, but was defeated by George Brown for the former and Harold Wilson for the latter.

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