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Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill

1874 – 1965 · aged 91

British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

Born
30 Nov 1874 · Blenheim Palace
Died
24 Jan 1965 · 27 And 28, Hyde Park Gate Sw7
Part ofWorld War II1939 – 1945United Kingdom43 CE – todayUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland1731 – 1942Church of England1676 – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 105 years
  1. 30 Nov 1874BornBorn in Blenheim Palace
  2. 1881 – 1899WarMahdist War
  3. 1889AwardQueen's Sudan Medal
  4. 1895AwardCross of Military Merit with Red Decoration
  5. 1897WarSiege of Malakand
  6. 1899 – 1902WarSecond Boer War
  7. 1900 – 1904RoleMember of the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  8. 1901AwardQueen's South Africa Medal
  9. 1904 – 1906RoleMember of the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  10. 1906 – 1908RoleMember of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  11. 1908 – 1910RoleMember of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  12. 1910RoleMember of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  13. 1910 – 1911RoleHome Secretary
  14. 1910 – 1918RoleMember of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  15. 1911 – 1915RoleFirst Lord of the Admiralty
  16. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  17. 1914 – 1918RoleRector
  18. 1915RoleChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  19. 1917 – 1919RoleMinister of Munitions
  20. 1918 – 1922RoleMember of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom
  21. 1919 – 1921RoleSecretary of State for Air
  22. 1919 – 1921RoleSecretary of State for War
  23. 1919AwardDistinguished Service Medal
  24. 1921 – 1922RoleSecretary of State for the Colonies
  25. 1922AwardCompanion of Honour
  26. 1924 – 1929RoleMember of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  27. 1924AwardTerritorial Decoration
  28. 1924 – 1929RoleChancellor of the Exchequer
  29. 1925AwardCross of Liberty 1st Division, 1st Class
  30. 1929 – 1931RoleMember of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  31. 1929 – 1965RoleChancellor of the University of Bristol
  32. 1931 – 1935RoleMember of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  33. 1935 – 1945RoleMember of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  34. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  35. 1939 – 1940RoleFirst Lord of the Admiralty
  36. 1940RoleColonel
  37. 1940 – 1942RoleLeader of the House of Commons
  38. 1940 – 1945RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  39. 1940 – 1945RoleSecretary of State for Defence
  40. 1940 – 1955RoleLeader of the Conservative Party
  41. 1941 – 1965RoleLord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  42. 1943AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
  43. 1945 – 1950RoleMember of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  44. 1945 – 1951RoleLeader of the Opposition
  45. 1945AwardHonorary citizen of Brussels
  46. 1945AwardAlbert Medal
  47. 1946AwardKnight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
  48. 1946AwardMilitary Medal of Luxembourg
  49. 1949 – 1951RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  50. 1950 – 1951RoleMember of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  51. 1951 – 1955RoleMember of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  52. 1951 – 1955RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  53. 1951 – 1952RoleSecretary of State for Defence
  54. 1955 – 1959RoleMember of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom
  55. 1959 – 1964RoleMember of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  56. 24 Jan 1965DiedDied in 27 And 28, Hyde Park Gate Sw7

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1874 – 1965).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis

Biography

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire into the wealthy, aristocratic Spencer family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill was president of the Board of Trade and later Home Secretary, championing prison reform and workers' social security. As First Lord of the Admiralty before and during the First World War he oversaw the disastrous naval attack on the Dardanelles (a prelude to the Gallipoli campaign) and was demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He resigned in November 1915 and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front for six months. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East. After two years out of Parliament, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning sterling in 1925 to the gold standard, depressing the UK economy.

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