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Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)

United Kingdom government cabinet minister heading the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

7 dated entries naming Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom), drawn from 6 separate years between 1809 CE and 2019 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1809September 21 – British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.source
  • 1822August 12 – Lord Castlereagh, the British Foreign Secretary, commits suicide at his house in Kent. He is judged to have been insane at the time.source
  • 1822September 16 – George Canning is appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.source

20th century

  • 1917November 2 – Zionism: The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".source
  • 1935December 18 – Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary, and is replaced by Anthony Eden.source
  • 1968March 14 – Late this evening, the U.K. government at the request of the U.S. agrees that the London Gold Pool will be closed from tomorrow. George Brown, the British Foreign Secretary, apparently drunk, is absent from meetings to discuss the crisis and is forced to resign from the government on March 15.source

21st century

  • 2019July 19 – The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.source

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