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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

head of government of the United Kingdom

100 dated entries naming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, drawn from 78 separate years between 1676 CE and 2022 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.

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17th century

  • 1676August 26 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)source

18th century

  • 1735September 28 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)source
  • 1738April 14 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)source
  • 1743August 27 – Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.source
  • 1754March 6 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)source
  • 1759October 25 – William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834)source
  • 1762November 1 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)source
  • 1764The Royal Colony of North Carolina establishes a new county from the eastern portion of Granville County and names it Bute County for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain. In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county, when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.source
  • 1764March 13 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 26th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)source
  • 1770April 11 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)source
  • 1770June 7 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)source
  • 1779March 15 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)source
  • 1782November 1 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)source
  • 1784January 28 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)source
  • 1784October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)source
  • 1792August 18 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)source
  • 1799March 29 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)source

19th century

  • 1801February 4 – William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1801March 14 – Henry Addington becomes First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1804April 26 – Henry Addington resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1806January 23 – Following the death of William Pitt the Younger, his cousin Lord Grenville succeeds him as wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1809October 30 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)source
  • 1811March 14 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)source
  • 1812May 11 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)source
  • 1827April 10 – George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1827August 31 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the death of George Canning.source
  • 1827August 8 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)source
  • 1828January 22 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1830February 3 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)source
  • 1830November 22 – The Whig Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1834December 10 – Sir Robert Peel succeeds The Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1834January 12 – William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)source
  • 1834July 16 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1834November 14 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne becomes the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be dismissed by the British monarch. King William IV temporarily appoints Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to form a caretaker government.source
  • 1835April 18 – Lord Melbourne succeeds Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1836September 7 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)source
  • 1844February 15 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)source
  • 1845July 17 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)source
  • 1846May 15 – Under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Peel, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to repeal the Corn Laws by passing an Importation Bill, replacing the old colonial mercantile trade system with free trade in response to the Great Famine (Ireland). On June 25 the Duke of Wellington persuades the House of Lords to pass the Act, which will take full effect from February 1849. Peel, however, is forced to resign.source
  • 1847May 7 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)source
  • 1848July 25 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)source
  • 1848November 24 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)source
  • 1852September 12 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)source
  • 1855January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War.source
  • 1858September 16 – Bonar Law, Canadian-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)source
  • 1859January 28 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)source
  • 1860December 14 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)source
  • 1863January 17 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)source
  • 1865October 18 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)source
  • 1869October 23 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)source
  • 1878May 28 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)source
  • 1880April 18 – 1880 United Kingdom general election: William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli, to become Prime Minister for the second time.source
  • 1885June 23 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1892July 4–26 – British general election: The Conservative and Liberal Unionist coalition government loses its majority in the House of Commons, eventually leading to Prime Minister Lord Salisbury's resignation on August 12.source
  • 1894February 10 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)source

20th century

  • 1902July 11 – Lord Salisbury retires as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1905March 20 – The title Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is officially recognised by King Edward VII by a royal warrant.source
  • 1908April 22 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)source
  • 1908April 8 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.source
  • 1923October 30 – Bonar Law, British politician, 39th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)source
  • 1924January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1928February 15 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)source
  • 1929May 21 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)source
  • 1930March 19 – Arthur Balfour, British politician and statesman, 48th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)source
  • 1935November 14 – 1935 United Kingdom general election: Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returns to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party, with a large but reduced majority.source
  • 1937May 28 – Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the retirement of Stanley Baldwin.source
  • 1940April 4 – Neville Chamberlain, UK Prime Minister, in what proves to be a tragic misjudgment, declares in a major public speech that Hitler has "missed the bus".source
  • 1940With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1943November 22–26 – WWII: Cairo Conference ("Sextant") – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Chairman of the National Government of China Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan in the Pacific War.source
  • 1945February 4–11 – WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.source
  • 1945July 26 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party in the 1945 general election. Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister. It is the first time that Labour has governed Britain with a majority in the House of Commons.source
  • 1945March 26 – David Lloyd George, British politician and statesman, 51st Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)source
  • 1951February 20 – Gordon Brown, Scottish-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdomsource
  • 1951October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th birthday) in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government, after 6 years in power.source
  • 1955April 5 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, due to ill-health, at the age of 80.source
  • 1955April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1956October 1 – Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdomsource
  • 1957January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1960February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – modern-day Ghana – on January 10).source
  • 1960January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana).source
  • 1962September 2 – Keir Starmer, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdomsource
  • 1963October 19 – Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1964June 19 – Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2019–2022source
  • 1966October 9 – David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2010–2016source
  • 1976April 5 – James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1979November 15 – British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as the "fourth man" of the 'Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; she gives further details on November 21.source
  • 1984October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing with an explosive device planted nearly a month earlier in their conference hotel. The terror attack kills five people and injures 31.source
  • 1986October 29 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher officially opens the M25 Motorway, which encircles Greater London, in a ceremony on the carriageway near Potters Bar. It became Europe's second longest orbital road upon completion, and provides the first and only full bypass of London.source
  • 1987March 31 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, conducts a 45-minute interview on Soviet television.source
  • 1995July 4 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major is re-elected as leader of the Conservative Party, ending an internal challenge to his position.source
  • 1997May 1 – Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as the Labour Party wins the 1997 United Kingdom general election and returns to government for the first time in 18 years.source

21st century

  • 2007June 27 – Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a leadership election.source
  • 2017June 8 – A snap general election is held in the United Kingdom, three years before the next was due, resulting in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, losing their majority in Parliament. The Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, makes gains for the first time since 1997. Days later, the Conservative Party, now lacking a majority, enters a confidence-and-supply deal with the Northern Ireland loyalist party DUP.source
  • 2019July 24 – Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.source
  • 2019June 3–5 – U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the U.K., meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. It is the first official state visit to the U.K. by a sitting U.S. president since 2011. Trump also attends D-Day commemorative ceremonies.source
  • 2019June 7 – British Prime Minister Theresa May resigns as leader of the Conservative Party.source
  • 2019May 24 – British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Conservative leader, effective June 7, 2019.source
  • 2020June 3 – Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK will change immigration laws to offer a pathway to UK citizenship for all Hong Kong citizens who are eligible for BN(O) status if the government of China imposes new security laws on the territory.source
  • 2022October 25 – Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the resignation of Liz Truss the previous week resulting in a 50-day tenure, making him the first person of colour to become the prime minister.source
  • 2022September 6 – Liz Truss is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after winning the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.source

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