Election
Elected First Minister of the Northern Ireland assembly
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
David Trimble Biography and Timeline
Follow David Trimble through 5 dated historical records for Great Britain.
David Trimble, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1998–2005Years on this page
1998
Accords of Good Friday
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to John Hume and David Trimble, leaders of the largest Catholic and Protestant political parties, an incentive for all sides to ensure that this time the peace would last
Nobel Prize
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace
2005
Constitution of Great Britain
In the 2005 UK general election the DUP win almost twice the UUP vote share and take nine seats to the UUPs one (successfully unseating then UUP leader David Trimble) and becoming the fourth largest party in the British House of Commons
Election
In the 2005 UK general election the DUP win almost twice the UUP vote share and take nine seats to the UUPs one (successfully unseating then UUP leader David Trimble) and becoming the fourth largest party in the British House of Commons
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.