George Herbert Walker Bush Biography

Birth of Charles Kingsley

Elected to the House of Representatives

Heads a diplomatic mission to Beijing

Appointed Director of the CIA

Loses the Republican nomination to Reagan, later becomes Vice President

Appointed Republican Party presidential nominee

Appointed President of the USA, 41st President

The US Navy F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean

The United States presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council to justify its shootdown of two Libyan jet fighters as self-defense, evidence the Libyan ambassador said was faked

The United States presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council to justify its shootdown of two Libyan jet fighters as self-defense, evidence the Libyan ambassador said was faked

President of elect Bush completes the selection of his Cabinet, naming retired Adm. James D. Watkins secretary of energy and former education secretary William J. Bennett drug Czar

President of elect Bush completes the selection of his Cabinet, naming retired Adm. James D. Watkins secretary of energy and former education secretary William J. Bennett drug Czar

Inaugurated President of the USA

President Bush meets the Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, after which both leaders sounded upbeat about U.Sese relations

President Bush, in his first major speech to Congress, proposes a $1.16 trillion "common sense" budget for fiscal 1990

1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber

The Act restructures thrift regulation and funds resolution of failed savings institutions.

Bush Issues a National Security Directive to resume normal relations with Iraq

Bush Issues a National Security Directive to resume normal relations with Iraq

Signs verification protocols strengthening implementation of the Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions treaties.

Signs a bilateral agreement with Mikhail Gorbachev providing for destruction and non-production of chemical weapons.

Supports an emergency Security Council response to the attack.

Sends US forces to Saudi Arabia to prevent an Iraqi invasion

Orders major US forces to deploy to Saudi Arabia.

Orders US forces to deploy to Saudi Arabia.

The deployment deters further Iraqi expansion after Kuwait's invasion.

During a speech in a special joint session of the US Congress given on 11 September 1990, US President George H.

W.

It was then that I decided to act to check that aggression.".

Addresses Congress on the international response to Iraq.

Explains coalition objectives to a joint session of Congress.

Insists Iraq must withdraw and Kuwait's government be restored.

US Defense Secretary Dick Cheney made the first of several visits to Saudi Arabia where King Fahd requested US military assistance.

Orders a major increase in US forces deployed to the Gulf.

The buildup creates an offensive capability to liberate Kuwait.

Appeals to Ukranian nationalists not to gain independence from the Soviet Union

Appeals to Ukranian nationalists not to gain independence from the Soviet Union

Appeals to Ukranian nationalists not to gain independence from the Soviet Union

United Nations Security Council Resolution 699 was passed in 1991, declaring that Iraq was responsible for all funding of UNSCOM's inspections in Iraq

United Nations Security Council Resolution 699 was passed in 1991, declaring that Iraq was responsible for all funding of UNSCOM's inspections in Iraq

Bush receives congressional authority to use force to implement United Nations resolutions.

Congress agrees the go-ahead for the war

Receives congressional authorization to use force against Iraq.

The Gulf War began with an extensive aerial bombing campaign on 16 January 1991. For forty-two consecutive days and nights, the coalition forces subjected Iraq to the most intensive air bombardment in military history. The coalition flew over 100,000 sorties, dropping 88,500 tons of bombs, and widely destroying military and civilian infrastructure

States that the campaign seeks complete Iraqi withdrawal.

Announces that coalition military operations have begun.

Announces coalition combat operations against Iraq and occupied Kuwait.

Bush invokes United Nations and congressional authority when announcing military action.

Bush authorises strikes against Iraqi command, communications and air-defence facilities around Baghdad.

Bush urges Israel not to retaliate and risk fracturing the Arab coalition.

Bush's administration states that the attacked Baghdad facility was believed to be military.

Iraq agreed to a Soviet-proposed ceasefire agreement

Bush gives Iraq a final deadline to begin an immediate and unconditional withdrawal.

Bush publishes coalition conditions that could prevent the ground campaign.

Bush requires Iraq to begin withdrawing immediately or face coalition ground attack.

Bush authorises the ground campaign after Iraq fails to accept the coalition withdrawal terms.

Ground forces begin the final campaign to liberate Kuwait.

Bush concludes that diplomatic proposals have not secured Iraq's unconditional withdrawal.

Authorizes the coalition ground offensive against Iraqi forces.

Authorizes the coalition ground offensive.

The Allied land offensive begins against Iraq

The 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions cross into Kuwait during the coalition ground assault.

Announces that Kuwait has been liberated.

Coalition forces restore control of Kuwait City to Kuwaiti authorities.

The hundred-hour ground campaign comes to an end.

Bush orders coalition forces to suspend offensive combat after one hundred hours of ground operations.

The ground campaign ends after Iraqi forces are expelled from Kuwait.

Orders coalition offensive operations suspended.

Bush suspends offensive combat exactly one hundred hours after the ground campaign begins.

Non essential US Embassy staff are withdrawn from Ethiopia

The US gives aid to Hanoi when it helps account for 2,276 missing US soldiers

The US gives aid to Hanoi when it helps account for 2,276 missing US soldiers

Bush recognises the formal ceasefire after Iraq accepts Security Council Resolution 687.

US forces move into northern Iraq to set up safe havens for Kurdish refugees

US forces move into northern Iraq to set up safe havens for Kurdish refugees

1st US aircraft since 1979 lands in Iran with blankets for Kurdish refugees

1st US aircraft since 1979 lands in Iran with blankets for Kurdish refugees

President Bush sends a personal message to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, urging a stronger effort to conclude arms control talks

President Bush lifts economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality

President Bush lifts economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality

Soviet and American negotiators meeting in Washington wrangle over a Treaty to reduce long-range nuclear missiles

President Bush tours the Souda Bay US naval base during a visit to Greece

President Bush warns Iraq it would be making "an enormous mistake" if it failed to disclose its nuclear weapons program to United Nations inspectors

President Bush warns Iraq it would be making "an enormous mistake" if it failed to disclose its nuclear weapons program to United Nations inspectors

Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction

Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction

Signs START I with Mikhail Gorbachev, requiring major reductions in strategic nuclear weapons.

Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction

Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction

The USA recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

The USA recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

Announces cuts in nuclear weapons

Announces unilateral reductions and withdrawals of numerous United States tactical nuclear weapons.

Co-sponsors the Madrid Peace Conference with the Soviet Union.

Iraq by and large refused to cooperate with UNSCOM and its inspections as mandated by UN SC Res.

The record states that 687 until June 1992, ten months after deadline, at which time the Iraqi Government submitted "full, final and complete reports" on all of its weapons of mass destruction programs.

These reports, however, were found to be incomplete and deficient, and at the same time UN inspectors were subjected to harassment and threats on the part of the Iraqi regime.

Signs the Lisbon Protocol making Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine parties to START I alongside the United States.

Iraq by and large refused to cooperate with UNSCOM and its inspections as mandated by UN SC Res.

The record states that 687 until June 1992, ten months after deadline, at which time the Iraqi Government submitted "full, final and complete reports" on all of its weapons of mass destruction programs.

These reports, however, were found to be incomplete and deficient, and at the same time UN inspectors were subjected to harassment and threats on the part of the Iraqi regime.

Signs the North American Free Trade Treaty

Signs the North American Free Trade Treaty

Signs the North American Free Trade Treaty

Signs START II with Boris Yeltsin to pursue deeper reductions in strategic nuclear arsenals.

The United States joins the opening signature conference for the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Signs the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty with Vladimir Putin to reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads.

Death of George H W Bush