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Dissolution of Parliament

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1868–1997Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1868

Benjamin Disraeli BeaconsfieldMay 1868

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Victoria agrees to dissolve Parliament

1972

Edward Richard George Heath1972

Ulster · Government / Conservative Party Government

Dissolves the Northern Ireland Parliament & Government

1997

John Roy Major17 March 1997

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Granted the dissolution of Parliament

Names involved

Benjamin Disraeli BeaconsfieldEdward Richard George HeathJohn Roy Major

Provenance

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