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

2Records
1962–1985Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1962

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st13 July 1962

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Purges a Cabinet of 21 of 7 its ministers after a poor by-election resul at Orpington

1985

Margaret Hilda Thatcher12 September 1985

Government / Conservative Party Government

Britain orders 25 Russian spies to leave the country

Names involved

Margaret Hilda ThatcherMaurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st

Provenance

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