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Prime Minister of Great Britain

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

10Records

1924–2005Date range

4Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1924

James Ramsey MacDonald22 January 1924

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

1929

James Ramsey MacDonald5 June 1929

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term

1945

Clement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1st26 July 1945

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

1950

Clement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1st11 January 1950

Government / Labour Party Government

Announces a general election will be held February 23rd

Clement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1st28 February 1950

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term

1976

James Callaghan5 April 1976

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain

James Callaghan10 September 1976

Government / Labour Party Government

Makes a Cabinet reshuffle

1997

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair1997

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, youngest PM since Lord Liverpool in 1812

2001

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair2001

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term

2005

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair6 June 2005

Government / Labour Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister, 3rd term, by the Queen at Buckingham Palace

Names involved

Anthony Charles Lynton BlairClement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1stJames CallaghanJames Ramsey MacDonald

Provenance

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