Historical place archive

Chequers in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Chequers in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

6 records6 event labels4 people1921–2018

Historical events in Chequers

1921

8 January 1921
Occupation
David Lloyd George · Coalition Government

Becomes the 1st Prime Minister to reside in Chequers

1944

6 February 1944
Chequers Frontier Talks
Winston Churchill · World War, 2nd

Churchill presses Mikolajczyk at Chequers to recognize that the Riga frontier must change and that the Curzon Line should guide negotiations.

6 February 1944
Population Transfer Proposal
Anthony Eden · World War, 2nd

Eden explains Soviet assurances that Poles east of the proposed frontier and Ukrainians west of it could transfer across a Curzon-based settlement.

1956

14 October 1956
Chequers Meeting
Anthony Eden · Suez War

Meets senior ministers as British policy moves closer to coordinated action with France and Israel

2018

6 July 2018
Brexit
Theresa Mary May · Conservative Party Government

Cabinet agrees the Chequers plan for Brexit.

6 July 2018
Chequers Plan
Theresa Mary May · Conservative Party Government

Cabinet agrees the Chequers plan for the future UK-EU relationship.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Chequers. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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