30 March 2015Retirement from House of CommonsJames Gordon Brown
Brown's thirty-two-year service in the House of Commons comes to an end.
Historical records for Great Britain in 2015, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Brown's thirty-two-year service in the House of Commons comes to an end.
Villa defeats Liverpool 2-1 to reach its first FA Cup final since 2000.
Wins a Conservative majority on a manifesto promising an EU membership referendum.
Wins a Conservative majority in the general election.
Starmer is elected Labour Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras.
Burnham wins another term as Labour Member of Parliament for Leigh.
Wins a Conservative majority on a manifesto promising an EU membership referendum.
Sets out a One Nation approach after the Conservatives secure a parliamentary majority.
Forms a Conservative majority government after the election.
The European Union Referendum Bill is introduced in Parliament.
The European Union Referendum Bill is introduced in Parliament.
Delph captains Villa in the FA Cup final against Arsenal.
Begins the legislative programme of his majority government with a new Queen's Speech agenda.
Sets out plans intended to expand access to NHS services across seven days.
Meets G7 leaders to discuss security, the global economy, Ukraine and international cooperation.
Headline Glastonbury Festival.
Coordinates the British government response after the terrorist attack at Sousse kills British holidaymakers.
Starmer joins the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee.
Sets out proposals to challenge violent and non-violent extremism and promote shared British values.
Backs the introduction of a National Living Wage as part of the government's economic programme.
Joins Rangers from Wigan Athletic and later becomes club captain.
Elizabeth Carriere becomes Governor of Montserrat
Addresses disruption and migration pressures around Calais during the summer of 2015.
Elected Leader of the Labour Party.
Burnham finishes second in the Labour leadership election won by Jeremy Corbyn.
Burnham becomes Shadow Home Secretary after the leadership election.
Starmer joins Labour's front bench as Shadow Minister for Immigration.
The rebuilt New Street station and Grand Central shopping centre open to the public.
Announces an expansion of UK resettlement for vulnerable Syrian refugees.
Denis Healey dies.
Vote Leave is launched to campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
Supports Leave campaigning before the referendum organisations are designated.
Supports Vote Leave during the referendum campaign.
Sets out four objectives for renegotiating Britain's relationship with the European Union.
Sends the European Council president Britain's formal objectives for European Union reform.
Expresses solidarity with France and reviews UK security after the Paris terrorist attacks.
Updates Parliament on the Paris attacks and discussions at the G20 summit in Turkey.
Represents the United Kingdom at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.
Helps organise Labour Leave during the referendum campaign.
Presents a new Strategic Defence and Security Review focused on terrorism, cyber threats and state-based risks.
Wins Commons backing for UK airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
The European Union Referendum Act receives royal assent.
The European Union Referendum Act receives royal assent.
Supports international efforts that culminate in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Theory of Everything.
Supports Leave.EU as a major Brexit campaign organisation.
Co-founds Leave.EU as a campaign for leaving the European Union.
George Osborne presents the 2015 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The 2015 Budget under George Osborne sets out the Government's taxation, expenditure and borrowing plans.
Stars in Everest
Performs Bowie material with Holy Holy, revisiting The Man Who Sold the World era with Woody Woodmansey.
Promotes policies intended to expand home ownership and house building during the majority government.
Efstathiou uses Planck results to refine constraints on inflation and the standard cosmological model
Efstathiou contributes to Planck cosmological analysis that tightly constrains the standard Lambda-CDM model and the density of the dark-energy component.
Burnham enters the Labour leadership contest following Ed Miliband's resignation.
Appears as FBI agent Reggie Wayne in Denis Villeneuve's crime thriller Sicario.
Stars as artist Lili Elbe in the biographical drama The Danish Girl.
The film version of The Lady in the Van is based on his experiences with a tramp called Miss Shepherd, who lived on Bennetts driveway in several dilapidated vans for more than fifteen years
The film version of The Lady in the Van is based on Alaan Bennetts experiences with a tramp called Miss Shepherd, who lived on Bennetts driveway in several dilapidated vans for more than fifteen years
Appears as the hotel manager in Yorgos Lanthimos's dark comedy The Lobster.
Directs The Martian, adapting Andy Weir's story of an astronaut stranded on Mars.
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