1874
Winston Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, at the Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire to Jeanette Jerome and Lord Randolph Churchill.

1893
Winston Churchill succeeds in the entrance examination in the third attempt and joins the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

1895
Churchill was commissioned as an officer in the Fourth Hussars.

1896-99
Winston Churchill saw action on the northwest Frontier of India and in Sudan.

1899
Winston Churchill served as a War Correspondent in South Africa for The Morning Post. He was captured by the forces, but later he escaped from a Boer prison camp.

October 1900
Churchill was elected as the Conservative MP for Oldham.

May 1904
Churchill joined the Liberal Party.

December 1905
Winston was appointed the Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies.

1908
Churchill was elected as the President of the Board of Trade. He was defeated in the Manchester Northwest by-election He was elected as liberal MP for Dundee.

April 1908
Churchill married Clementine Hozier.

February 1910
Was appointed Home Secretary.

October 1911
Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

May 1915
The Dardanelles Navy was attacked and due to this Churchill was transferred from Admiralty, to Chancellorship of Duchy of Lanchashire.

November 1915
Churchill resigned and joined the army on the Western Front.

July 1917
Churchill was appointed as the Minister of Munitions.

January 1919
Churchill was appointed the Secretary of State.

1921
Churchill was appointed the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

December 1923
He fails to be elected as Liberal in West Leicester.

March 1924
Churchill failed to win Abbey Division of Westminster as Independent Anti- socialist.

October 1924
He was elected for Epping as Constitutionalist, with the help of Conservative support.

1924
He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.

April 1925
Churchill returned Britain to the Gold Standard.

May 1926
The General strike took place.

May 1929
The Conservative government led by Baldwin was defeated in the general elections.

1930
Churchill publishes his autobiography My Early Life. Churchill resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in India.

1933
The autobiography of Marlborough : His Life and Times was published.

1935
Churchill joined the Air Defense Research Committee.

December 1936
He supported King Edward VIII in the Abdication Crisis.

1937-38
He became more open in criticism of the policy of appeasement.

September 1939
Churchill was appointed the First Lord of the Admiralty.

May 10, 1940
Churchill was appointed as Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence.

May 8, 1945
Europe won the war as Germany had surrendered unconditionally.

May 23, 1945
The caretaker government was formed in Britain.

July 26, 1945
Churchill resigned as the Prime Minister but remained MP for Woodford.

March 1946
Churchill delivered the ‘iron curtain’ speech at Fulton, Missouri.

1948
The first six volumes of The Gathering Storm, book penned by Churchill was published.

February 1950
The Labor won the general elections.

1951
The Conservatives won the general elections.

October 1951
Churchill was appointed as the Prime Minister and later as Minister of Defence.

October 1953
Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

April 5, 1955
Churchill resigned as Prime Minister.

1956
The first volume of A History of the English-speaking Peoples, a book written by Winston Churchill was published.

July 1964
Churchill retired from the House of Commons.

January 24, 1965
Churchill died in London.

January 30, 1965
He was buried in Blandon Churchyard, near Blenheim, Oxfordshire.