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Birth
Born into Briatin's most prominent noble families,as the son of Lord Randolph Churchill.
(Lord Randolph Churchill is depicted here) -
Irish Stay
(actual date not known)
Moves to Dublin due to his father being posted as an official there. He will move back to London three years later. -
Hate
(actual date not known)
Attends school for the first tive, at St George's School, Ascot. The strictness of the headmaster there explains young Winston's detestation at the school. -
Harrow
Attends Harrow School, probably Britain's most prestigious pre--tertiary educational establishment. -
National service
Graduates from mulitary training with flying colours,coming eighth out of 150 in the class. -
Death of a hero
Winston Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, passes away,at the age of just 45. It has been suggested that syphilis was to blame. -
Adventure
Is sent to Cuba to report on the war for independence there; he brings home with him a lifelong affinity with Cuban cigars,which would last seven decades. -
Indian Service
(date is completely confirmed)
2nd Lt. Churchill arrives in Bombay with his regiment , but on landing dislocates his shoulder. He will go on to fight in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, just after obtaining three months' leave the following May. -
River War
(Only the year is proven; the month and date are not known)
Churchill, now a civilian, publishes his first book,'The River War'', about his experiences in British intervention in the Sudan. -
The Fight in Oldham
Churchill sets his sights on Oldham , to win the by-election for its parliamentary seats. He lost. (The constituency had TWO seats; he and another Conservative, James Mawdsley failed to obtain them.) -
Danger!
As a war correspondent reporting on the Boer War in South Africa, he was doing so from an armoured train which,unsurprisingly, the Boers derailed. (The Boers were the enemies of the British.) Churchill was taken prisoner in what used to be a high school.(It still exists.) But he escaped after four weeks! -
New Beginnings
Churchill won his seat in Oldham,the one which he had lost a year ago. -
Crossing the Floor
Despite being a Conservative,his support for free trade,which his party did not share at the time,meant thet he crossed the floor of the House of Commons to defect to the Liberal side,and did not return until after two decades. -
Naval power
Churchill was appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty. This put him in charge of what was probably the world's strongest navy. But the blunders of the Gallipoli landings in 1915 basically forced his resignation. -
Work with the War
Churchill was appointed Minister of Munitions in the Lloyd George Coalition. This followed several months' service in the trenches. In this new post, he was able to ensure weapons went to war in the required numbers, but nothing was exceptional. -
Appendicitis
Churchill fell ill with appendicitis while campaigning for the retention of his place as the Liberal MP of Dundee. He was left, as he put it, 'without an office, without a seat, without a party and without an appendix'. -
Emerald Isle (revisited)
Churchill, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, had to appease those who wanted to free Ireland from Britain; it was getting violent. He supported it, and the majority of the island was given independence. -
Tainted gold
(Date unknown)
As Chancellor of the Exchequer-and someone who failed miserably at maths as a boy- a disastrous start to his tenure was the disastrous return of the Gold Standard, a source of deflation and unemployment. -
A Tory Again
Churchill eventually returned to poiltics, though not as a Liberal anymore; instead, he campaigned to be a Unionist for Westminster. The group ensorsing him described themselves as 'Constitutionalist', and Churchill thus did so. But not after the election. He instead returned to the Conservative Party, and was made Chancellor of the Exchequer. -
Isolation
The Conservatives lost the 1929 elextion,and Churchill lost his job as Chancellor of the Exchequer; it was a job he hated,though.
He would be out of politics for a decade. -
Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears
Churchill proved to be a capable man of war,especially if it was a major one. He was reinstated as First Lord of the Admiralty on the outbreak of war, and PM Chamberlain's resignation due to foreign-policy failings led to King George VI asking him (Churchill) to take up the post instead. -
Betrayed!
Labour had formed a war coalition with the Conservatives. But this was not to last. Tory practise in this election wa to rely on Churchill's popularity and little else. So Churchill was left as the Leader of the Opposition. -
....and back!
The 1951 election, in which Labour hoped to increase its slim majority of five seats (even King George VI expressed concern), instead brought Churchill's Conservatives back to power. Back as PM , his second term was nothing spectactular, but for being awarded the Nobel Prize for his oratory and biographies. -
A Loss for the World
Churchill, following many strokes, passed away in 1965 at the ripe old age of 91; his state funeral remains one of very few in Britain not to be of a monarch. Such was his reputation, 112 countries sent representatives, at a time when about 125 countries existed.
