Events since 1945 to 2016

By Mollie_Claire

  • End of World War 2

  • Britains coal industry is nationalised

  • India gains independance from Britain

  • Post-War immigration from the commonwealth begins

    nearly 500 Caribbean immigrants to Britain

  • NHS is established

  • Berlin Airlift begins

  • Olympic Games open at Wembley Stadium in London

  • Geneva Convention

  • Republic of Ireland comes into being

  • British troops support US forces in the Korean War

  • Conservatives under Winston churchill win general elections

  • Discovery of the structure of DNA

  • Elizabeth ll crowned Queen

  • Winston Churchill Prime minister

  • Commercial TV starts with first ITV broadcast

  • Montgomery bus boycott begins

  • Worsening Pollution prompts the passing of the clean air act

  • Britain switches on its first nuclear power station

  • Ghana becomes first british colony in africa to gain independance

  • Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb

  • Motorway system opens

  • The Pill is legalised

  • Cuban missile crisis begins

  • Start of the Feminism Movement

  • New universities open and students get state supports

  • Comprehensive education system is initiated

  • Death penalty is abolished

  • England win the football world cup

  • Abortion and homosexuality are legalised

  • First Moon landing

  • Introduction to Equal pay act

  • Decimalised currency replaces pounds, shillings and pence

  • North sea oil concessions are auctioned

  • Britain joined the European Economic Community (EEC)

    EEC is also the EU

  • Introduction for Sex Discrimination Act

  • Worlds first test-tube baby is born

  • Scotland and Wales reject Devolution

  • Margret Thatcher becomes Britains first female prime minister

  • Humber Bridge opens

    longest single-span bridge in the world

  • Economic recession leads to high employment

  • Major national industries are privatised

    Industries including: cable and wireless; the national bus company; British airways; rolls Royce; British steel; electricity-generating industry; and water companies

  • The World Wide Web is invented by Tim Berners-lee

  • Fall of the Berlin wall

  • Introduction of new local taxes including poll tax

    Sparking riots in London over poll tax

  • Margret Thatcher resigns

  • Cold War Ends

  • Channel Tunnel opens

    linking London and Paris by rail

  • First Women priests are ordained by the church of england

  • World trade organisation is formed

  • Britain hands Hong-Kong back to China

  • Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris

  • Scotland and Wales vote in favor of devolution

  • Britain decides not to join the European Single Currency

  • Foot-and-Mouth disease wreak havoc on rural Briain

  • Apple Lauches first ipod

  • Terrorist attack on America, 9/11 occurs

  • Britian joins US in an invasion of Iraq

  • Mar exploration rover launched

  • Facebook launched

  • Mars exploration rover

  • Facebook was launched

  • Ten new states join the EU

  • USB flash drivers replace floppy disks

  • Kyoto Protocol on measures to control climate change comes into force

  • Suicide bomber kill 52 people on London Transport System

    7/7

  • civil partnership give same-sex couples legal rights

  • West African black rhino declared extinct

  • Artic sea ice hits a record low

  • Apple debuts the IPhone

  • Barack Obama elected president

    First ever black president

  • Major breakthrough in cancer research

  • Death of Osama Bin Laden

  • Italian cruiseliner Costa Concordia runs aground in Italy

    Kills 32 people

  • Margret Thatcher dies

  • Ebola virus outbreak

  • Malaysia air plane goes missing

  • Paris terrorist attacks

  • Russian and French football fans clash with England fans

  • England leaves EU