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1742 Robert Walpole
was elevated to the peerage and thus moved from the House of Commons
to the House of Lords
, effectively ending his reign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(see February 16, above).
1812 Bankrupt banker assassinates British
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
in the lobby of the British House of Commons
.
1827 UK
: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the UK
following the death of Canning.
1846 Under the leadership of British
Prime Minister Robert Peel
, the British Parliament
repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.
1877 Queen Victoria
proclaimed Empress of India
by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
1900 Prime Minister Lord Salisbury of the United Kingdom
rejects U.S.
President
McKinley's offer to mediate in the Boer War
1901 The British colonies of New South Wales
, Queensland
, South Australia
, Tasmania
, Victoria
and Western Australia
federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton
becomes first Prime Minister.
1910 Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt
, assassinated.
1910 British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords
(Liberals, 272; Labour
, 42; Irish
Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
1935 November 14 In General Election
in Britain
, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party
with a large but reduced majority.
1940 Henri Petain becomes Prime Minister of France
and immediately asks Germany
for peace terms.
1943 Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City
. Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill
and Franklin D. Roosevelt
.
1944 Hideki Tojo
resigns as Prime Minister of Japan
due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1945 President of Germany Karl Dönitz
and Chancellor of Germany
Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk are arrested by British
forces at Flensburg. They would respectively be the last German Head of state
and Head of government
until 1949.
1946 Iran
:Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
1951 Winston Churchill
re-elected British Prime Minister; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden
1951 Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by the Prime Minister of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
1953 David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel
1962 In what the press dubs the "the Night of the Long Knives", United Kingdom
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
dismisses one-third of his Cabinet.
1968 Marcelo Caetano becomes prime minister of Portugal
.
1972 Gough Whitlam becomes the first Labour Party
Prime Minister of Australia
for 23 years. He is famously sworn in on the election night and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War
.
1974 The United Kingdom
general election results in an almost dead-heat. Harold Wilson
becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party (UK)
having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party (UK)
.
1987 Australian
Prime Minister Bob Hawke
's government is re-elected for a third term.
1988 In Forlě
(Italy
), the Red Brigades
kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
1988 In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan
choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto
to be Prime Minister.
1989 Polish
president Wojciech Jaruzelski
nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, the first non-communist in power in 42 years.
1990 The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état
attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister, A.N.R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
1993 Gaullists win legislative election
in France
and Édouard Balladur becomes prime minister of Fran
1993 Former prime minister of France
Pierre Bérégovoy commits suicide
.
1995 The UK
Prime Minister, John Major
, wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative Party
.
2002 The Swedish parliamentary election leaves Prime Minister Göran Persson and the Social Democrats in power.
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