Robert Walpole: Timeline

1676   Born

1721   Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain

1731   Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdom's Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in.

1742   Robert Walpole was elevated to the peerage and thus moved from the House of Commons House of Commons

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 to the House of Lords House of Lords

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, effectively ending his reign as Prime Minister Prime minister

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 of the United Kingdom United Kingdom

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 (see February 16, above).

1745   Died