Walpole becomes first Prime Minister
1721 · Event
Sir Robert Walpole is widely regarded as Britain's first prime minister (formally First Lord of the Treasury).
On these timelines: UK: Prime Ministers, Master, England, United Kingdom (combined)
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- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Margaret Thatcher's premiership (1979)
- Clement Attlee's premiership (1945)
- Pitt the Younger's first premiership (1783)
- David Lloyd George's premiership (1916)
- William Gladstone's first premiership (1868)
- Tony Blair's premiership (1997)
Around 1721
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)