Anthony Eden's premiership
1955–1957 · Event
Eden destroys himself at Suez, the moment Britain discovers it can no longer act alone.
On these timelines: UK: Prime Ministers, England, The Suez Crisis, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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- Pitt the Younger's first premiership (1783)
- David Lloyd George's premiership (1916)
- William Gladstone's first premiership (1868)
Around 1955
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Korean War (1950)