Labour Party (UK)/Timelines


 * 1834: The Tolpuddle martyrs - 5 trade unionists are sentenced to 7 years transportation to Australia
 * 1838: The People's Charter We demand universal suffrage
 * 1871: The Paris Commune - Paris workers seize power and form the world's first socialist government
 * 1881: Democratic Federation formed
 * 1884: The Democratic Federation is renamed the Social Democratic Foundation
 * Fabian Society formed - a socialist pressure group that wanted to create a "society in accordance with the highest moral possibilities".


 * 1891: The Condition of the Working Class in England by Frederick Engels - depicting overcrowded housing, abject poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, dirt and drunkenness.
 * 1892: Keir Hardie, a Scottish trade union leader, elected Member of Parliament as "Independent Labour"
 * 1893: Independent Labour Party formed by Keir Hardie "to secure the collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.
 * 1900: Labour Representation Committee - brought socialist groups togethe for the purpose of increasing working class representation in Parliament.
 * Keir Hardy elected as the first "Labour" Member of Parliament


 * 1901: Taff Vale judgement - upheld the right of a company to sue a trade union for the recovery of losses due to a strike
 * 1906: The Labour Repesentation Committee renamed "The Labour Party"
 * 1916: Sidney Webb joined the Labour Party Executive and helped to draft its constitution
 * 1924: 1st Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
 * 1929: 2nd Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
 * 1931 Recession raises the budget deficit Macdonald's proposal unemployment benefit leads to a cabinet split.


 * 1931: National Government (coalition). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
 * 1934: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) replaced Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister
 * 1935: Clement Attlee became leader of the Labour Party
 * 1940: Wartime coalition. Neville Chamberlain (Conservative) Prime Minister
 * 1941: Winston Churchill (Conservative) became Prime Minister and Clement Attlee became Deputy Prime Minister
 * 1945: 1st and 2nd Attlee Governments. Prime Minister Clement Atlee
 * 1955 Hugh Gaitskell  elected party leader
 * 1964: 1st & 2nd Wilson Governments.
 * 1976: Harold Wilson resigned, James Callaghan becoame Prime Minister
 * 1980: Michael Foot elected party leader
 * 1983: Neil Kinnock replaced Michael Foot as party leader
 * 1992: John Smith took over from Michael Foot
 * 1994: John Smith died. Tony Blair elected party leader
 * 1997: Labour Governments. Prime Minister Tony Blair '' - see Tony Blair timeline
 * 2007: Tony Blair retired. Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister
 * 2010: Conservative Government.  Milliband elected Labour party leader.