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1957- 1964
Mind map: 1957-1964 timeline
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1957- 1964
1957
- 1958
- January
- Resignation of Thorneycroft, Powell and Birch from exchequer
- 1959
- 1960
- January
- Macmillan makes "Wind of changes speech
- July
- Aneurin Bevan dies
- October
- Labour Conference endorses unilateral nuclear disarmament
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- July
- Edward heath's resale price maintenance act comes into force
- October
- Generl election - slender Labour victory
- July
- January
- De Gaulle vetoes Britain's attempt to join he European Community. Gaitskell unexpectedly dies
- February
- Wilson takes over
- March
- Profumo lies to commons over the affair with Christine Keeler
- April
- Maudling's tax- cutting Budget
- June
- Profumo resigns
- October
- Macmillan resigns
- 1964
- February
- National Economic Development Council set up
- July
- Macmillan "night of the long knives" - sacks a third of cabinet
- October
- Vassall spy scandal
- 1963
- July
- Britain applies to join the European Community
- September
- Large CND demonstration in Trafalgar Square
- October
- Gaitskell gets the Labour Conference to drop unilateral nuclear disarmament
- November
- Private eye is launched as satirical magazine
- 1962
- January
- April
- Heathcoat-Amory offers a giveaway Budget
- October
- General election - convincing Conservative victory
- November
- First section of M1 motorway opened by Ernest Marples
- 1960
- February
- CND holds first meeting
- November
- Vicky creates "Supermac"
- January
- January
- Macmillan becomes prime minister
- April
- Sandys' Defence White paper
- July
- Macmillan's "Never had it so good" speech at Bedford
- 1958
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- A level British History (Conservative, Macmillan 1957-64) Mind Map on 1957- 1964, created by Marcus Danvers on 14/01/2014.
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