Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman

Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government

Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea

Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty

Winston Churchill buys Chartwell, a house in Kent that remains his home until his death

Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party

Winston Churchill gives Harold Macmillan his first ministerial appointment, in the Department of Supply

After the German invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium, Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as the British prime minister

Winston Churchill, in his first speech to the House of Commons as prime minister, offers the nation nothing but 'blood, toil, tears and sweat'

The Local Defence Volunteers are formed in Britain and are soon given, on Winston Churchill's suggestion, the name Home Guard

Churchill says of the Battle of Britain pilots that never has so much been owed by so many to so few

Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East

Roosevelt and Churchill publish a joint Atlantic Charter, foreseeing a future free from 'Nazi tyranny'

Churchill gives Harold Macmillan an unusual job, negotiating on behalf of the British government in north Africa and reporting directly to Churchill

Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca for a strategic conference

Churchill extends Harold Macmillan's responsibilities to include developments in Greece and the Balkans

Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Yalta to discuss Allied post-war plans

Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet for a summit conference in Potsdam

The British electorate dismisses Winston Churchill, giving the Labour party and Clement Attlee a landslide victory

Winston Churchill, losing the postwar general election in Britain, has to yield his seat at Potsdam in mid-conference to Clement Attlee

Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe

Appointed minister of housing in Churchill's new government, Harold Macmillan soon achieves the ambitious target of building 300,000 houses a year

Labour loses the general election and Winston Churchill returns to Downing Street as prime minister

Churchill moves Harold Macmillan to a new department, as minister of defence

A painting by Graham Sutherland, commissioned for Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, does not meet with the full approval of the sitter or his wife