Winston Churchill Biography

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its inception in 1901, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.

At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Source: Wikipedia

Marriages

• 1908-09-12
  Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier

Winston Churchill Timeline

• 1899-10-14
  Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
• 1899-10-30
  British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
• 1899-11-15
  Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
• 1901-02-18
  Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
• 1914-07-26
  First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
• 1914-07-28
  First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow
• 1921-02-12
  Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies
• 1938-09-21
  Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
• 1939-09-14
  First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow, Orkney
• 1939-10-30
  German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
• 1940-05-10
  Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
• 1940-05-13
  Winston Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
• 1940-05-16
  British Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
• 1940-05-22
  UK Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city
• 1940-05-31
  Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany
• 1940-06-04
  Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
• 1940-06-11
  British Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
• 1940-06-18
  Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons
• 1940-09-15
  PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group
• 1941-07-19
  British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
• 1941-08-04
  Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
• 1941-08-09
  Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for talks with FDR
• 1941-10-25
  Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
• 1941-12-14
  Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
• 1941-12-22
  Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference
• 1941-12-26
  Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
• 1941-12-30
  Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
• 1942-06-25
  British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
• 1942-08-04
  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
• 1942-08-16
  British Premier Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
• 1942-08-23
  British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
• 1943-01-13
  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
• 1943-02-16
  British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
• 1943-05-12
  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in USA
• 1944-07-21
  British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
• 1944-08-11
  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
• 1944-08-14
  British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
• 1944-09-17
  British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
• 1944-10-09
  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
• 1944-10-19
  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
• 1945-01-03
  British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
• 1945-03-03
  Winston Churchill visits Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters
• 1945-03-26
  British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
• 1945-07-26
  Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat
• 1946-03-05
  Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri) popularizes the term and draws attention to division of Europe
• 1946-05-13
  Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
• 1948-05-10
  Winston Churchill visits The Hague
• 1951-10-26
  Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
• 1952-02-26
  PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
• 1953-04-24
  Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
• 1953-05-11
  Winston Churchill criticizes US Sec of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory
• 1953-10-09
  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
• 1955-04-05
  Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
• 1963-04-09
  Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
• 1965-01-30
  State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

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