January
The future of Germany is in the news

February
The Labour Party wins the UK general election with a reduced majority

March
End of rationing on the horizon

April
Petrol prices increase in the Budget

May
Plans for a European Steel and Coal Community are published

June
North Korea invades South Korea

July
Britain sends troops to Korea to serve with the United Nations

August
Recruiting campaign for the Korean War

September
Plans to nationalise the British steel industry published

October
Hugh Gaitskell replaces Stafford Cripps as Chancellor

November
China enters the Korean War

December
Scottish nationalists remove the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey

January
North Korean advance stopped by the UN

February
February 1951 was the wettest month since February 1870

March
Iran nationalises its oil industry

April
Aneurin Bevan resigns from the government over the issue of NHS charges

May
The Festival of Britain is opened

June
Civil servants Donald MacLean & Guy Burgess disappear amid rumours of spying

July
A survey shows the British housewife work on average fifteen hours a day

August
Protests in Berlin

September
King George VI has a major lung operation

October
The Conservatives, led by Winston Churchill, win the general election

November
A truce is signed between North and South Korea

December
The Korean truce holds

January
Dwight D Eisenhower declares that he will run for the American presidency

February
King George VI dies; Elizabeth II becomes queen

March
Kwame Nkrumah becomes Prime Minister of Ghana

April
A peace treaty between Japan and the USA is signed, ending the Second World War between those countries

May
The Korean War continues

June
Anne Frank's diary is published

July
Eva 'Evita' Perón, wife of Juan Perón, dies

August
Labour relations are in the news

September
Britain's economy is healthy

October
British soldiers attack the Mau Mau in Kenya

November
Dwight D Eisenhower wins the US presidential election

December
Britain prepares for Christmas

January
Dwight D Eisenhower becomes President of the USA

February
Chancellor Richard Butler prepares his budget

March
Stalin dies; Malekov is appointed First Secretary of the Soviet Union

April
Income tax is cut in the Budget

May
Edmund Hillary advances up Everest

June
Elizabeth II is crowned Queen

July
The Korean War officially ends

August
The England cricket team wins the Ashes for the first time in 20 years

September
Adenauer is re-elected as Chancellor of West Germany

October
The Free Territory of Trieste becomes part of Italy

November
Piltdown Man is revealed as a hoax

December
A conference on the future of Berlin is announced

January
The Allies fail to agree on the reunification of Germany at the Berlin summit

February
Eisenhower rebukes McCarthy's communist witch hunt

March
Fears about radiation in fish after a H-bomb is tested near Japan

April
Aneurin Bevan resigns from the shadow cabinet

May
Roger Bannister runs the four-minute mile

June
Churchill and Eisenhower meet in Washington

July
Rationing ends in Britain

August
Tension between France and Germany over the European Defence Council

September
Rolls Royce unveil a plane that can take off vertically

October
British dock workers go on strike

November
Pensions rise by £2 a week

December
Railway workers threaten to strike

January
Government announces plan for equal pay in the civil service

February
Georgi Malenkov resigns as Soviet Premier, bolstering Khrushchev's standing

March
Labour MPs decide to withdraw the whip from Aneurin Bevan

April
Churchill resigns as Prime Minister and is replaced by Anthony Eden

May
The Conservatives win the general election

June
Railway strike in Great Britain

July
A summit meeting is held in Geneva

August
China releases its American prisoners

September
Strike on Cyprus against the British Colonial government

October
Princess Margaret's wedding to Peter Townsend is called off

November
Postal and telephone charge increases in Britain are announced

December
Hugh Gaitskell takes over as leader of the Labour Party

January
Eisenhower and Eden meet in Washington

February
Illingworth looks at restrictive practices in the British economy

March
Khrushchev denounces Stalin in a speech to the Supreme Soviet

April
Khrushchev visits Britain

May
Rioting on Cyprus

June
Massacre in Poznań, Poland, after anti-Soviet protests

July
Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal

August
The United Nations tries to solve the Suez crisis

September
Egypt rejects a plan to put the Suez Canal under international management

October
British and French forces bombard Suez

November
Hungarian uprising is put down by the Red Army

December
British and French forces begin to pull out of Suez

January
Anthony Eden resigns following the Suez Crisis. He is replaced by Harold Macmillan

February
The United States pressures Israel to withdraw troops from Gaza

March
The EEC is formed

April
The Government under pressure

May
Britain is developing a hydrogen bomb

June
A report connects cancer with smoking

July
The Jodrell Bank telescope is commissioned

August
British soldiers protect the Sultan of Oman from a rebellion

September
National Guardsmen escort black children to school in Little Rock, Arkansas

October
The Soviet Union launches the first man-made satellite

November
The Soviets send a dog called Laika into space

December
American Vanguard rocket explodes on take off

January
Harold Macmillan appoints Derick Heathcoat Amory Chancellor of the Exchequer

February
Syria and Egypt unite to form the United Arab Republic (UAR)

March
The Labour Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell, calls for an end to hydrogen bomb tests

April
CND members march from Aldermaston to London

May
Riots in Algeria; Charles de Gaulle is appointed Prime Minister of France

June
Rioting on Cyprus after the peace plan is rejected

July
The Iraqi monarchy is overthrown

August
Rebel leaders on Cyprus call for a ceasefire

September
'Monty' retires from the army

October
Anger in the Soviet union after Pasternak publishes his novel Dr Zhivago

November
MPs discuss the Wolfenden Report on homosexuality

December
Illingworth looks at international problems

January
Thick smog envelopes London

February
Peace deal agreed for Cyprus

March
Harold Macmillan visits the Soviet Union

April
The Chancellor announces the budget

May
Summit meeting held in Geneva

June
The Labour Party debates defence

July
Khrushchev visits the USA

August
Eisenhower visits Britain

September
Khrushchev visits the United States of America

October
The Conservatives, led by Harold Macmillan, win the general election

November
EFTA (European Free Trade Area) is formed

December
The differing views of world leaders