January
Anti-Semitism in Germany

February
Macmillan makes 'Wind of change' speech in Capetown

March
56 people killed in the Sharpville massacre in South Africa

April
Charles de Gaulle visits Britain

May
East-West summit breaks up in controversy after Khrushchev accuses the Americans of spying

June
Congo becomes independent

July
Earl Home is appointed Home Secretary

August
The Soviet Union sends two dogs, Beika and Streika, into orbit. They return alive three days later

September
Talks at the United Nations about Congo

October
The Labour Party Conference votes against nuclear weapons

November
John F Kennedy wins the US Presidential election

December
The United Nations fails to stop the war in Congo

January
A report states that women make up a third of the British workforce

February
The Soviet Union launches a satellite into space

March
The USA increases military aid to Laos

April
Adolf Eichmann on trial for his role in the Holocaust

May
County Council elections are held in England

June
Britain's economy in trouble

July
Britain applies to join the EEC

August
The Berlin Wall is constructed

September
UN forces attack Katanga, a province of Congo

October
The Soviet Union tests a nuclear bomb

November
The Daily Mail praises Dr Richard Beeching, the Chairman of British Railways

December
The Home Secretary, Richard Butler, and Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskell, debate immigration

January
European Community leaders agree a Common Agricultural Policy

February
Algeria peace talks successful but violence continues

March
The Liberals win the Orpington by-election

April
The film 'Cleopatra' is released

May
Famine in China

June
Brazil win the World Cup

July
Reginald Maudling is appointed Chancellor

August
The USA launches the space probe, Mariner II

September
Railway workers' unions clash with Dr Beeching, Chairman of British Railways

October
Cuban missile crisis

November
India yields to China in a war over the border between the two countries

December
Britain buys Polaris nuclear weapons

January
De Gaulle closes the door on British membership of the EEC

February
Harold Wilson elected leader of the Labour Party after Hugh Gaitskell's death

March
Residents of Tristan da Cunha return to their island, eighteen months after a volcanic eruption there

April
The Chancellor, Reginald Maudling, announces the Budget

May
Civil rights protests in Rhodesia and Alabama

June
John Profumo resigns from the government amid sex-scandal allegations

July
A treaty is signed between the United States and the Soviet Union banning tests of some nuclear weapons

August
Police search for clues after the Great Train Robbery

September
Denning report into the Profumo scandal is published

October
Macmillan resigns as Prime Minister; Alec Douglas Home takes over

November
Alec Douglas Home is elected to the Commons

December
Political emergency on Cyprus

January
The Sultan of Zanzibar is overthrown

February
The Winter Olymics are held at Innsbruck

March
Rumours of a general election

April
Khrushchev accuses China of dividing the workers of the world

May
The Conservatives launch their election campaign

June
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment for treason

July
A summit of the Commonwealth is held to discuss Southern Rhodesia

August
North Vietnam attacks United States ships

September
A general election is called

October
The Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, wins the general election

November
Lyndon Johnson is re-elected as president of the USA

December
Illingworth looks at the relationship between Labour and the trade unions

January
Harold Wilson faces political problems

February
Harold Wilson's head goes missing from Madame Tussauds

March
National Guard called onto the streets of US cities because of civil rights unrest

April
The Vietnam conflict escalates

May
MPs vote to nationalise the steel industry

June
An American astronaut walks in space

July
Ted Heath is elected as leader of the Conservatives

August
Race riots in Los Angeles

September
The popularity of the Labour Party increases

October
The Tryweryn Reservoir opens

November
White minority government in Rhodesia declares independence

December
Christmas truce in Vietnam

January
Lal Shastri, Prime Minister of India, dies

February
Sanctions against Rhodesia continue

March
Ted Heath criticises Harold Wilson's handling of the economy

April
The Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, wins the general election

May
Jim Callaghan announces the Budget

June
Labour party members attack the United States' policy in Vietnam

July
Harold Wilson meets with Spanish diplomats to discuss Gibraltar

August
George Brown is appointed Foreign Secretary

September
Pro-apartheid South African Prime Minister Verwoerd is assassinated

October
144 adults and children are killed by a landslip at Aberfan

November
It was rumored that Kosygin, the Soviet Union's Prime Minister, would visit Britain

December
Sanctions against Rhodesia continue

January
Britain discusses joining the European Community

February
Soviet Prime Minister Kysogyn visits Britain

March
The Torry Canyon oil tanker runs aground off the coast of Cornwall

April
A space ship lands on the moon

May
De Gaulle rules out British membership of the EEC

June
Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria

July
Race riots in American cities

August
Illingworth looks at the political world

September
The Queen launches the cruise liner, the QE II

October
The Conservative Party conference is held in Brighton

November
Economic crisis in Britain

December
Blizzards hit Britain

January
Vietcong troops attack the US Embassy in Saigon

February
The government legislates against immigration from Africa

March
Students at the London School of Economics protest for increased grants

April
Enoch Powell delivers his 'Rivers of Blood' speech

May
Strikes, demonstrations and riots in France

June
Women working at Ford's Halewood factory go on strike

July
Enoch Powell makes another speech on race relations

August
The first National Parks are created

September
The Labour Party conference is held in Blackpool

October
An anti-Vietnam War demonstration is held in London

November
Richard Nixon is elected President of the USA

December
Illingworth looks at the West German economy

January
Asians are expelled from Uganda

February
The Red Army occupies Czechoslovakia

March
Concorde makes its first flight

April
Lecturers at the London School of Economics go on strike

May
The Chelsea Flower Show

June
The occupation of Czechoslovakia continues

July
Illingworth looks at society

August
Violence in Derry

September
The Labour Party conference is held

October
British women campaign for equality

November
Apollo 12 returns to earth after Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon

December
Illingworth looks at British political issues