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