Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. (Intro from Wikipedia)
November 11, 1874 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is born January 1(?), 1877 - Dublin, Ireland - Winston travels to Dublin, where his grandfather was appointed Viceroy of Ireland February 15(?), 1880 - London - Churchill family returns to London December 25, 1881 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Spends Christmas at Blenheim Palace January 4, 1882 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Writes his first letter to his mother April(?) 1(?), 1882 - Isle of Wight - Winston visits the Isle of Wight in the Easter November 2(?), 1882 - near Ascot - Goes to St George Boarding School December 25, 1882 - London - Spends Christmas in London September 1(?), 1884 - Brighton - Winston is transfered to a boarding school near the Sea, for health reasons December 25, 1884 - London - Spends Christmas in London January 20, 1885 - Brighton - Winston returns to Brighton March 14, 1886 - Brighton - Winston almost dies with pneumonia - gets better on 17th June 18, 1886 - London - Convinces his mother to let him go to London for the Queen's Jubilee March 15, 1888 - Harrow - Passes his examinations to enter Harrow School April 1(?), 1888 - Harrow - Winston enters Harrow School September 30(?), 1888 - Harrow - Joins the Army class at Harrow January 1, 1891 - Banstead - Spends New year at Banstead January(?) 1(?), 1892 - Versailles, France - Spends a month in Versailles to improve his french July 1(?), 1892 - Sandhurst - Winston fails the Sandhurst entrance examination November 29, 1892 - Sandhurst - Winston improves, but fails again January 10, 1893 - Bournemouth - Winston Fractures his thigh during a holiday chase with his brother August 3, 1893 - London - As Winston prepares to leave England, receives news that he passed the exams in Sandhurst August 7(?), 1893 - Luzern, Switzerland - Writes to his father giving accounts of the Holiday August 14, 1893 - Milan, Italy - Receives a letter from his father concerning Sandhurst September 1(?), 1893 - Sandhurst - begins his Sandhurst Military academy course December 25, 1893 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Spends Christmas at Blenheim Palace August 1(?), 1894 - Visits Waterloo, Antwerp and Zermatt, in Switzerland January 24, 1895 - London - Lord Randolph, Winston's father, dies February 20, 1895 - Aldershot - Churchill enters the Cavalry, being gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Hussars =(START) July 23, 1895 - Aldershot - Churchill meets the visiting Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary October 30, 1895 - Liverpool - Churchill departs for Cuba aboard the Cunard Royal Mail Steamship "Etruria" November 9, 1895 - New York City - Churchill spends one week at New york. Visits West Point November 18, 1895 - Tampa, Florida - Takes a ship to Havana November 19, 1895 - Havana, Cuba - Arrives in Havana November 21, 1895 - Havana - Churchill and Barnes leave Havana by train to join the spanish troops November 23, 1895 - Central Cuba December 2, 1895 - Central Cuba - Churchill experiences being attacked and in combat with rebels (1st and 2/12) December 10, 1895 - Tampa - Churchill leaves Cuba for the Unites States and home December 27, 1895 - Liverpool | London - The "RMS Etruria" arrives in Liverpool. Train to London September 11, 1896 - Southampton - Churchill departs for India with the 4th Hussars aboard the "SS Britannia" October 1, 1896 - Bombay, India - Churchill arrives in Bombay October 4, 1896 - Poona, India - At a camp in Poona October 10, 1896 - Bangalore, India - Churchill stays in Bangalore for 6 months
On Horseback, in 4th Hussars' uniform
November 1(?), 1896 - Secunderabad - Churchull meets Pamela Plowden, daughter of a british resident in Hyderabad December 1(?), 1896 - Calcutta - Travels to Calcutta to play Polo February 1(?), 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill is made Brigade Mayor(???) April 18(?), 1897 - With intention of being a war correspondent in Crete (after Turkey's declaration of War against Greece on April 5th), Churchill departs to Italy May 8, 1897 - As the turks defeat the greeks. Churchill decides to continue to London May 20(?), 1897 - London - Churchill arrives in London June 26, 1897 - Bath - Makes his first political speech in a Primrose League meeting July 1(?), 1897 - London - After hearing about the Pathan tribesman revolt, Takes the train in London for Brindisi August 24, 1897 - Bangalore, India - Writes his mother from this date August 29, 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill departs to the frontier, where the revolt was happening September 4(?), 1897 - Malakand - Reaches Malakand, on the northwest frontier in the "first week of September" September 16, 1897 - Markhanai - Sees action in the frontier village of Markhanai September 23, 1897 - Zagai - After Domadola, Sees action again at Zagai September 30, 1897 - Agrah - Attached to the 31st Punjabi Regiment - Action in Agrah October 2, 1897 - Inayat Kila - Writes his mother from General Blood's HQ October 12, 1897 - Inayat Kila - Writes his mother telling her he had participated in 15 fights October 18(?), 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill is ordered back to Bangalore December 31, 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill sends his mother the manuscript of his book "The Story of the Malakand Field Force" January 18(?), 1898 - Calcutta - Goes to Calcutta, where he stays with the Viceroy March 1(?), 1898 - Peshawar - Attached to the Tirah Expeditionary Force March 14, 1898 - "The Story of the Malakand Field Force" is published in London June 1(?), 1898 - Bombay - Sails from Mombay to London, via Egypt June 15(?), 1898 - Egypt - Churchill leaves his servant and campaigning kit in Egypt, hoping to return July 2, 1898 - London - Churchill reaches London July 14, 1898 - Bradford - Speeches at Bradford July 22(?), 1898 - Nº10 Downing Street, London - Lord Salisbury, the prime-minister, meets Churchill after reading his book July 27, 1898 - London - Leaves London in the morning July 30, 1898 - Marseille, France - Boards ship to Egypt August 2, 1898 - Cairo, Egypt - Arrives in Egypt. Goes at once to the 21st Lancers Barracks August 5, 1898 - Luxor - Writes his mother from this date August 14, 1898 - Atbara - The 21st lancers reach Atbara and camp August 24, 1898 - 60 miles from Omdurman, Sudan August 26, 1898 - near Omdurman - Request of transfer to the egyptian cavalry denied September 1, 1898 - Omdurman, Sudan - Opposite side of the Nile to Khartoum. Battle of Omdurman on the next day September 3, 1898 - Khartoum, Sudan - Churchill disagrees with Lord Kitchener about the atrocities commited against wounded and prisoners October 1(?), 1898 - Dover - Speech October 25, 1898 - Rotherhithe, London - Speech November 1(?), 1898 - An article in the "World" states that he was leaving the army to become secretary to the under-secretary of State for War, George Wyndham November 30, 1898 - London - Leaves London for India December 2, 1898 - Brindisi, Italy - After crossing europe by train, Churchill Boards the ship "Osiris" December 29, 1898 - Bangalore - Writes his mother from this date February 1(?), 1899 - Bangalore - Churchill receives a letter from Robert Ascroft, asking him to stand with him at the next General Election March 16(?), 1899 - Bombay - Churchill leaves India for the last time March 25(?), 1899 - Cairo, Egypt - Spends 2 weeks in Cairo, working on another book and interviewing people April 15(?), 1899 - London - Churchill arrives in London July 6, 1899 - Churchill is defeated in the elections September 18, 1899 - Churchill receives a telegram from the "Daily Mail" asking him to go as their correspondent to South África October 6, 1899 - Drafts a formal application to join a british Yeomanry Regiment October 12, 1899 - Oldham - As the Boer war starts, Churchill goes to Oldham for a last public meeting October 14, 1899 - Southampton - Reaches Southampton by train. Boards the "Dunottar Castle" to South África October 31, 1899 - Cape Town, South Africa - The "Dunottar Castle" reaches Cape town (with general Buller on board) November 1, 1899 - Beaufort West - Trying to reach Ladysmith, under threat of capture by the Boers November 4, 1899 - Durban - Reaches Durban by midnight. Very seasick during a small trip November 5, 1899 - Pietermaritzburg - Churchill, always resourceful, manages to hire a train to proceed north November 6, 1899 - In London, "River War" is published November 9, 1899 - Outskirts of Colenso - Riding with the british troops November 15, 1899 - Estcourt - Churchill participates in a scouting expedition to pick up information. Boers fire and he helps as trucks jam. Churchill is made Prisioner of War in Pretoria November 18, 1899 - Pretoria - Writes his mother from the POW camp December 10, 1899 - Pretoria - Churchill asks Haldane if he can escape to Mozambique with him and Brockie December 13(?), 1899 - Pretoria - Churchill escapes alone, without compass and dutch-speaking help December 14(?), 1899 - Witbank, 60 miles East of Pretoria - Churchill awakes in the morning and jumps train. Awaits for next night to board another. Starving, he finds a british mine where fellow brittons help hidding him December 19, 1899 - Witbank - The english manage to put Churchill on a train to Transvaal, with food and drink December 21, 1899 - Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), Mozambique - Churchill arrives in Lourenço Marques. Goes at once to the british consulate. After cleaning, bath and telegrams, Churchill decides to board a boat to S.A immediatly December 23, 1899 - Durban - The small boat reaches Durban December 26, 1899 - Pietermaritzburg - Churchill return to HQ, very close to the spot where he was captured January 2, 1900 - Churchill accepts a commission in the South African Light Horse January 9, 1900 - Tugela River - Buller crosses the Tugela January 23, 1900 - Spioenkop - Churchill witnesses and reports about the battle of Spioenkop January 28, 1900 - Lady Randolph and his Churchill's brother Jack, arrive in Durban aboard the hospital ship "Maine" February 5, 1900 - Tugela River - Churchill writes his mother at Durban February 25, 1900 - Tugela River(?) - Churchill is nearly killed by shrapnel February 28, 1900 - Ladysmith - Lord Dundonald invites Churchill to ride with him and enter the city April 4(?), 1900 - Durban - Arrives in Durban from Ladysmith April 16(?), 1900 - East London - Sails for East London April 18(?), 1900 - Cape Town - Takes the train to Cape Town April 20(?), 1900 - Bloemfontein - Travels inland by Train to the front April 22, 1900 - Dewetsdorp - Joins McNeill's scouts to cut off a boer commando from the crest of a hill May 15, 1900 - (Riding to Pretoria) - As Churchill rides with Hamilton towards Pretoria, "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria" is published June 1(?), 1900 - South of Johannesburg June 5, 1900 - Pretoria - Churchill enters in the defeated Boer Capital June 11, 1900 - Diamond Hill - Violent battle with the boers June 16, 1900 - Pretoria - Returns to Pretoria, as 3000 of his books are published in the USA June 20, 1900 - Kopjes Station (100 miles South of Johannesburg) - Train to Cape Town is sabotaged. Churchill helps organizing trip back to Kopjes Station July 7, 1900 - Cape Town - Churchill leaves South Africa for the last time July 10, 1900 - South Atlantic Ocean - As Churchill is on his way to england "Vanity Fair" magazine writes about him July 20, 1900 - Southampton - Churchill arrives in England July 25, 1900 - Oldham - He is adopted as the prospective candidate for the General Election August 1(?), 1900 - Oldham - Speaches at Oldham and "a dozen other places" September 19, 1900 - Oldham - Churchill sets up his campaign Headquarters October 1, 1900 - Oldham - Poll day in Oldham. Churchill is elected to the Parlament October 12, 1900 - Churchill publishes "Ian Hamilton's March" bases on the 13 telegraphic reports he sent to the "Morning Post" from South África October 25, 1900 - Starts another job as lecturer, travelling as far north as Dundee, Dublin and Belfast November 30, 1900 - Cheltenham - On his 26th birthday, Churchill lectures at Cheltenham December 1, 1900 - Liverpool - Boards the Steamship "Lucania" to the USA December 8, 1900 - New York City - Churchill arrives in New York December 10, 1900 - Albany - Meets Governor Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President December 11, 1900 - Philadelphia - Lecture at Philadelphia December 12, 1900 - New York City - Churchill lectures at the Waldorf-Astoria. Meets Mark Twain December 17, 1900 - Boston - Takes the night train to Boston January 22, 1901 - Winnipeg, Canada - Churchill receives the news of Queen Victoria's death February 2, 1901 - New York City - Sails for England aboard the "Etruria" February 10, 1901 - Liverpool - Churchill arrives in Britain February 14, 1901 - London - Takes his seat in the Parlament February 28, 1901 - London - Maiden speech in the House of Commons
Maiden speech day
April 23, 1901 - Liverpool - Speech to the Liverpool Conservative Association October 4, 1901 - Saddleworth, Yorkshire - Appeals for a "Supreme Effort" to end the war in South África January 7, 1902 - Blackpool - Speaks about poverty in Britain to an audience of conservative MPs April 14, 1902 - House of Commons, London - Budget Debate September 1(?), 1902 - Balmoral, Scotland - Invited by King Edward VII to Balmoral October 6, 1902 - Oldham - Visit to Oldham November 20, 1902 - Southampton(?) - Leaves England for Egypt December 12, 1902 - Aswan, Egypt - Witnesses the opening of the Aswan Dam February 24, 1903 - House of Commons, London - Speaks against increase in military spending November 11, 1903 - Birmingham - Speaker at a trade meeting in Birmingham December 21, 1903 - Halifax - Speech at Halifax March 2, 1904 - House of Commons - Speech to the new session of Parlament May 13, 1904 - Manchester - Speaks to the Liberal Federation May 31, 1904 - House of Commons - Sits on the liberal Opposition benches in the House of Commons October 18, 1904 - Carnarvon, Wales November 10, 1904 - Edinburgh March 1, 1905 - House of Commons - Criticises the New Secretary of State for War October 1(?), 1905 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Finishes the Biography of his father October 13, 1905 - Manchester October 31, 1905 - Dorset(?) - Dinner with King Edward VII January 2, 1906 - "Lord Randolph Churchill" is published January 4, 1906 - Manchester - In Manchester to launch his first election campaign January 13, 1906 - Manchester - Polling day - Churchill is elected for Manchester as a Junior Minister July 31, 1906 - House of Commons - Churchill announces the establishment of responsible government for the Transvaal August 5(?), 1906 - Deauville, Normandy - France - On prolonged Holiday August 15(?), 1906 - Paris - A few days in Paris to enjoy the nightlife and buy some expensive french books August 25(?), 1906 - Eichhorn, Moravia - Guest of Baron de Forest September 1(?), 1906 - Eggishorn, Switzerland September 5(?), 1906 - Berlin September 8, 1906 - Breslau - In Silesia as guest of the Kaiser, to watch military manoeuvers September 14, 1906 - Vienna - Writes to Elgin from Vienna September 15(?), 1906 - Venice - Arrives in Venice by train (middle of September) October 11, 1906 - Glasgow - Speech in Glasgow November 28, 1906 - London - Meets Mahātmā Gandhi in London December 3, 1906 - London - Churchill informs House of Commons that Secretary of State for Colonies declined to approve Transvaal ordinance December 17, 1906 - House of Commons - Churchill speaks about Orange Free State being granted a Government in the same lines as Transvaal February 17, 1907 - London - Churchill informs House of Commons that Natal Government has been refused leave to introduce legislation excluding Asiatics from trading licenses March 1(?), 1907 - Biarritz, France - Holiday in Biarritz, in one of the houses of Baron de Forest April 15, 1907 - London - Colonial Prime ministers meet in London May 8, 1907 - London - Photo taken as Under-secretary of State for the Colonies August 28, 1907 - London - Departs for his big African travels September 15(?), 1907 - Angouleme, France - Churchill attends french army manoeuvres September 18(?), 1907 - Italy September 22(?), 1907 - Eichhorn, Moravia - Shooting partridge and hare September 28(?), 1907 - Italy October(?) 1(?), 1907 - Syracuse, Sicily October 2, 1907 - Valletta, Malta - Reaches Malta by ship October 9, 1907 - Cyprus - Arrives in Cyprus in an admiralty cruise, HMS Venus October 11(?), 1907 - Suez Canal October 14(?), 1907 - Red Sea October 20, 1907 - Aden - Departs on the HMS Venus to Berbera October 27, 1907 - Berbera, Somaliland - Writes a memorandum regarding financial and military situation in Somaliland October 31(?), 1907 - Mombasa, Kenya - Arrival in Mombasa November 3, 1907 - Embo - Reaches Embo, with snow-clad Mount Kenya in sight November 4, 1907 - Thika (NE of Nairobi) - Spends the day hunting lions, but without success November 5, 1907 - Nairobi, Kenya - Dining with the Governor - Churchill tells his host to advance inland further than Embo November 17(?), 1907 - Jinja - Reaches Jinja, where the Nile leaves Lake Victoria November 18, 1907 - Port Alice (Entebbe), Uganda - Churchill reaches the British administration base in Entebbe, where he is received by the colonial administrator Sir Hesketh Bell December 23, 1907 - Khartoum, Sudan - After a 10-day steamer trip, Churchill reaches Khartoum January 3, 1908 - Cairo, Egypt - Relaxing in Cairo January 17, 1908 - London - Churchill returns to London January 22, 1908 - Manchester - Speech at Manchester March 1(?), 1908 - London - Meets Clementine Hozier again at a dinner party April 9, 1908 - London - Churchill accepts the Presidency of the Board of Trade April 24, 1908 - Manchester - North-West Manchester by-election is held. Churchill looses in a close contest May 9, 1908 - Dundee - Churchill stands for Paliament from Dundee July 6, 1908 - St.Jame's Palace - Levee at St. Jame's Palace (Privy Councillor's uniform) September 12, 1908 - St.Margaret's, Westminster - Churchill marries Clementine Houzier February 5, 1909 - Newcastle - Churchill speaks abour social change July 11, 1909 - Clementine gives birth to a daughter, Diana September 6, 1909 - Leicester - Churchill speaks at Leicester against the intention of the House of Lords to vote against the budget September 10, 1909 - Metz - Visits the franco-prussian war battlefield of Gravelotte September 12, 1909 - Strasbourg - Writes to Clementine from Strasbourg September 13, 1909 - Frankfurt - Arrives at Frankfurt after a long drive September 14, 1909 - Würzburg - Spends the day at the german military manoeuvers September 15, 1909 - Würzburg - First conversations with the Kaiser September 17, 1909 - Würzburg - German army manoeuvers September 18, 1909 - Blenheim - Churchill visits the site of his ancestor's victory over the french in 1704 October 16, 1909 - Dundee, Scotland - Speaks to his consituents November 3, 1909 - London - Writes that there was "practically no checks upon german naval expansion" January 9, 1910 - Leven, Scotland - Speech in Leven February 15, 1910 - Election results announced: Churchill holds his seat at Dundee July 20, 1910 - House of Commons, London - Presents his reforms to the commons - one of his intentions was to abolish automatic imprisonment for non-payment of fines November 18, 1910 - London - Parliament is dissolved and General Elections called November 22, 1910 - London - Suffragettes and their male supporters demand votes for Women November 25, 1910 - House of Commons, London - Defends his actions in withholding army troops against riots in Wales November 26, 1910 - Bradford - After a speach, Churchill is assaulted by a supporter of the suffragettes November 30, 1910 - Sheffield - Election meeting May 28, 1911 - Churchill's second child, Randolph, is born May 30, 1911 - House of Commons, London - Churchill attacks the judges whom he believed had been unfair in Trade Union cases June 22, 1911 - London - Coronation of King George V - Churchill and Clementine ride in the procession June 29, 1911 - London - Procession through London with the new King October 24, 1911 - London - Parliament is reassembled - Churchill is appointed "First Lord of the Admiralty"
First Lord of the Admiralty
November 17, 1911 - Devonport - Churchill launches the battleship "Centurion" December 9, 1911 - Portsmouth - Inspects the Royal Naval Barracks and submarine school February 14, 1912 - London - Churchill circulates the new german Navy law to the cabinet March 18, 1912 - House of Commons, London - Churchill announces that for each german battleship, Britain will build two May 9, 1912 - Weymouth - In Weymouth for the King's inspection of the fleet May 15, 1912 - London - Speech in London about the horrors of the war July 22, 1912 - House of Commons, London - Churchill explains the German Navy Law and Britain's response April 6, 1913 - Portsmouth - Writes Clementine from Portsmouth June 28, 1913 - London - At London Hendon Aerodrome for a flying meeting October 1(?), 1913 - Sheerness - Churchill takes the command of a flying boat for the 1st time during instruction February 23, 1914 - Portsmouth - Churchill pilots a flying boat March 14, 1914 - Bradford - Speech in Bradford March 17, 1914 - House of Commons, London - "Longest and perhaps also the most weighty and eloquent speech to which the House of Commons have listened during the present generation" (Daily Telegraph) June 1(?), 1914 - Plymouth - Spends the first week of June in Plymouth, then Cherbourg June 17, 1914 - House of Commons, London - Asks the House of Commons to authorize the purchase of 51% share in the profits of all oil produced by the anglo-Persian Oil company August 14, 1914 - London - Gets the approval to set up a naval blockade of the german north sea ports August 24, 1914 - Admiralty, London - Kirchener informs Churchill that the germans took the fortress of Namur, thought impregnable August 26, 1914 - London - Obtains approval to send the Marine Brigade to Oostende September 3, 1914 - London - Kitchener asks Churchill to take over the responsability for aerial defence of Britain September 10, 1914 - Dunkirk - Churchill goes to france in secret, to inspect fortifications, air bases and armour September 21, 1914 - Liverpool - All-party recruiting rally September 22, 1914 - Dunkirk - Churchill is at Dunkirk as 3 cruisers are sunk by Weddigen's U-9 October 2, 1914 - London - Departs for France again October 3, 1914 - Antwerp - Talks with the belgian government, about to flee October 5, 1914 - Antwerp - Churchill offers himself to resign as First Lord and undertake command of the forces in Antwerp October 7, 1914 - Dover - Returns to England, via Oostende. Third Child, Sarah, is born October 8, 1914 - London(?) - Churchill authorises Spencer Grey to bomb Cologne with 4 airplanes and 16 bombs October 17, 1914 - London(?) - Churchill orders a naval bombardment of the german-held coast November 2, 1914 - London(?) - Orders the bombardment of forts at the Dardanelles January 7, 1915 - London(?) - At the War Counsil, Churchill unveils his plans against Borkum Island January 10, 1915 - Walmer Castle, Kent Coast - Guest of a liberal peer, Lord Beauchamp January 13, 1915 - London(?) - Churchill explains to the War Counsil the political consequences of a victory in the Dardanelles January 26, 1915 - London(?) - Churchull secures the French Government's agreement to participate in the Dardanelles Bombardment February 16, 1915 - London(?) - Emergency meeting at the War Council - Greece didn't allow deployment of british troops March 10, 1915 - London - War Council - optimism is such that the members discuss territorial aquisitions in Dardanelles May 6, 1915 - Calais(?) - Churchill arrives in France to negociate Italy's entry the war on the side of the Entente May 9, 1915 - Aubers Ridge (wounded at Merville convent) - Churchill spends the day at the battle zone May 10, 1915 - London - Returns to London May 18, 1915 - London - "The Times" criticizes Churchill for "his disquieting personal adventures on the Continent" May 21, 1915 - London - Appeals to Asquith to let him stay at the Admiralty May 23, 1915 - London - After Asquith's refusal, Churchill leaves the Admiralty June 5, 1915 - Dundee - Speeks with his constituents June 18, 1915 - Hoe Farm - Spending Sunday June 19, 1915 - London - At Downing Street to say goodbye to Asquith, Kitchener and Grey (He was about to be sent to the Dardanelles) July 1(?), 1915 - London - Moves close to the House of Lords. Request to go to Calais for a inter-ministerial meeting is denied August 20, 1915 - London - Close to disaster on the Dardanelles, Churchill recommends use of Gas November 18, 1915 - London - Churchill departs to France in uniform of a Major in the Queen's own Oxfordshire Hussars November 19, 1915 - La Gorgue - Visits his Division's HQ at La Gorgue November 20, 1915 - North of Neuve Chapelle - Joins the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards December 1, 1915 - St. Orner - Returns to French's headquarters December 5, 1915 - near Arras - Visits the french front line December 7, 1915 - La Panne (BEL) - visits the point where the trenches reach the coast December 9, 1915 - St. Orner - Appointed commander of the 56th Brigade with the rank of Brigadier-General December 18, 1915 - St. Orner - For Political reasons, Asquith takes his rank and command of the brigade December 28, 1915 - Neuve Chapelle - Observing another point of the front December 29, 1915 - Vimy Ridge - Observing another point of the front January 1, 1916 - Merris - Appointed commander of the 6th battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (9th division) and dines with officers January 4, 1916 - St. Orner - Formally appointed to his new duties as a Lieutenant-Colonel January 5, 1916 - Moolenacker - Moves to Moolenacker, where the battalion was January 23, 1916 - Hazebrouck - Last day in Moolenacker - dinner with officers in Hazebrouck January 25, 1916 - La Creche - The Battalion arrives to La Creche after 2 days march January 26, 1916 - Ploegsteert - Churchill arrives to his new HQ, in a hospice inside the village January 31, 1916 - St. Orner - Meets Lloyd George, Bonar Law and F.E.Smith - Agreement that Asquith had to go February 10, 1916 - Soyer Farm - Watches Ploegsteert being bombarded by the germans March 2, 1916 - Boulogne - Churchill hurries to Boulogne, where a destroyer would take him to Dover March 3, 1916 - London - Back in London for 7-days leave. Starts working on a speech March 7, 1916 - London - Speech to rouse MPs to a sense of impending danger March 13, 1916 - Dover - Departs to the front March 14, 1916 - Ploegsteert - Arrives to Ploegsteert, via Boulogne May 6, 1916 - Armentieres - Churchill gives his officers a farewell lunch May 7, 1916 - London - Returns to London September 28, 1916 - London - Appears before the Dardanelles Commission, submitting documents and arguments to defend his actions December 25, 1916 - Blenheim - Christmas and New Year with family at Blenheim May 26, 1917 - Boulogne - Crosses to France May 27, 1917 - Paris (?) June 2, 1917 - St. Omer - Arrives at the Front July 18, 1917 - London - Appointed Minister of Munitions July 22, 1917 - Lullenden - Meeting with Maurice Hankey August 15, 1917 - London - Presents his Munitions of War Bill to the Commons September 12, 1917 - Calais - In France for his first munitions visit September 13, 1917 - St. Orner - Visit to the front September 16, 1917 - Arras - Presides over a Munitions conference at Arras September 17, 1917 - Paris - Reaches Paris. Meets Louis Loucheur, french munitions minister September 18, 1917 - Dover - Reaches Dover at the end of the day, via Amiens November 18, 1917 - Paris - Back in Paris to co-ordinate italian munitions needs with the french December 4, 1917 - Paris(?) - Departs to England January 19, 1918 - London - Sends Lloyd George an appeal that the army was brought to "full strenght" February 18, 1918 - Calais(?) - Crosses to France February 21, 1918 - Vimy - Visiting the trenches February 23, 1918 - Ploegsteert - Churchill visits his former trenches February 26, 1918 - Paris - Arrives in Paris March 5, 1918 - London - Back in London March 18, 1918 - St. Orner - Crosses to France again March 19, 1918 - Montreuil | Nurlu - At the british tank headquarters. At the 9th division HQ March 21, 1918 - Nurlu - German Offensive March 22, 1918 - St. Orner - Gas Conference March 23, 1918 - London - Leaves for London, as Nurlu is overrun by the germans March 28, 1918 - Folkestone March 29, 1918 - Boulogne - Arrives in Boulogne by destroyer March 30, 1918 - Beauvais - Meeting with Clemenceau and Foch April 3, 1918 - Boulogne April 4, 1918 - London - Back in London April 27, 1918 - Calais (?) - Crosses back to France May 18, 1918 - Le Bourget - Churchill institutes the first regular cross-channel air service. Makes first flight June 6, 1918 - Paris - Letter to Clementine June 8, 1918 - Compiegne - Churchill visits the french front line north of Compiegne June 9, 1918 - Paris - Conference in Paris. German long-range shells fall close July 25, 1918 - London - Meeting with Bonar Law. Proposes to withdraw striker workers' exemption from military servisse August 8, 1918 - Hesdin - Churchill takes a plane to Hesdin August 9, 1918 - Flixecourt - Churchill visits General Rawlinson at his Headquarters August 13, 1918 - Paris - Presides over the inter-allied munitions council August 16, 1918 - Paris - Churchill and Loucheur agree to provide tank engines and guns to the american 3rd army August 19, 1918 - Fnivent(?) - At the Front August 25, 1918 - Lullenden - Takes an airplane to Kenley airfield, then proceeds to Lullenden to be with Family September 4, 1918 - London - War Cabinet sends a telegram to the Soviet government threatening reprisals against Trotsky, Lenin and other leaders if the lives of british subjects were not safeguarded September 7, 1918 - Margaret's Bay, near Dover - Seaside excursion with wife and children. Departs to France at dusk September 8, 1918 - Montreuil - At Haig's Headquarters September 9, 1918 - Drocourt, East of Vimy - Visiting newly captured german positions September 12, 1918 - Paris - Letter to Clementine September 17, 1918 - London - Return to England September 27, 1918 - Paris - Back in Paris, while the Bulgarian Army surrenders unconditionally October 7, 1918 - Glasgow - Speaks to munitions workers October 17, 1918 - Verchocq - As british forces enter Lille, Churchill is again at Verchocq October 25, 1918 - Lille Area(?) - Churchill visits the newly-liberated áreas October 26, 1918 - Le Gateau - Visits the battlefield of Le Gateau October 27, 1918 - Lille - overnight stay October 28, 1918 - Lille - Present at the saluting stand at a march-past of British Troops October 29, 1918 - Desselghem | Bruges - Under bombardment at Desselghem. Reaches Bruges for the night October 30, 1918 - Verchocq - In Verchocq to take the plane to England October 31, 1918 - London - Back in London November 6, 1918 - London - Lunch with Lloyd George November 10, 1918 - London - Churchill is invite to discuss the Allied conditions for Armistice with Germany November 15, 1918 - London - Birth of Marigold Frances (Churchill's fourth child) November 26, 1918 - Dundee - Churchill makes a speech to his constituents, warning of the dangers of Bolshevism January 9, 1919 - London - Churchill is appointed Secretary of State for War and Air January 12, 1919 - London - Churchill announces his new demobilization scheme February 12, 1919 - Paris - leaves London for Paris, as the Cabinet's emissary to ask President Wilson and Clemenceau what policy the Paris Peace Conference powers wished to pursue with regard to Russia February 18, 1919 - London - Meeting with Lloyd George April 9, 1919 - London - Churchill presses the Government to help put Germany back on its feet, fearful of Communism in eastern europeu July 18, 1919 - Croydon - Churchill and is flight instructor crash, but survive with minor injuries August 16, 1919 - London - Leaves England with Clementine for a five-day visit to Cologne, and to the british army in the Rhine December 31, 1919 - London - Churchill orders the evacuation of the british forces at Batum, on the Black Sea January 25, 1920 - London - Churchill publishes an article in the "Illustrated Sunday Herald" about Lenin's "diabolical purpose" August 4, 1920 - London - As bolcheviks advance to a 100 miles of Warsaw - British Ultimatum - withraw or the british fleet would depart for the Baltic August 13, 1920 - Rugby - Playing Polo September 1, 1920 - Mimizan, France - Churchill leaves London with Clementine for Mimizan September 13, 1920 - London - Returns for 6 days in London September 22, 1920 - Amalfi, Italy - Departs London for Italy, to paint October(?), 1(?), 1920 - Cassis, South of France - Leaves Italy and travels to Cassis, in France, to paint October 11, 1920 - London - Returns to London October 16, 1920 - Dundee - Speech to his constituents denouncing bolsheviks and Sinn Fein in equal measure November 25, 1920 - Westminster Abbey - With Lloyd George at a memorial service for the 6 officers murdered in Dublin December 31, 1920 - Lympne - Guest at Philip Sasson's House January 7, 1921 - Lympne - Churchill accepts to succeed Milner as Colonial Secretary, and take charge of the new Middle East Department February 6, 1921 - Chequers - Guest at Lloyd George's country house March 2, 1921 - London - Leaves London for Marseille March 3, 1921 - Marseille - Takes the ship for Egypt March 9, 1921 - Alexandria - Arrival in Egypt March 10(?), 1921 - Aboukir Bay - Visits the scene of Nelson's 1798 victory March 11, 1921 - Cairo - Arrives in Cairo by train. Conference starts the next day March 20, 1921 - Pyramids, Egypt - In the Pyramids with T.E.Lawrence March 23, 1921 - Cairo - Departs to Jerusalém March 24, 1921 - Gaza - Cheered by the vast arab crowd March 25, 1921 - Jerusalem - Arrives to Jerusalem March 27, 1921 - Mount Scopus, Jerusalem - Attends a service of dedication for the 2000 british soldiers buried in the military cemetery March 31, 1921 - Alexandria - Churchill arrives in time to catch an italian ship to Genoa April 6(?), 1921 - Genoa - Arrives in Europe April 7(?), 1921 - Cap d'Ail, France - Staying in South France for some days April 25(?), 1921 - London - returns to London - probable date, after stay at Cap d'Ail in France June 9, 1921 - London - Cabinet meeting - Lloyd George suggests transfer of Palestine and Iraq mandates to the US July 2, 1921 - Bladon Churchyard - Lady Randolph's funeral August 24, 1921 - London - Churchill's 2-year old Daughter Marigold dies September 19, 1921 - Dunrobin, Scotland - Letter to Clementine October 11, 1921 - London - At Downing Street, in negotiations with the Sinn Fein November 29, 1921 - London - In Downing Street when the Irish Treaty is handed to Sinn Fein delegates January 9, 1922 - London - Meeting of the Committee on Defence Estimates. Other meetings on 10th, 12th and 23th January 27, 1922 - Lymne - Spending weekend February 10, 1922 - London - In Downing Street September 16, 1922 - London - Churchill and Lloyd George drafted a Press communique about the urgent need to defend the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus against a 'violent and hostile Turkish aggression' November 10, 1922 - London - Leaves London for Dundee November 12, 1922 - Dundee - In Dundee for the General Election December 3, 1923 - London - Speaks at 3 large election meetings May 7, 1924 - Liverpool - Addresses 5000 conservatives at the Conservative Meeting August 31, 1924 - Churt - Meeting with Lloyd George at his house October 29, 1924 - London(?) - Wins a seat for the Conservatives in Parlament by a majority of more than 9000 votes November 5, 1924 - London - Accepts office as Chancellor of the Exchequer January 6, 1925 - Paris - Churchill crosses to Paris, where during a week of negotiations, secures a settlement of the tangle of international war debts
January 29, 1925 – London – Explanation for his
gabinet
March 24, 1925 – London - Receives a delegation of Old
age pensioners
April 28, 1925 – London - Churchill introduces his
first budget
March 20, 1926 – Chartwell - Working on plans for his
second budget
April 27, 1926 – London - Introduces his second Budget
August 26, 1926 – London - In Cabinet, speaks
approvingly of the miners' desire for a national mininum wage
January 4, 1927 – London - Churchill departs from
Britain
January 5(?), 1927 – Genoa
January 7(?), 1927 – Malta
January 10(?), 1927 – Rome - Meeting with Mussolini
January 22, 1927 – Eze, south of France - Letter to
Baldwin
January 26, 1927 – Paris - Lunch with Loucheur and
several other french politicians, including Vincent Auriol
April 11, 1927 – London - Introduces his third Budget
October 1(?), 1927 – Venice, Italy - Joins Clementine
in Venice
December 17, 1927 – London - Churchill's scheme is
ready for circulation to the Cabinet. Copies to Chamberlain and Baldwin
January 9, 1928 – Northern France - With his son,
hunting wild boar
January 20, 1928 – London - Presents his derating
scheme to the Cabinet
April 24, 1928 – London - Delivers his fourth Budget
September 30(?), 1928 – Balmoral, Scotland - Churchill
is invited by the King to Balmoral for 4 days' grouse and stag shooting. He
meets the two-and-half-year-old Princess Elizabeth
November 30, 1928 – Chartwell - Spends Birthday in
Chartwell
February 7, 1929 – London - Emergency Cabinet meeting
- according to reports, the germans were building a better battle-cruiser than
those Britain had
April 15, 1929 – London - Churchill delivers his fifth
Budget
May 6, 1929 – Edinburgh | Glasgow - Speeches in
Edinburgh and Glasgow
May 30, 1929 - Conservative Defeat at the Polls
June 10(?), 1929 – London - Starts working on his
4-volume biography of the Duke of Marlborough
August 3, 1929 – Southampton - Churchill departs
England with son Randolph on the "Empress of Australia"
August 9, 1929 – Quebec, Canada - Arrival in Quebec
August 12, 1929 – Montreal – Speech in Montreal
August 13, 1929 – Ottawa – Speech in Ottawa
August 16, 1929 – Toronto – Speech in Toronto
August 17, 1929 – Niagara Falls
August 18, 1929 – Winnipeg
August 21, 1929 – Regina
August 22, 1929 – Saskatoon
August 23, 1929 – Edmonton
August 25, 1929 – Calgary – Visits the oilfields
August 27, 1929 – Banff, Canada - Letter to Clementine
September 6, 1929 – Seattle
September 9, 1929 – San Francisco
September 16, 1929 – Vancouver – Speeches in Vancouver
September 17, 1929 – Los Angeles
September 20, 1929 – Hollywood - Dinner with Charlie
Chaplin. Promises to write the film script of "the young Napoleon" if
Chaplin would play in it
September 26, 1929 – Catalina, NW of Tucson, Arizona
September 27, 1929 – Yosemite Valley
September 29, 1929 – Grand Canyon, Arizona - The
Churchills visit the Grand Canyon
October 5, 1929 – Chicago
October 6, 1929 – New York - Travels in Bernard
Baruch's railway car to New York
October 10, 1929 – Philadelphia
October 29, 1929 – Bethlehem(?) | New York - Churchill
tours the giant plant of Bethlehem Steel. Departs to England
November 5, 1929 – London - Arrival in London
October 30, 1930 – London - Churchill publishes his
autobiography "My Early life"
December 12, 1930 – London - Churchill speaks at the
first public meeting of the Indian Empire Society, set up to combat Dominion
status
January 26, 1931 – London - Churchill speaks in the
Indian debate of 26th against the conservatives for the 1st time
March 18, 1931 – Albert Hall, London - Churchill
speaks about the politics of negotiations with Gandhi and Nehru - "a crazy
dream with a terrible awakening"
August 7, 1931 – Biarritz - Makes his final
corrections to "The world in Crisis: The eastern front"
August 16, 1931 – Avignon - Breaks off his holidays
and heads to London
August 23, 1931 – Juan-les-pins - Back in France for
painting
September 1(?), 1931 – London - Returns to London
September 19, 1931 - Chartwell - Weekend with Charlie Chaplin at Chartwell
November 2, 1931 – London - "The world in Crisis:
The eastern front" is published
November 5, 1931 – London - MacDonald announces his
new Government. Churchill is not a part of it
December 3, 1931 – London - Leaves England with
Clementine and Diana for a longplanned visit to the United States. He was
determined to recoup his losses in the Wall Street crash by lecturing, and had
contracted to give forty lectures for a guaranteed minimum fee of£10,000. In
addition the Daily Mail was paying him £8,000 for a series of articles on life,
travel and politics in the United States
December 11, 1931 – New York - Arrival in New York
December 12, 1931 – Worcester, Massachussets - Lecture.
Churchill is hit by a car and goes to Hospital
December 28, 1931 – Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York - Telegraphs
a full account of the accident to the "Daily Mail"
January 12, 1932 – Bahamas - Letter from Clementine to
Randolph, explaining the severe pains Churchill was feeling
January 25, 1932 – New York - Back in New York by sea
January 28, 1932 – Brooklyn, New York – Lecture
February 8, 1932 – New York - Meeting of bankers and
industrialists
February 21, 1932 - Churchill finishes a sequence of
lectures in 19 american cities
March 11, 1932 – New York - Churchill departs for
Britain
March 17, 1932 – Paddington Station - Eight of
Churchill's friends welcome him back
April 30, 1932 – London - Speaks to the Commons during
the debate on Neville Chamberlain's first budget
May 8, 1932 – London - First broadcast to the United
States
July 1(?), 1932 – Chartwell - During July and August,
works on the Marlborough Biography
August 27, 1932 – London(?) | Brussels - Departs for
Belgium, Holland and Germany. Churchill and Lindemann are joined by
LtCol.Ridley Pakenham-Walsh
August 30(?), 1932 – Munich - Churchill spends 3 days
at Munich
September 4(?), 1932 – Blenheim - Visiting the site of
his ancestor's battle win
September 11(?), 1932 – Salzburg - Churchill spens 2
weeks at a sanatorium, with paratyphoid fever
September 25, 1932 – Chartwell - Returns to Chartwell
September 27, 1932 – Chartwell - Churchill collapses
with a severe haemorrahage from a paratyphoid ulcer. He is taken to a London
nursing house
October 30(?), 1932 – London - Completes the first
volume of Marlborough's biography
November 23, 1932 – London - Speech to MPs - if
Britain forced France to disarm, Germany would take advantage of her own
numerical superiority to seek revenge for the defeat of 1918
November 30, 1932 – Chartwell - Lindemann arrives to
pay Churchill a visit
February 17, 1933 – Oxford - Speech in Oxford
April 7, 1933 – London - Churchill warns the
Government of the dangers involved in a militarized Germany
August 12, 1933 – London - Speach to his constituents:
"There is grave reason to believe that Germany is arming herself or
seeking to arm herself, contrary to the solemn treaties extracted from her in
her hour of defeat
October 6, 1933 – Birmingham - First Volume of "Marlborough:
His life and Times" is published. Conservative Party Conference
November 7, 1933 – London - Speech to the Commons: The
great dominant fact is that Germany has already begun to rearm
November 30, 1933 – Chartwell - Anniversary in
Chartwell
January 16, 1934 – London - Broadcast by Churchill,
praising the Government and Pres.Roosevelt
February 7, 1934 – London - Tells the Commons: 'I
cannot conceive how, in the present state of Europe and our position in Europe,
we can delay in establishing the principle of having an air force at least as
strong as any power that can get at us,'
March 21, 1934 – London - Churchill advocates the
creation of a "Ministry of Defence" to coordinate the army, navy and
Air Force
July 30, 1934 – London - Speach to the Commons: at the
present time we are the fifth or sixth air Power in the world'. At the existing
rate of building, Britain would be 'worse off in 1939 relatively than we are
now - and it is relativity that counts
August 1(?), 1934 – near Cannes - Spends 3 weeks at
Maxine Elliott's Chateau de l'Horizon
August 28, 1934 – Cannes - Leaves Cannes by car,
heading to Grenoble
September 25, 1934 – Chartwell - Departs for the
Mediterranean with Clementine aboard Lord Moyne's Yacht "Rosaura"
November 16, 1934 – London - Churchill broadcasts
about Germany: The Nazis, he said, were seeking 'the submission of races by
terrorising and torturing their civil population'
November 28, 1934 – London - Speech about rearmament
December 7(?), 1934 – Beirut, Lebanon - Arrival in
Beirut
December 8(?), 1934 – Petra, Jordania - Stays
overnight
December 9(?), 1934 – Cairo - Arrival in Cairo by
plane. Stays 2 days painting near the Pyramids
December 12(?), 1934 – Alexandria - Departs to Naples
December 15(?), 1934 – Naples - Arrival in Naples
December 17(?), 1934 – Paris - Arrival in Paris, by
train
December 18(?), 1934 – Croydon - Arrival in Britain,
by plane
April 7, 1935 – Chartwell - Ralph Wigram, head of the
central department at the Foreign Office, brings information showing that the
German aircraft factories 'are already practically organised on an emergency
war-time footing'
May 31, 1935 – London - Churchill draws attention of
the Commons of the situation in Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, which are
admiring Hitler
July 25, 1935 – London - Churchill accepts becoming a
member of the Air Defence Research sub-Committee. There he learns of the
success, on 24th, of a series of experiments for locating enemy aircraft by
radio-location (radar)
September 1(?), 1935 – near Cannes - Painting at
Maxine Elliott's Chateau
September 30(?), 1935 – Chartwell - Returns to
Chartwell
October 4, 1935 – Bournemouth - Conservative Party
Conference - Churchill urges the conversion of industry for defence purposes
December 6(?), 1935 – London - Churchill, again, is
not chosen for the new Government
December 10, 1935 – London | Paris - Departs for Paris
with Clementine
December 11(?), 1935 – Barcelona - Arrival in
Barcelona by train
December 12(?), 1935 – Majorca, Spain - Arrival in
Majorca by boat
December 20, 1935 – Tangiers - Reaches Tangiers
December 30, 1935 – Marrakech - Spends a few hours
with Lloyd George
January 8, 1936 – Marrakech – Letter to Clementine
January 26, 1936 – London – Returns to London
March 10, 1936 – London - Speaks to the Commons - Industry
should start preparing for war
March 12, 1936 – London - Churchill urges a
coordinated plan under the League of Nations to help France challenge the
german action in the Rhineland
March 15, 1936 – Chartwell - Churchill receives a copy
of the secret final dispatch of Sir Horace Rumbold, the British Ambassador to
Berlin at the time Hitler had come to power. It
warned of the intensity of Hitler's territorial
ambitions.
March 26, 1936 – London - Churchill asks the Commons:
"Will Austria be next?"
April 6, 1936 – London - Speaks to the Commons -
geo-strategical options of a newly militarized germany
April 19, 1936 – Chartwell - In a lunch with Hankey,
Churchill stresses the need of a munitions/armaments minister
July 28, 1936 – London(?) - Discrete meeting with
Chamberlain, Amery and Baldwin to discuss Defence
December 4, 1936 - Churchill visits the new King
Edward VIII to try to convince him not to abdicate the throne to marry Wallis
Simpson, an american woman about to divorce her second husband
December 25, 1936 – Chartwell - Christmas and New
Year's Eve in Chartwell
January 4, 1937 – Uckfield - Churchill attends the
funeral of Ralph Wigram, a Foreign Office friend
March 4, 1937 – London - Defence Debate
March 29, 1937 – Cap Martin, France - Churchill
arrives in Cap Martin to rest for a week, paint and gamble
May 31, 1937 – London - Caxton Hall meeting - Eulogy
for Austen Chamberlain
July 9, 1937 – Biggin Hill - Churchill visits a Royal
Air Force station to watch an interception exercise
September 17, 1937 – Chartwell - Churchill appeals to
Hitler in a newspaper article to abandon the persecution of jews
January 2, 1938 – London - Churchill leaves England
for another holiday at Maxine Elliot's Chateau de l'Horizon
March 14, 1938 – London - Debate in the Commons about
the vote in Austria
March 25, 1938 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris and
meets french leaders, stressing the need for an alliance
August 19, 1938 – Chartwell - Churchill receives Ewald
von Kleist, a german officer part of an anti-nazi group
September 2, 1938 – Chartwell - Soviet Ambassador,
Ivan Maisky, visits Churchill
September 7, 1938 – Downing Street, London - Churchill
unsucessfully presses Prime Minister Chamberlain to demand an ultimatum to
Hitler if he sets foot on Czechoslovakia
September 11, 1938 – Downing Street, London - Churchill
unsucessfully presses again Prime Minister Chamberlain to demand an ultimatum
to Hitler if he sets foot on Czechoslovakia
September 26, 1938 – Downing Street, London - Churchill
unsucessfully presses again Prime Minister Chamberlain to demand an ultimatum
to Hitler if he sets foot on Czechoslovakia
October 5, 1938 – London - Very dark speech by
Churchill about the fate of Czechoslovakia
November 17, 1938 – London - Speech to the Commons one
week after the "Kristallnacht"
January 7, 1939 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris -
Lunch with Reynaud. Sees former prime-minister Leon Blum and takes the train to
Southern France
January 26(?), 1939 – London - Back in England
April 7, 1939 – Chartwell - Churchill receives the
news of the Italian invasion of Albania
April 8, 1939 – Downing Street, London - Churchill
urges Chamberlain to occupy the greek island of Corfu to deter the italians
June 22, 1939 - Daily Telegraph article - The Germans
are intensifying their demands on Poland and Danzig
August 8, 1939 - Radio broadcast to the United States
August 10, 1939 – Biggin Hill - Visit to the Royal Air
Force station to watch fighter exercises
August 14, 1939 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris. Visit
to the Maginot Line
August 17, 1939 – Dreux, France - Painting at the
Chateau St Georges Motel
August 23, 1939 – London - Returns to London - Fleet
is ordered to its war stations
September 1, 1939 – London - War Cabinet meeting with
Chamberlain at evening, after news of Poland
September 3, 1939 – London - Chamberlain offers the
post of First Lord of the Admiralty to Churchill - he accepts
September 4, 1939 – London - Churchill starts
proposing military actions at the War Cabinet
September 6, 1939 – London - Churchill is appointed to
the War Cabinet Committee to determine the size of Britain's land forces and
the rate at which their equipment should be completed September 15, 1939 - Loch Ewe, Scotland -HMS Hood arrives at Loch Ewe for recreation time. The ship is visited by Winston Churchill
September 16, 1939 – Scapa Flow - Churchill arrives in
Scapa Flow by train for a visit, during the night
September 26, 1939 – London - Speech to the Commons -
short survey of the war at sea (resembling to all eyes, the leader they were
looking for)
October 1, 1939 – London - First wartime radio
broadcast
October 4, 1939 – St.John’s Smith Square, London - Attends
the Wedding of his son Randolph with 19-year old Pamela Digby
October 8, 1939 – London - Proposes the creation of a
"Home Guard" of half a million men over 40 years old
October 14, 1939 – London - Churchill receives the
news of the sinking of the "Royal Oak" and cries
October 31, 1939 – Greenock, Scotland | Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands -HMS Hood arrives at Greenock and is visited by Winston Churchill. Later in the day, the british Prime-Minister visits Scapa Flow
with instructions for improvements
November 2, 1939 – Paris - Crosses to France by
destroyer, to offer the french navy a new submarine-detection device
November 7, 1939 – London - Speech to the Commons -
the loss of the "Royal Oak" and sinking of british ships
December 17, 1939 – London - Churchill broadcasts news
from Uruguay, where the pocket cruiser "Graf Spee" blew up
January 6, 1940 – Dover - Churchill departs to France
in the destroyer "Codrington"
January 7, 1940 – La Ferte, near Rheims - Visit to the
HQ of the british advanced air striking force
January 8, 1940 – Arras - Lunch with Lord Gort and
visit to various military units
January 9, 1940 – London - Back in London
January 12, 1940 – London - The War Cabinet decides
against attacking german iron-ore traffic from Narvik
February 5, 1940 – Paris - Supreme War Council, with
Lord Halifax, Daladier, Cadogan, Chamberlain and Kingsley Wood March 8, 1940 - Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands -HMS Hood is visited again by Winston Churchill April 12, 1940 - London - Churchill urges that "the most intense efforts shoube be concentrated upon Hood, as we may need all our strenght to meet an italian threat or attack" (HMS Hood docked for repairs on April 4th) April 13, 1940 - London - Churchill explodes with rage when informed that HMS Hood's planed 35-day refit would take 11 weeks
May 10, 1940 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill
is asked by King George VI to form a Government - Prime-Minister!
May 13, 1940 – Admiralty House, London - Churchill
summons his ministers - Objective: Victory at any cost
May 16, 1940 – Downing Street, London - Churchill
receives news that the germans crossed the Maginot line
May 22, 1940 – Paris | London - In France to persuade
the french to link up with the isolated british force. Returns on the same day
to London
May 31, 1940 – Paris - Supreme War Council, with
Attlee, Reynaud and General Dill
June 1, 1940 – London - Back in London
June 4, 1940 – London - Famous speech to the Commons,
worth "1,000 guns & the speeches of 1,000 years"
June 10, 1940 - Paris | Tours - Meeting with french Under-Secretary of State Charles de Gaulle
June 11, 1940 – Chateau de Muguet, River Loire –
France - Meeting with the French Cabinet in disarray
June 12, 1940 – London - Flies back to Britain
June 13, 1940 – Tours, France -Churchill departs to France from Hendon, during storm and thunderstorms, for a conference with Charles de Gaulle
June 15, 1940 – London - Telegram to Roosevelt, urging
the US to enter the war to save France
August 16, 1940 – Uxbridge - Churchill follows the
Battle of England from the operations room of 11 Group, Fighter command
August 28, 1940 – Dover | Ramsgate - Inspection of
Harbour defences
September 16, 1940 – Board of Trade building, London -
Churchill moves to a fortified house in the Board of Trade building
September 24, 1940 - London - Churchill writes to portuguese prime-minister Salazar to congratulate him for his policy of keeping Portugal out of the war, avowing that "as so often before during the many centuries of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, British and Portuguese interests are identical on this vital question."
September 25, 1940 – London - Journey down the Thames
River to inspect the damage done to the docks
October 9, 1940 – London - Churchill accepts the
Leadership of the Conservative Party
November 14, 1940 – Westminster Abbey, London - Churchill
is on of the pall-bearers at Neville Chamberlain's funeral
January 10, 1941 – London - Churchill welcomes
Roosevelt's emissary, Harry Hopkins
January 17, 1941 – Glasgow - Travels with Hopkins to
Scotland
January 18(?), 1941 – Dover - Visit to Dover to show
Hopkins the Cliffs across the Channel
March 7, 1941 – London - War Cabinet Meeting - it is
decided to move 60,000 troops from Egypt to Greece
March 8, 1941 - Chequers, Ellesborough - Charles de Gaulle stays two days at Chequers with Winston Churchill
April 12, 1941 – Bristol - Visit to Bristol for an
honorary degree ceremony, after a german air raid
April 23, 1941 – London - Churchill receives a letter
from 15-year old Princess Elizabeth
May 2, 1941 – Plymouth - Visit to the bombed areas of
Plymouth
May 24, 1941 – Chequers, Ellesborough - Churchill receives
news of the sinking of "HMS Hood"
May 27, 1941 – London - Churchill receives news of the
sinking of the "Bismarck"
June 6, 1941 – Southern England - Watches the first
Flying Fortress arrive to England from the United States
July 7, 1941 – London - Telegram to Stalin
August 3, 1941 – Thurso, Scotland - Churchill boards
the "Prince of Wales"
August 10, 1941 – Placentia Bay, Newfoundland - Aboard
the "Prince of Wales" with Roosevelt
September 25, 1941 – Manston Aerodrome - Visit to 615
squadron. Tea with pilots
December 12, 1941 – River Clyde, Scotland - Churchill
departs from London to Scotland. Boards the "Duke of York" to the
United States
December 22, 1941 – Hampton Roads, Virginia - Churchill
arrives in the United States. Flies to the White House
December 26, 1941 – Washington D.C. - Churchill
addresses the US Congress
December 30, 1941 – Ottawa, Canada - Churchill addresses the Canadian Parliament. After addressing the parliamentarians, Churchill attends a dinner party given by Prime-Minister Mackenzie King at Laurier House. After dinner, Air Vice-Marshal Billy Bishop, 72-victories ace in World War 1, takes him to his house for drinks and to swap war stories
January 1, 1942 – Washington D.C. - Churchill agrees
to a declaration prepared by Roosevelt to be issued by the UN
January 2, 1942 – Washington D.C. - Meeting to
determine the scale of US war production in 1942 and 1943
January 5, 1942 – Pompano, North of Miami - Churchill
flies to Florida to recuperate by the sea in a secluded bungalow
January 12, 1942 – Washington D.C. - The Conference
with Roosevelt ends
January 14, 1942 – Bermuda - Churchill takes the
controls of a flying boat to Bermuda
January 15, 1942 – London - Churchill arrives in
Britain and is almost shot down over Plymouth
February 14, 1942 – London - Churchill authorizes the
surrender of commonwealth forces in Singapore
May 15, 1942 – Leeds - Speech in Leeds
June 17, 1942 – Stranraer, Scotland - Churchill
arrives in Stranraer by train. Boards a flying boat to the US
June 18, 1942 – Anacostia Naval Air Base, Washington
D.C. - After a refuelling stop in Newfoundland, Churchill lands in Washington
June 19, 1942 – New Hackensack | Hyde Park, Hudson
River - Churchill meets Roosevelt
June 21, 1942 – Washington D.C. - Roosevelt and
Churchill arrive at dawn in Washington by train
June 24, 1942 – Camp Jackson, South Carolina - Watches
a battalion of american troops doing parachute drops
June 25, 1942 – Baltimore - Churchill boards his
flying boat
July 1, 1942 – London - Churchill faces a vote of
censure against him in the House of Commons
July 14, 1942 – London - While planning for a Cairo
trip, Churchill is informed that nearly 400,000 tons of shipping were sunk in
the Arctic and Atlantic
July 31, 1942 – Farnborough - Churchill goes to
Farnborough for a special oxygen mask test
August 1, 1942 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill reaches Cairo (via Gibraltar) aboard a US B-24 flying at 15,000 feet unpressurized
August 4, 1942 – El Alamein, Egypt - Visit to the
troops in El Alamein
August 5, 1942 – Cairo, Egypt - Back to Cairo
August 10, 1942 – Teheran, Iran - Churchill arrives in
Teheran, after another unpressurized flight aboard a US B-24
August 12, 1942 – Moscow - Churchill arrives in Moscow for the "Moscow Conference"
August 17, 1942 – Cairo, Egypt - Returns to Cairo
August 24, 1942 – London - Churchill returns to London
September 12, 1942 – Chequers - Churchill hosts
Generals Clark and Eisenhower at Chequers
November 15, 1942 - Churchill orders church bells to
be ring throughout England to celebrate the victory in the Western Desert
January 12, 1943 – Casablanca, Morocco - Churchill
takes a flight to Casablanca
January 24, 1943 – Marrakech, Morocco - Churchill
shows Roosevelt his holiday haunt of 1936
January 27, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill takes a
flight to Cairo
January 30, 1943 – Adana, Turkey - Churchill takes a
flight to Adana to hold talks with the turkish prime-minister
February 2, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill returns to
Cairo and rejoices after hearing the news from Stalingrad
February 3, 1943 – Tripoli, Libya - Churchill visits
the 8th Army at Tripoli
February 5, 1943 – Algiers - Arrival in Algiers aboard
a bomber
February 7, 1943 – Lyneham - Churchill arrives in
England aboard a B-24
February 8, 1943 – London - Return to London by train
after midnight
March 21, 1943 – Chequers - After almost a month of
pnemonia, Churchill broadcasts for the 1st time in year
May 4, 1943 – Clyde, Scotland - Churchill takes a
train to the Clyde and Boards the "Queen Mary"
May 7, 1943 – Atlantic Ocean - Churchill receives news
of the fall of Tunis and Bizerte. Orders church bells to ring again
May 11, 1943 – New York City - Aboard the "Queen
Mary" approaching the United States
May 12, 1943 – Shangri-La (Camp David), Maryland - Roosevelt
takes Churchill to his mountain retreat in Maryland
May 14, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill and
Roosevelt return to Washington
May 19, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill addresses
the american Congress
May 26, 1943 – Newfoundland, Canada - Churchill boards
a flying boat to Newfoundland, on his way to Eisenhower in Africa
May 27, 1943 – Gibraltar - Churchill lands in
Gibraltar
May 28, 1943 – Algiers, Algeria - Churchill flies to
Algiers aboard a V.I.P. Lancaster bomber
June 1, 1943 – Tunis, Tunisia - Visit to the Roman
Amphitheatre of Carthage (Tunis) and an american flying squadron
June 3, 1943 – Algiers, Algeria - At Eisenhower's HQ,
with Montgomery, Marshall, Tedder, Alexander and King
June 4, 1943 – Gibraltar - Churchill boards the V.I.P.
Lancaster to London
June 5, 1943 – London - Back in London
July 9, 1943 – Chequers - At Chequers awaiting news of
the Sicily landings
August 5, 1943 – Clyde, Scotland - Churchill takes the
Train to Clyde and boards the "Queen Mary" to Halifax, Canada
August 9, 1943 – Halifax, Canada - Churchill arrives
in Canada. Takes train to Quebec
August 10, 1943 – Quebec - Arrival in Quebec
August 17, 1943 – Quebec - Churchill receives news of
the total liberation of Sicily
August 20, 1943 – Grand Lac d’Epaule - Fishing and
discussing the merits of Sumatra and Burma as next british objectives
August 24, 1943 – Quebec - End of the Quebec
Conference. Departs to rest at La Cabane de Montmorency
August 31, 1943 – Quebec - Broadcast to the canadian
people
September 1, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill
arrives in Washington by train. Learns that the italian government had agreed
to the Allied terms of surrender
September 6, 1943 – Boston - Visit to Boston to
receive an honorary degree at Harvard
September 8, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill learns
of the formal surrender of the italian armed forces to the Allies
September 14, 1943 – Halifax, Canada - Arrival in
Halifax by train. Boards the battleship "Renown"
September 19, 1943 – Clyde, Scotland - The
"Renown" arrives in the Clyde
September 20, 1943 – London - Back in London November 11, 1943 - Plymouth - Churchill takes the train to Plymouth and boards the battleship "Renown" November 14(?), 1943 - Gibraltar November 16, 1943 - Algiers - The "Renown" arrives in Algiers November 17, 1943 - Malta - The "Renown" arrives in Malta
November 19, 1943 – Malta - Churchill inspects the
damage done by a bombardment
November 21, 1943 – Alexandria, Egypt - The
"Renown" arrives in Alexandria
November 23, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - The Cairo
Conference begins. Churchill takes Roosevelt to the Pyramids
November 27, 1943 – Teheran, Iran - Churchill and
Roosevelt arrive in Teheran aboard different airplanes
November 28, 1943 – Teheran, Iran - First meeting of
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
December 2, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill flies back
to Cairo
December 10, 1943 – Carthage, Tunisia - Churchill
flies to Tunisia. Lands in wrong airport. Meets Eisenhower. Pneumonia
December 17, 1943 – Carthage, Tunisia - Clementine
arrives to see Churchill, after he suffered a mild heart attack
December 23, 1943 – Carthage, Tunisia - Churchill is
visited by Eisenhower, after a second mild heart attack
December 27, 1943 – Marrakech, Morocco - Churchill
flies to Marrakech with an oxygen mask and medical care
December 31, 1943 – Marrakech, Morocco - Eisenhower
and Montgomery reach Marrakech to discuss "Overlord" plans with
Churchill
January 12, 1944 – Marrakech, Morocco - Churchill
receives Charles de Gaulle as his guest
January 14, 1944 – Gibraltar - Churchill arrives in
Gibraltar by plane. Boards the battleship "King George V"
January 17, 1944 – Plymouth - Arrival in Britain
January 18, 1944 – London - Arrives in London by train March 23, 1944 - Aldbourne, Wiltshire - The 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 506th PIR make a combined jump during an inspection by Prime-minister Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Gen. Maxwell Taylor
March 31, 1944 – Yorkshire - Visiting troops in
training for Operation Overlord
April 21, 1944 – London - Speech to the Commons about
India becoming a self-governing Dominion
May 15, 1944 - St.Paul's School, London - Final briefing for the invasion of Normandy at St.Paul's School in London, with the presence of the King, Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower, Ramsey, Leigh-Mallory, Patton, Spaatz and Omar Bradley
June 3, 1944 – Southampton - Watches troops embarking
on their landing craft
June 4, 1944 – London - Back in London
June 12, 1944 – Dover - Churchill arrives in Dover by
train
June 13, 1944 – Courseulles | Cruelly - Churchill
meets Montgomery at Courseulles. Meeting in Montgomery's HQ in Cruelly
June 14, 1944 – Portsmouth - Churchill returns to
Britain aboard a destroyer
June 15, 1944 – London - Back in London
July 20, 1944 – Cherbourg - Churchill flies to
Cherbourg to visit an unfinished flying-bomb site
July 21, 1944 – Blay | Villers-Bocage - Visiting
troops and instalations with Montgomery
July 22, 1944 – London - Churchill flies to London
August 10, 1944 – Algiers - Churchill flies to Algiers
to meet Alexander
August 12, 1944 – Naples, Italy - Telegram to Stalin
urging him to help the poles in Warsaw
August 17, 1944 – Siena, Italy - Churchill drives to
Cassino and then flies to Siena, to Alexander's HQ
August 21, 1944 – Rome - Churchill flies to Rome
August 23, 1944 – Siena, Italy - At Alexander's HQ
August 27, 1944 – Naples - Flight back to Naples
August 28, 1944 – Rabat, Morocco - Stop in Rabat for a
night
August 29, 1944 – London - Returns to London, with
Pneumonia again
September 5, 1944 – Greenock, Clyde – Scotland - Churchill
takes a train to Greenock and boards the "Queen Mary"
September 10, 1944 – Halifax, Canada - The "Queen
Mary" arrives in Canada
September 12, 1944 – Quebec - Churchill and Roosevelt
meet in Quebec
September 20, 1944 – New York City - Churchill embarks
on the "Queen Mary"
September 26, 1944 – Greenock, Clyde – Scotland - The
"Queen Mary" arrives in Britain
September 27, 1944 – London - Back in London
October 3, 1944 – London - Churchill takes Clementine
to the Theatre. Lawrence Olivier in "Anns and the Man"
October 4, 1944 – London - Churchill takes Clementine
to the Theatre. Lawrence Olivier in Shakespeare's"Richard III"
October 7, 1944 – Naples, Italy - Churchill flies to
Naples
October 9, 1944 – Moscow - Churchill arrives in Moscow
October 18, 1944 – Simferopol, Crimea - Churchill has
dinner in Crimea, on his way to Naples
October 19, 1944 – Cairo | Naples - Churchill reaches
Naples, via Cairo and Benghazi (to avoid german-held Crete)
October 22, 1944 – London - Churchill returns to
London
November 4, 1944 – Chequers - Churchill has lunch with
Dr Weizmann, the zionist leader
November 10, 1944 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris
November 11, 1944 – Paris - Churchill is guest of
honor on the Armistice Day parade through the Arc de Triomphe
November 13, 1944 – London - Back in London
December 3, 1944 – London - Churchill protest to Tito
about his refusal to allow british warships to dock at Split and Sibenik
December 25, 1944 – Naples | Kalamaki Airport - Churchill
flies to Naples on Christmas day. Reaches Greece in the afternoon
December 26, 1944 – Phaleron Bay, Greece - Churchill
goes aboard "HMS Ajax"
December 28, 1944 – Naples - Spends the night in
Naples
December 29, 1944 – London - Back in London
January 3, 1945 – Outside Paris - Flies to
Eisenhower's HQ outside Paris
January 4, 1945 – near Ghent - Meets Montgomery on his
HQ
January 12, 1945 – London - Montgomery, in a public
speech, belittles the american contribution in the Ardennes battle - Churchill
is furious!
January 30, 1945 – Malta - Churchill reaches Malta, on
his way to Yalta
February 2, 1945 – Yalta, Crimea - Churchill arrives
in Yalta
February 13, 1945 – Sevastopol - Churchill boards the
"Franconia" to work
February 14, 1945 – Athens - Churchill arrives in
Athens. Flies to Cairo, then by car to Alexandria
February 15, 1945 – Alexandria, Egypt - Churchill
meets Roosevelt for the last time, aboard the US cruiser "Quincy"
February 17, 1945 – Lake Fayyum - Churchill gives a
banquet to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
February 18, 1945 – Cairo, Egypt - Returns to Cairo
February 19, 1945 – London - Returns to London
February 24, 1945 – Chequers - Lunch with President
Benes of Czechoslovakia
March 2, 1945 – Eindhoven | Geldrop - Churchill flies
to Holland, via Brussels, to meet Montgomery
March 3, 1945 – Jülich, Germany - Churchill visits the
Siegfried Line
March 6, 1945 – London - Back in London
March 23, 1945 – Venlo, Netherlands - Churchill flies
to the Netherlands
March 24, 1945 – Ginderich - Churchill watches
Montgomery's offensive begin
March 25, 1945 – Straelen - Churchill spends the day watching
the front from a small airplane
March 28, 1945 – Nordholt - Saying goodbye to
Clementine, who was going to Russia in a Red Cross mission
May 23, 1945 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill
tenders his resignation to the King
July 7, 1945 – Bordeaux | Chateau de Bordaberry - Churchill
flies to Bordeaux, then by car to Bordaberry for a week's rest
July 15, 1945 – Berlin | Potsdam - Churchill flies
from Bordeaux to Berlin. Montgomery, Attlee, Eden and Alexander are waiting for
him
July 16, 1945 – Potsdam - First meeting between
Churchill and Truman
July 18, 1945 – Potsdam - Lunch with Truman. Dinner
with Stalin
July 21, 1945 – Berlin - Churchill attends a british
Victory Parade
July 24, 1945 – Potsdam - Churchill gives a banquet to
Stalin and Truman. Dinner with Mountbatten
July 25, 1945 – London - Back in London
July 27, 1945 – Buckingham Palace, London - After
loosing the elections, Churchill tenders his resignation to the King
September 2, 1945 – Villa delle Rose, Lake Como –
Italy - Churchill flies to Italy to rest
September 19, 1945 – Villa Pirelli, 18 miles east of
Genoa - Churchill continues his rest at the seashore
September 23, 1945 – Antibes, France - Churchill moves
to a Villa in France
September 27, 1945 – London - Returns to London
November 16, 1945 – Brussels - Speech to the Belgian
Senate
January 8, 1946 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill
is awarded the Order of Merit from the King
January 9, 1946 – Southampton - Churchill departs with
Clementine aboard the "Queen Elizabeth" for the United States
January 14, 1946 – New York City - Arrival in the
United States. Churchill takes a train to Miami Beach
January 16, 1946 – Miami Beach - Arrives in Miami
Beach. Churchill gives a press conference
February 1, 1946 – Havana, Cuba - Churchill, Clementine
and daughter fly to Havana
February 8, 1946 – Miami Beach - Back in Miami Beach
February 10, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Flies to
Washington. Dinner with Truman
February 12, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Lunch with
Eisenhower at the British Embassy
February 13, 1946 – Miami Beach - Back in Miami Beach
February 25, 1946 – Miami - Speech to 17,000 people in
the Burdine Stadium
March 1, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Churchill arrives in
Washington by train
March 5, 1946 – Fulton, Missouri - Churchill and
Truman arrive in Missouri by train
March 7, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Back in Washington
March 8, 1946 – University of Virginia - Lecture with
presence of Eisenhower
March 12, 1946 – New York City - Churchill is attacked
by the newspaper "Pravda"
March 20, 1946 – New York City - The Churchills depart
for Britain aboard the "Queen Mary"
March 26, 1946 – London - Back in London
August 23, 1946 – Villa Choisi, Lake Geneva –
Switzerland - Churchill flies to Switzerland to prepare a speech about a united
Europe
September 19, 1946 – Zürich - Speech at the University
of Zürich
October 5, 1946 – Blackpool - Speech at Blackpool
February 11, 1947 – St.Margaret’s, Westminster - Churchill
attend the marriage of his daughter Mary
May 20, 1947 – Chartwell - Churchill is visited by Attlee
and Lord Mountbatten
August 4, 1947 – Blenheim - Conservative Rally
November 5, 1947 - Speaks against the Burma
Independence Bill
December 6, 1947 – Manchester - Churchill receives the
Freedom of Manchester
December 10, 1947 – Paris | Marrakech - Churchill
flies to Paris, then to Marrakech
December 12, 1947 – Marrakech – Letter to Clementine
January 18, 1948 – Marrakech - Churchill departs to
Britain
January 22, 1948 – London - Speech to the Commons
about conflict with Soviet Union
May 7, 1948 – The Hague - Inaugural meeting of the
Congress of Europe - Churchill pleas for letting "national rancours and
revenges" die
May 9, 1948 – Amsterdam - Speech in Amsterdam
June 2, 1948 – Savoy Hotel, London - Lunch in
Churchill's honor
August 22, 1948 – Aix-en-Provence - Churchill and
Clementine travel to Aix-en-Provence
September 20, 1948 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur –
France - Churchill moves to Beaverbrook's Villa in the Côte d'Azur
October 2, 1948 – Chartwell - Returns to Chartwell
October 5, 1948 – Biggin Hill - Speech to the 615
Squadron
October 9, 1948 – Llandudno, North Wales - Conservative
Party Rally
December 27, 1948 – Paris - Departs to Paris and Monte
Carlo
January 13, 1949 – Chartwell - Back in England
February 26, 1949 – Brussels - Speech to the Council
of the European Movement for the Creation of a European Court of Human Rights
March 18, 1949 – Southampton(?) - Departs to the
united States aboard the "Queen Elizabeth"
March 25, 1949 – New York City - Speech in New York,
praising the recently signed Atlantic Pact
March 31, 1949 – Boston - Speech at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
April 4(?), 1949 – New York City - Boards the
"Queen Elizabeth" to Britain
April 10(?), 1949 – Southampton(?) - Return to Britain
August 17, 1949 – Strasbourg - Speech for the
Inaugural meeting of the Council of Europe
August 23, 1949 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France
- With film Star Merle Oberon as guest
August 31, 1949 – Chartwell - Return to Chartwell,
after a mild stroke
October 13, 1949 – London - Speech at the Conservative
Trades Union Congress
October 19, 1949 – Bristol - Delivers the Chancellor's
address at the honorary degree ceremony
October 21, 1949 – London - Speech at the annual
Alamein Reunion in the Albert Hall
November 2, 1949 – London - Speech at the National
Book Exhibition
December 29, 1949 – Madeira Island, Portugal - Churchill
flies to Madeira
January 12, 1950 – London - Churchill leaves Madeira
in a hurry because of General Elections on February 23
February 14, 1950 – Edinburgh - Speech in Edinburgh
February 16, 1950 – Chartwell - Rumours spread that
Churchill had died. He shows himself at a press conference later
March 8, 1950 – London - Speech to the Commons - time
had come for west germany to take part in Western defence
August 6, 1950 – Strasbourg - Flies to Strasbourg for
the Council of Europe
August 11, 1950 – Strasbourg - Speech to The Council
of Europe about the Russian Communist Aggression
August 26, 1950 – Chartwell - Returns to Britain
October 10, 1950 – Copenhagen - Churchill flies to
Copenhagen to receive an honorary degree from the University of Copenhagen
October 12(?), 1950 – London - Back in Britain
December 25, 1950 – Marrakech - Letter to Clementine
January 1, 1951 – Tinehir, Atlas Mountains, Morocco - Painting
for two days at Tinerhir
January 3, 1951 – Marrakech - Back in Marrakech
January 20, 1951 – London - Returns to London
May 18, 1951 – Glasgow - Rebukes the Labour benches
for their pro-Chinese and anti-American sentiments
August 15, 1951 – Annécy, France - Churchill joins
Clementine at Annecy. Later departs to Venice
September 12, 1951 – London - Back in England
October 2, 1951 – Liverpool - First speech of the new
Campaign
October 23, 1951 – Plymouth - Speech at election
meeting
October 26, 1951 – Buckingham Palace, London - The
King asks Churchill to form a Government
October 30, 1951 – London - The first Cabinet of
Churchill's peacetime administration meets
December 31, 1951 – Southampton - Churchill departs
for the United States aboard the "Queen Mary"
January 4, 1952 – New York City | Washington - Churchill
arrives in the United States. Flies to Washington
January 9, 1952 – New York City - Returns to New York
January 11, 1952 – Ottawa, Canada - Speech at a
banquet given in his honor by the Government of Canada
January 17, 1952 – Washington D.C. - Speech to the
American Congress
January 20, 1952 – New York City - Resting for a
couple of days in New York
January 22, 1952 – New York City - Departs to Britain
January 28, 1952 – Southampton - Arrival in Britain
February 7, 1952 – London - Churchill broadcasts about
King George VI and his final illness
September 9, 1952 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur –
France - Holidays with Clementine
September 25, 1952 – London - Back in London
October 1, 1952 – Balmoral, Scotland - Churchill is
guest of the Queen at Balmoral
October 2, 1952 – London - Back in London
October 11, 1952 – Scarborough - Addresses the
Conservative Party Conference
December 30, 1952 – Southampton - Churchill boards the
"Queen Mary" to the United States
January 4, 1953 – New York City - Churchill arrives in
the United States. Visits his mother's house
January 7, 1953 – New York City - Meeting with
Eisenhower
January 8, 1953 – Washington D.C. - Meeting with
Truman
January 9, 1953 – Kingston, Jamaica - Churchill flies
to Jamaica
January 29, 1953 – London - Churchill returns to
London by air
April 17, 1953 – Glasgow - Speech in a meeting of
scottish conservatives
May 27, 1953 – Downing Street, London - Pre-Coronation
dinner with Queen Elizabeth
June 2, 1953 – Westminster Abbey, London - Coronation
of Queen Elizabeth II
June 26, 1953 – London - Churchill's left side is
partially paralyzed after another stroke
July 4, 1953 – Chartwell - Churchill recovers to be
able to walk short distances unaided
August 8, 1953 – Chequers - Presides over a meeting of
foreign ministers - the appearances left by his stroke vanish
September 8, 1953 – Downing Street, London - Back in
Downing Street, recovered - Cabinet discussion about the Suez Canal
September 11, 1953 – Doncaster - Churchill goes to the
horse races
September 12(?), 1953 – Balmoral, Scotland - Meets the
Queen and accompanies her to Crathie Kirk
September 17, 1953 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur –
France - In France for two weeks holidays
September 30, 1953 – London - Back in London
October 9, 1953 – Margate - Speech in Margate
October 16, 1953 - Churchill is awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature, "for his mastery of historical and biographical
description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human
values".
November 3, 1953 – London - Churchill gives such a
performance at the Commons that pressures for him to retire end
December 1, 1953 – Bermuda - Churchill flies to
Bermuda
December 3, 1953 – Bermuda - Meeting with Eisenhower
December 10, 1953 – London - Churchill returns to
London, disappointed with the results of the Conference
February 3, 1954 – London - First debate about the
growing emigration of "coloured" people to Britain
April 5, 1954 – London - Speech to the Commons about
the Hydrogen Bomb - Churchill starts to look frail
June 24, 1954 – Washington D.C. - Churchill flies to
Washington with Eden and Cherwell. Nixon meets them at the airport
June 29, 1954 – Washington D.C. - Churchill and
Eisenhower announce their agreement that West Germany should take its place as
an equal partner in the community of Western Nations where it can make its
proper contribution to the defence of the free world
June 30, 1954 – Ottawa, Canada - Churchill broadcasts
to the canadian people
July 1, 1954 – New York City - Churchill boards the
"Queen Elizabeth" to Britain
July 6, 1954 – Southampton - Churchill arrives in
Britain
July 7, 1954 – London - Churchill tells the Cabinet of
his decision to manufacture a british hydrogen bomb
October 9, 1954 – Blackpool - Speech at the
Conservative Party Conference
November 26, 1954 – Bristol - Speech at Bristol
University
April 4, 1955 – Downing Street, London - Farewell
Dinner to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
April 6(?), 1955 – Villa Politi, Syracuse – Italy - After
tendering his resignation to the Queen, Churchill flies to Syracuse, reading a
thanks letter from the Queen
April 18, 1955 – Villa Politi, Syracuse – Italy - Churchill
responds to the Queen's letter
April 28, 1955 – London - Returns to London
September 15, 1955 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur –
France - Churchill and Clementine fly to the South of France
November 14, 1955 – London – Returns to London
January 7, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill
flies to the South of France. Painting lessons and gramophone music
February 16, 1956 – London - Churchill goes to London
to participate in the Death Penalty (hanging) bill
March 1, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Back
at La Pausa
April 11, 1956 – London - Churchill flies to London to
surprise Clementine, who was arriving from Marseille
April 17, 1956 – Downing Street, London - Churchill is
invited to have dinner with Prime-Minister Eden and Khrushchev
May 10, 1956 – Aachen, Germany - Ceremony for the
reception of the Charlemagne Prize
May 11, 1956 – Celle, Germany - Churchill spends the
next days visiting british troops
May 13, 1956 – Biggin Hill - Churchill returns to
Britain
May 30, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France -
Churchill and Clementine fly to the South of France
July 30, 1956 – London - Eden sees Churchill and starts
giving him details of the policy in Suez
September 17, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill
returns to La Pausa
October 19, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill
suffers a stroke and passes out
October 28, 1956 – London - Back in London
November 5, 1956 – London - Newspaper article -
"Why I decided to support the Government on the Egyptian issue"
January 10, 1957 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill
is asked as a matter of courtesy for his advice as to Eden's successor
January 12(?), 1957 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill
returns to La Pausa
February 13, 1957 – London - Back in London
February 1(?), 1958 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Gets
Bronchial pneumonia
April 1(?), 1958 – London - Back in London
September 12, 1958 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur - Churchill
and Clementine celebrate their Golden Wedding
September 22, 1958 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur –
France - Churchill embarks on the yacht "Christina" as guest of
Onassis
October 2, 1958 – Gibraltar - The "Christina"
reaches Gibraltar
October 3, 1958 – London - Returns to London by plane
October 12, 1958 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Returns
by air to La Pausa
November 6, 1958 – Paris - De Gaulle decorates
Churchill with the Croix of Libertation
January(?) 1(?), 1959 – Marrakech - Flies to Marrakech
with Clementine
May 5, 1959 – Washington D.C. – Letter to Clementine.
Guest of Eisenhower
May 15, 1959 – London - Returns to Britain
June 1(?), 1959 – Aegean Sea | La Pausa - Churchill
leaves again for another cruise on the "Christina" and La Pausa
September 29, 1959 – London - Speeks to his
constituency
November 30, 1959 – Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo –
Churchill and Clementine fly to the South of France. Later departs on the
"Christina" to the Western Indies
September 1(?), 1961 – London - Returns to London
October 30, 1961 – London - Attends the State Opening
of Parliament
June 1(?), 1962 – Monte Carlo, France - Churchill
falls and breaks his hip. Asks to "die in England". A RAF Comet takes
him home
April 30, 1963 – Monte Carlo, France - Churchill
returns to Monte Carlo
June 1(?), 1963 – Monte Carlo, France - Embarks on the
"Christina" to Sardinia, Corfu and Athens
July 1(?), 1963 – London – Back in London
July 27, 1964 – London - Last Visit to the Commons
January 10, 1965 – London - Churchill suffers a
massive stroke
January 24, 1965 – London - Sir Winston Churchill
dies, aged 90 =(END)
