Britains first woman Prime Minister - the Margaret Thatcher timeline 1925 October 13 - Margaret Thatcher is born in the market town of Grantham, Lincolnshire 1947 - Thatcher graduates from Oxford with a Chemistry degree 1954 June 1 - Qualifies as a lawyer 1970 - Enters the Cabinet as Education Secretary 1975 February 11 - Elected Conservative Party leader, beating Edward Heath. 1975-9 - Leader of the Opposition 1979 May 4 - The Conservative Party wins the general election, Thatcher succeeds James Callaghan as PM 1979 December 13 - Abolition of Exchange Controls 1980 - Buses deregulated and bus routes privatised 1980 - British Aerospace partly privatised 1980 - April - Local Government stopped from building council homes and tenants given the right to buy1981 - April-July Urban rioting in Brixton in London, Toxteth in Liverpool and St. Pauls in Bristol. 1982 - January Unemployment tops 3 million 1982 - April-June Falklands War 1983 - Associated British Ports (ABP) privatised 1983 - British Shipbuilding privatised 1983 June 9 - Second term as PM begins; the Conservatives secure a landslide election victory 1984-5 - Miners strike, amid the closure and privatisation of coal mines 1984 - British Leyland car manufacturers privatised 1984 October 12 - Narrowly escapes death after the IRA bombs the Conservative party conference in Brighton, killing 5 1984 November - British Telecom (BT) the old Post Office Telecommunications is privatised 1985 - Attempted suppression of former MI5 officer Peter Wrights autobiography Spycatcher which is then published in Australia & Scotland. 1985 June 1 - Battle Of The Beanfield, Britains traveller peace convoy destroyed near Stonehenge, Wiltshire by violent police action as recorded in the Operation Solstice documentary 1986 - January Wapping dispute as Rupert Murdoch embraces electronic publishing and breaks the power of print unions, depicted in the documentary Despite The Sun 1986 - British Airports Authority (BAA) privatised 1986 - March Abolition of Ken Livingstones opposition Labour controlled Greater London Council or GLC1986 October 27 - Big Bang deregulation of the City of London financial sector which many believe contributed to the 2008 financial crisis 1986 December - British Gas privatised 1987 January - After several TV and radio programmes critical of the Thatcher government Victor Rothschild & Marmaduke Hussey sack BBC Director General Alasdair Milne 1987 February - British Airways privatised 1987 - Majority share in British Petroleum (BP) privatised 1987 - Rolls Royce aero engines privatised 1987 June 11 - Wins third term as Prime Minister 1988 - British Steel privatised 1989 - British Aerospace fully privatised 1989 - Water Boards privatised 1990 - The Electricity Act began the complex privatisation of electricity (except nuclear) 1990 March 31 - Poll tax riots culminate in a 200,000 strong march on central London, as portrayed in The Battle Of Trafalgar documentary 1990 October 30 - Thatcher No!, No!, No! speech in Commons makes it clear she is set against European Monetary and Political Union 1990 November 13 - Geoffrey Howe resigns in protest at Thatchers refusal to agree a timetable for European Monetary Union 1990 November 14 - Former cabinet minister Michael Heseltine challenges Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership 1990 November 28 - Thatcher resigns, despite having won the first ballot. She is succeeded by John Major1992 - Thatcher leaves the House of Commons, joins the Lords as Baroness Thatcher 1994 - Praises Tony Blair and New Labour as her proudest achievement 2013 April 8 - Lady Thatcher dies in The Ritz hotel owned by Daily Telegraph proprietors the Barclay twins.rt/op-edge/margaret-thatcher-man-shadows-929/
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