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1834: The Tolpuddle martyrs[1] - 5 trade unionists are sentenced to 7 years transportation to Australia
1838: The People's Charter[2] We demand universal suffrage
1871: The Paris Commune[3] - Paris workers seize power and form the world's first socialist government
1881: Democratic Federation formed
1884: The Democratic Federation is renamed the Social Democratic Foundation

Fabian Society formed[4] - a socialist pressure group that wanted to create a "society in accordance with the highest moral possibilities".

1891: The Condition of the Working Class in England by Frederick Engels - depicting overcrowded housing, abject poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, dirt and drunkenness.
1892: Keir Hardie, a Scottish trade union leader, elected Member of Parliament as "Independent Labour"
1893: Independent Labour Party[5] formed by Keir Hardie "to secure the collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.
1900: Labour Representation Committee[6] - brought socialist groups togethe for the purpose of increasing working class representation in Parliament.

Keir Hardy elected as the first "Labour" Member of Parliament

1901: Taff Vale judgement[7] - upheld the right of a company to sue a trade union for the recovery of losses due to a strike
1906: The Labour Repesentation Committee renamed "The Labour Party"
1916: Sidney Webb joined the Labour Party Executive and helped to draft its constitution[8]
1924: 1st Labour Government[9]. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
1929: 2nd Labour Government[10]. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

1931 Recession raises the budget deficit Macdonald's proposal unemployment benefit leads to a cabinet split.

1931: National Government (coalition). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
1934: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) replaced Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister
1935: Clement Attlee became leader of the Labour Party
1940: Wartime coalition. Neville Chamberlain (Conservative) Prime Minister
1941: Winston Churchill (Conservative) became Prime Minister and Clement Attlee became Deputy Prime Minister
1945: 3rd Labour Government. Prime Minister Clement Atlee
1955 Hugh Gaitskell elected party leader
1964: Labour Government. Prime Minister Harold Wilson
1974: Labour Government. Prime Minister Harold Wilson
1976: Harold Wilson retired, James Callaghan becoame Prime Minister
1980: Michael Foot elected party leader
1983: Neil Kinnock replaced Michael Foot as party leader
1992: John Smith took over from Michael Foot
1994: John Smith died. Tony Blair elected party leader
1997: Labour Government. Prime Minister Tony Blair
2007: Tony Blair retired. Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister
2010: Conservative Government. Milliband elected Labour party leader.

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 * 1916: Sidney Webb joined the Labour Party Executive and helped to draft its constitution[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/online_resources/webb/labour_government_1924.aspx]
 * 1924: 1st Labour Government[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/online_resources/webb/labour_government_1924.aspx]. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
-* 1929: 2nd Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
+* 1929: 2nd Labour Government[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/online_resources/webb/labour_government_1929_1931.aspx]. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
+:: 1931 Recession raises the [[budget deficit]] Macdonald's proposal unemployment benefit leads to a cabinet split.
 * 1931: National Government (coalition). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
 * 1934:  Stanley Baldwin ([[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]) replaced Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister