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| 1745 | Charles Edward |  |
| 26th Dec Glasgow The Camerons & the Prince arrive in Glasgow
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| 1746 | Charles Edward | |
| 6th Jan Stirling The Jacobite army is reinforced by the arrival of Lady MacKintosh and 400 clansmen
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| 6th Jan Stirling The Prince's army arrives in the Stirling area
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| 16th Jan Plean Muir Draws up the Jacobite army in battle order sth of Bannockburn
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| 1853 | Hamilton-Gordon, George | |
| 2nd June Besika Bay The fleet is ordered to Besika Bay to warn Russia not to attack the Ottoman Empire
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| 2nd June Besika Bay The Tsar sends his troops into Moldavia and Wallachia (the "Danubian Principalities"), Great Britain, seeking to maintain the security of the Ottoman Empire, sends a fleet to the Dardanelles, where it joined another fleet sent by France
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| 1854 | Hamilton-Gordon, George | |
| Mar Varna A joint Anglo-French force is moved to Varna to repel the Russian Invasion of Bulgaria
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| 1854 | Somerset, Fitzroy | |
| 7th Sep Varna The Allied force departs to the Crimean Peninsular in a convoy of 150 warships
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| 18th Sep Old Fort The Allied force lands at Old Fort on an open beach 30 miles North of Sebastopol
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| 1900 | Buller, Redvers | |
| 14th Aug Vlakfontein Roberts & Buller join forces at Vlakfontein
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| 1900 | Roberts, Frederick Sleigh | |
| 14th Aug Vlakfontein Roberts & Buller join forces at Vlakfontein
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| 1905 | Haldane, Robert Anthony | |
| London Plans the mobilization of British Expeditionary Force
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| 1914 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 28th July North Sea Orders the Fleet to take up its War Stations in the North Sea
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| 1914 | Kitchener, Horatio Herbert | |
| 7th Aug Ostend The BEF lands at Ostend, Calais & Dunkirk
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| 1915 | Kitchener, Horatio Herbert | |
| Kitchener's slogan, "Your Country Needs You!", helps gain 1.7 million volunteers
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| 1917 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 29th Dec London Presses for the cavalry to man tanks
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| 1918 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 18th Mar London Cables all factories to requested increased output
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| 1938 | Sargent, Orme | |
| 16th Mar London Calls for staff talks with France & the Belgium
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| 1939 | Chamberlain, Neville | |
| Mar Cabinet decides in the event of war with Germany an army will be sent to Europe
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| 29th Mar Cabinet decides to double the territorial force
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| 27th April Conscription is introduced
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| 29th April London Conscription is created for 6 months service for men aged 20
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| 12th Sep Abbeville Advises Daladier that it had been wise not to undertake large scale operations
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| 12th Sep Abbeville Attends the 1st meeting of the Anglo-French Supreme War Council
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| 1939 | Montgomery, Bernard Law | |
| 1st Sep Full mobilization of the 3rd Division is ordered
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| 1940 | Montgomery, Bernard Law | |
| Somerset Begins the re-formation of the 3rd Division after Dunkirk
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| June Steyning Sets up a Divisional HQ near Steyning
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| June Brighton The 3rd Division is stationed to defend the coast around Brighton
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| 1942 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 6th Aug London Advises the War Cabinet to appoint Gott as the Commander of the 8th Army
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| 6th Aug London Advises the War Cabinet to replace Auchinleck by Alexander
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| 6th Aug London Advises the War Cabinet to split-off Persia & Irak from the Middle East Command
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| 1942 | Montgomery, Bernard Law | |
| Feb Agheila The 8th Army reaches Agheila but it cannot be captured from Rommel
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| 10th Aug Leaves Britain to take command of the 8th Army
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| 1943 | Montgomery, Bernard Law | |
| 7th April The British & USA forces join up in North Africa
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| 1948 | Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| London The Civil Defence Act is passed
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| 1949 | Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| London Completes the plans for a World War III British state
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| London Creates a secret group of ministers to approve subversion behind the Iron Curtain
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| 1950 | Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| London Completes detailed procedures for an atomic World War III
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| 1982 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 2nd April London Cabinet approves the sending of the task force
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| 29th April Falklands, The The task force arrives at the exclusion zone
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