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| 1781 | Election |  |
| Chatham First elected MP |
| 1782 | Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1st term |
| 1783 | Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term |
| 1783 | First Lord of the Treasury | |
| Appointed First Lord of the Treasury |
| 1783 | Peace | |
| 4th Feb Proclaims an end to British hostilities in America |
| 1783 | Prime Minister | |
| 19th Dec Appointed Prime Minister by George III, Britain's youngest Prime Minister, age 24 |
| 1783 | Reform | |
| Forwards plans for modifying the East India Charter but is defeated |
| Forwards plans for Parliamentary reform but is defeated |
| 1783 | Rule of Florida | |
| 3rd Sep Florida Under the treaty of Paris Britain cedes Florida to Spain |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris | |
| 3rd Sep Versailles Britain signs a Peace Pact with France & Spain at Versailles , ceding Florida to Spain |
| 3rd Sep Versailles The treaty of Paris is signed by Britain & the US, formally ending the war |
| 1784 | Budget | |
| Puts government contracts out to competitive tender |
| Rises taxes, e.g. window tax, & creates a sinking fund |
| The National debt rises to œ238m & Pitt creates a single treasury |
| 1784 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term |
| 1784 | Reform | |
| Introduces a Parliamentary reform bill which is defeated by 248 votes to 174 |
| Passes legislation establishing a new constitution for the East India Company |
| 1784 | Treaty of Paris | |
| 14th Jan Paris The USACongress ratifies the treaty of Paris |
| 1784 | Treaty of Peace | |
| 14th Jan The USACongress ratifies the treaty of Paris |
| 1785 | Reform | |
| Fails to create a commercial union of the British Isles |
| 1785 | Taxation | |
| Reduces the duty on tea in an attempt to reduce smuggling |
| 1786 | Diplomacy | |
| Negotiates a favourable commercial Treaty with France |
| 1787 | Reform | |
| Passes an Act regulating the Slave Trade |
| 1787 | Slavery | |
| 12th May Under what came to be known as the 'Wilberforce Oak' at Holwood, Pitt challenged his friend: "Wilberforce, why don't you give notice of a motion on the subject of the Slave Trade?" |
| 1788 | Triple Alliance | |
| 13th Aug Agreed between Britain, Prussia & Holland against France, the Empire & Russia |
| 1791 | Colonization | |
| Partitions Canada into the lower French & the upper British parts |
| 1792 | Dismissal | |
| Dismisses his Lord Chancellor for publicly dissociating from the "Sinking Fund" |
| 1792 | Reform | |
| 1st assertion collective cabinet responsibility |
| 1793 | Alliance | |
| Forms a coalition with Russia, Sardinia, Spain, Naples , Prussia, Austria & Portugal |
| 1794 | Diplomacy | |
| 17th Oct Cuts finances to the Prussian military, blames them for defeat to France in Germany |
| 1794 | Habeus Corpus | |
| 11th Nov London Suspends Habeus Corpus because of fears of Jacobinism & the French revolution |
| 1794 | Lord Privy Seal | |
| Appointed Lord Privy Seal |
| 1796 | President | |
| Appointed President of the Council |
| 1798 | Alliance | |
| Joins Russia, Portugal, Naples , Austria & the Turkey after the victory of the Nile |
| 24th Dec An Anglo-Russian alliance treaty is concluded |
| 1798 | Budget | |
| London Imposes 1d more stamp duty on British newspapers |
| London Prohibits import of foreign newspapers |
| London Proposes an income tax of 2s in œ1 |
| 1798 | Rebellion | |
| Wolfe Tone leads an abortive rebellion of the United Irishmen |
| 23rd May Wexford May 23-June 21, a rebellion takes place in Wexford |
| 1798 | Reform | |
| Forces George III to drop Catholic Emancipation after the rebellion of Ireland |
| 1799 | Radical Societies | |
| London All Radical Societies are banned |
| 1800 | Capture of Malta | |
| 5th Sep Malta French occupation troops on Malta surrender to the British |
| 1800 | Unification | |
| Creates peace by union with Ireland which lasts until 1801 |
| 2nd July An Act of Union with Ireland is passed in the House of Commons |
| 1st Aug Threats of Irish rebellion & French invasion convince Pitt that union is essential |
| 1801 | Capture of Carnatic | |
| Carnatic Britain captures the Carnatic region in India |
| 1801 | Constitution | |
| 1st Jan Churches are united into a single Protestant Episcopal Church |
| 1st Jan Ireland is to send 100 MPs to Westminster |
| 1st Jan Ireland will send 4 spiritual Lords & 28 temporal peers to Westminster |
| 1st Jan The Act of Union of Great Britain & Ireland becomes effective |
| 1st Jan The new state is to be called the United Kingdom |
| 2nd Jan 1st Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland assembles |
| 1801 | Legislation | |
| 1st Jan The Act of Union of Great Britain & Ireland comes into effect |
| 1801 | Resignation | |
| 3rd Feb London George III refuses to include Pitt's Catholic emancipation in the Act of Union |
| 1801 | Treaty of Amiens | |
| 27th Mar London Pitt agrees a peace with France for the sake of security |
| 27th Mar Amiens Pitt has none of the ideological objections he had with the revolutionary regimes |
| 27th Mar Amiens Pitt recognizes the French Directorate |
| 1801 | Unification | |
| 1st Jan London The Act of Union of Great Britain & Ireland comes into effect |
| 1804 | Capture of Calcutta | |
| Calcutta Britain captures Calcutta |
| 1804 | Coalition, 3rd | |
| Dec An Anglo-Swedish agreement leads to the creation of the Third Coalition |
| 1804 | Prime Minister | |
| 10th May Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term |
| 1805 | Coalition, 3rd | |
| St Petersburg Britain, not involved on the European continent due to fears of an impending French invasion, dealt a crushing blow to a combined Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in October and secured mastery of the seas |
| St Petersburg Britain & Russia sign an agreement directed against France & begin the 3rd Coalition |
| Mutual suspicion between the British and the Russians eased in the face of several French political mistakes, and by April of 1805 the two had signed a treaty of alliance |
| Prior to the formation of the Third Coalition, Napoleon had assembled the Army of England, an invasion force meant to strike at the British Isles, around six camps at Boulogne in Northern France |
| St Petersburg The War of the Third Coalition was a military conflict between an alliance of, primarily, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's recently formed French Empire |
| 26th Dec Austerlitz effectively brings the Third Coalition to an end & on December 26, 1805, Austria and France sign the Treaty of Press burg, which takes Austria out of the war |
| 1805 | Head of Admiralty Pitt the Younger | |
| Appointed Head of the Admiralty |
| 1805 | Property Tax Increase | |
| London Increases Property Tax by 25% |
| 1805 | Treaty of Pressburg Britain | |
| 26th Dec Pressburg Austerlitz effectively brings the Third Coalition to an end & on December 26, 1805, Austria and France sign the Treaty of Press burg, which takes Austria out of the war |
| 1806 | Death | |
| 23rd Jan London His last words are "oh, my Country! how I leave my Country" |
