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| 1951 |
| | | Appointed minister of housing in Churchill's new government, Harold Macmillan soon achieves the ambitious target of building 300,000 houses a year | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Churchill moves Harold Macmillan to a new department, as minister of defence | |
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| 1955 |
| | | The new UK prime minister, Anthony Eden, gives Harold Macmillan the post of foreign secretary | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Anthony Eden moves Harold Macmillan to a new position, as chancellor of the exchequer | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez canal and wins Soviet finance for his Aswan dam | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Under international pressure Britain and France agree to a humiliating withdrawal from Suez | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Anthony Eden resigns as UK prime minister after the fiasco of the Suez Crisis, and is succeeded by Harold Macmillan | |
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| 1957 |
| | | At a conference in Bermuda, Macmillan meets Eisenhower and patches up the 'special relationship' after the rift over Suez | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Harold Macmillan tells a meeting in Bedford that 'most of our people have never had it so good' | |
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