Anthony Eden

British Conservative politician and diplomat. He served as Foreign Secretary three times (1935–1938, 1940–1945, and 1951–1955) and managed Allied diplomacy during World War II as a close advisor to Winston Churchill. He became Prime Minister in 1955, but his administration faltered due to the mishandling of the 1956 Suez Crisis, leading to his resignation on health grounds in 1957. Prior to World War II, he famously resigned as Foreign Secretary in protest against appeasement toward Mussolini's regime in Italy.

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Year	Anthony Eden
1897	Birth of Anthony Eden (Period: June 12, 1897, Location: Ferryhill, County Durham, England (birthplace Rushyford, current post town Ferryhill))
1915	Military service in World War I (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front)
1916	Injury in the Battle of the Somme (Age: 19 years old, Period: July – November 1916, Location: Somme Region, France)
1923	Marriage (Anthony Eden, Beatrice Beckett, Age: 26 years old, Period: November 5, 1923, Location: United Kingdom) First Election to the House of Commons (Anthony Eden, Age: 26 years old, Period: December 1923, Location: Warwick and Leamington Constituency (UK))
1931	Appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden, Age: 33 years old, Period: 1931–1934, Location: Foreign Office, London, UK)
1935	Second Italo-Ethiopian War (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1935–1936, Location: Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland, Eritrea) First Appointment as Foreign Secretary (Anthony Eden, Age: 38 years old, Period: December 1935 – February 1938, Location: Foreign Office, London, UK)
1937	Nyon Conference (Age: 40 years old, Period: September 10–14, 1937, Location: Nyon (Switzerland))
1938	Resignation of Eden as Foreign Secretary (Anthony Eden, Age: 40 years old, Period: February 20, 1938, Location: London, UK Government) Resignation as Foreign Secretary (Anthony Eden, Age: 40 years old, Period: February 20, 1938, Location: London, UK) Munich Crisis / Munich Agreement (Age: 41 years old, Period: September 1938, Location: Munich, Germany)
1939	Outbreak of World War II (Age: 42 years old, Period: September 1–3, 1939, Location: Poland, London)
1940	Eden's Return as Wartime Foreign Secretary (Age: 43 years old, Period: December 1940 – May 1945, Location: London, UK Government) Appointment as Foreign Secretary during World War II (Anthony Eden, Age: 43 years old, Period: December 1940 – July 1945, Location: London, UK Government)
1951	Post-war Return as Foreign Secretary (Age: 54 years old, Period: October 1951 – April 1955, Location: London, UK Government)
1952	Marriage (Anthony Eden, Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, Age: 55 years old, Period: August 14, 1952, Location: Caxton Hall (London))
1955	Appointment as Prime Minister (Anthony Eden, Age: 57 years old, Period: April 6, 1955, Location: London, UK) 1955 General Election (Anthony Eden, Age: 57 years old, Period: May 26, 1955, Location: Throughout the UK)
1956	Suez Crisis (Age: 59 years old, Period: July – December 1956, Location: Egypt, Suez Canal, London, Paris, Washington, D.C.) Nationalization of the Suez Canal (Age: 59 years old, Period: July 26, 1956, Location: Cairo and Suez Canal, Egypt) Suez Crisis (Age: 59 years old, Period: October – December 1956, Location: Suez Canal Region, Egypt) Suez Crisis and Anglo-French Military Intervention (Age: 59 years old, Period: October – November 1956, Location: Sinai Peninsula and Suez Canal Region, Egypt)
1957	Resignation as Prime Minister after the Suez Crisis (Anthony Eden, Age: 59 years old, Period: January 9, 1957, Location: London, UK) Resignation as Prime Minister (Anthony Eden, Age: 59 years old, Period: January 9, 1957, Location: London, UK)
1961	Creation as Earl of Avon (Age: 64 years old, Period: July 3, 1961, Location: London, UK)
1977	Death of Anthony Eden (Age: 79 years old, Period: January 14, 1977)

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British Politics	David Lloyd George Winston Churchill Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Clement Attlee Anthony Eden Edward Wood Ernest Bevin
French Politics	Georges Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle Paul Reynaud Édouard Daladier Léon Blum Philippe Pétain Maxime Weygand Maurice Gamelin
Jewish relief	Anne Frank Etty Hillesum Edith Stein Raoul Wallenberg Aristides de Sousa Mendes Varian Fry Nicholas Winton Chiune Sugihara
Nuclear Science	Lise Meitner James Chadwick John Cockcroft Ernest Walton Patrick Blackett Mark Oliphant Otto Hahn Otto Robert Frisch

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