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Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1940)

Born
March 18, 1869
Died
November 9, 1940
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1869

About Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940. Joseph Chamberlain had had another son, Austen Chamberlain, by his first marriage.

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The world when Neville Chamberlain was born

Neville Chamberlain was born in 1869. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1869

  • Best-selling bookWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineTranscontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Summit
  • Technology milestoneSuez Canal opens
  • World population~1.49B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderUlysses S. Grant
  • U.S. population35.6M

1869 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Neville Chamberlain's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18692026
Population35.6M341 million

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