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Events
18 October 1941: Tim Bell Born
1964: Bell's father dies in South Africa
1961: Bell's stepfather serves as Mayor or Marylebone
1959: Bell's first job at ABC as a chart boy
1961: Bell moves into advertising
1966: Bell starts at Geers Gross
1964/65? Marries Sue
14 Sep 1970: Saatchi & Saatchi launches
1978: S&S wins Torie account
11 Feb 1975: Margaret Thatcher wins Conservative leadership race
August 1978: "Labour Isn't Working"
17 Jan 1979: Thatcher's "winning" party political broadcast
28 March 1979: No Confidence vote in Jim Callaghan
4 May 1979: Thatcher wins the general election
1980: Bell meets Reagan
10 June 1983: Tories win the election, again
April 1984: Bell works as PR strategist on Miners Strike
12 October 1984: Brighton Bomb
~1985: Bell leaves Saatchi for Lowe Bell
1987: Bell heads full-time into PR
~1997/8: Bell Pottinger is born
1985-6ish? Bell handles advertising for controversial Guiness takeover of Distillers
12 June 1987: A third victory for the Conservatives at the polls
1985: Bell & the Sultan of Brunei 2
1988: Bell & Jacques Chirac
1988: Bell & Chile / Pinochet
October 1989: John Major made Chancellor
November 1989: The Berlin Wall starts to fall
March 1990: Poll Tax riots
13 November 1990: Geoffrey Howe resigns
20 November 1990: Thatcher wins first round of Tories leadership voting
22 November 1990: Thatcher resigns
1990s: Bell & De Klerk
11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela is released from prison
2 February 1990: The ANC is unbanned
11 November 1988: Bell's daughter Daisy is born
1992: Bell's son Harry is born
27 November 1990: John Major is elected leader of the Tories
27 April 1994: First democratic vote in South Africa
5 March 1991: Bell is knighted
1998: Bell is made a life peer, becoming Lord Bell
21 March 2006: Twitter is founded
February 2004: Facebook is founded
9 April 1992: Tories win UK general election
4 November 1980: Ronald Reagan elected US president
17 July 1980: Reagan wins Republican nomination
1994: Bell represents Conservative MP Neil Hamilton in 'cash-for-questions' scandal
January 1995: M&C Saatchi launched
21 July 1994: Labour leader John Smith dies of a heart attack
2 May 1997: Tony Blair becomes UK Prime Minister
25 August 2016: Bell resigns from Bell Pottinger, launches Sans Frontieres
1984: Bell & the Sultan of Brunei 1
1980s: Bell advises the Malaysian PM
24 September 1993: Sydney wins bid to host Olympics
1988: Bell marries Virginia Hornbrook
2012: Bell and his wife Virginia separate
18 October 2017: Bell marries his third wife
~1991: Bell represents UAE president's lawyers in BCCI scandal
July 2011: Bell Pottinger represents Rebekah Brooks in phone-hacking scandal
1996: Bell advises Boris Yeltstin ahead of Russia election
17 June 2013: Pottinger becomes chair of Bell Pottinger's Asia Operations
September 2017: Pottinger resigns as Bell Pottinger Asia splits off
12 September 2017: Bell Pottinger goes into administration
~1984: Pottinger starts at Good Relations
~1954: Piers Pottinger born
~1989: Chime Communications born
~May 2012: Bell Pottinger bought out from Chime
December 2011: Wikileaks editing scandal
~3/4 September 2017: James Henderson resigns
December 2016: Victoria Geoghegan made MD of Bell Pottinger’s financial & corporate division
April 2017: Bell Pottinger quits Gupta account
6 July 2017: Victoria Geoghegan fired
19 November 1977: Bell is arrested for exposing himself
16 October 1998: Pinochet arrested in London
5 September 2017: PRCA expels Bell Pottinger
20 March 2003: Iraq invasion begins
March 2004: Bell Pottinger wins pro-democracy Iraq account
2009: Bell Pottinger wins Bahrain brief
~December 2017: Henderson launches J&H Communications
~March 2008: Bell Pottinger wins Belarus brief
August 2006: Trafigura dumps toxic waste in Abidjan
9 November 2016: Donald Trump wins the US election
23 June 2016: UK votes YES to Brexit
2000: Berezovsky & Litvinenko both flee to the UK
1 November 2006: Litvinenko falls suddenly ill
23 November 2006: Litvinenko dies
~2002: Bell begins working for Berezovsky
23 March 2013: Berezovsky is found dead in his home
3 July 1996: Yeltsin wins the presidential run-off
2006: Bell advises Asma Al-Assad
February 2011: Bahrain and the Arab Spring
March 2011: Asma Al-Assad Vogue profile
February 2011: Arab Spring sweeps across MENA
March 2011: Bell Pottinger suspends Bahrain account during 3-month emergency
May 2011: BP wins contract with Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority
June 2011: BP wins contract with Bahrain's Mumtalakat Holding Company
January 2012: BP again wins contract with Bahrain's Economic Development Board
May 2012: BP wins contract with Bahrain's Chamber for Dispute Resolution
2014: Bell is retained by Bahrain's Economic Development Board
September 2017: Bahrain's Economic Development Board cancels its contract with BP
May 2007: BP & Iraq 'fake news' brief
June 2011: BP & Libya
2011: BP & Yemen contract ends
~2010: BP begins working with the Mubarak regime in Egypt
February 2007: Trafigura hires BP
14 February 2013: Oscar Pistorius fatally shoots and kills Reeva Steenkamp
~April 2013: BP work sfor Oscar Pistorius
5 October 1988: Augusto Pinochet is ousted in Chile Yes/No Referendum
1973: Augusto Pinochet comes to power in Chile in a coup
14 December 1989: Chile votes in Patricio Aylwin
1989: Bell advises Chile's right ahead of vote
16 October 1998: Pinochet is arrested in London
March 2000: Pinochet released
Periods
1953 - 1959: Bell attends Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Barnet
Falklands War
March 1984 - 5: Miners Strike
Aug 1990 - Feb 1991: First Gulf War
Deepwater Horizon spill
Chilean Mining Crisis
