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Historical timeline
1692 - 1750
1751 - 1800
1801 - 1850
1851 - 1900
1901 - 1950
1951 - Today
| Event | Date | Event |
| London’s Foreign Exchange Market re-opens | 1951 | |
| 1952 | Accession of Elizabeth II | |
| Everest climbed | 1953 | |
First Premium Bond draw |
1957 | Macmillan Prime Minister Treaty of Rome |
| EEC formed Decision to build new head office |
1958 | Hovercraft invented |
First out of town branch opened in Eton |
1961 | Kennedy becomes US president |
| 1962 | First James Bond film | |
| Kennedy assassinated | 1963 | Accounts system computerised |
| Death of Churchill | 1965 | |
Cultural revolution in China |
1966 | England wins the World Cup |
Fleet Street branch opened |
1967 | QE2 launched |
NatWest created |
1969 | First man on the moon |
Planning permission granted for new head office |
1973 | Noel Coward dies |
Work begins on the new 440 Strand building |
1974 | Watergate scandal |
David Money-Coutts becomes Chairman |
1976 | National Theatre opens |
| 1977 | Silver Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II | |
| Queen Elizabeth II opens new 440 Strand building | 1978 | |
| 1981 | First space shuttle flight | |
| Compulsory wearing of seat belts in front seats of cars in U.K. | 1983 | |
| 1985 | Spain re-opens the Gibraltarian border | |
| ‘Big Bang’ in the City of London | 1986 | |
Coutts & Co (Suisse) opened in Geneva |
1987 | U.K. Stock Market crash |
| 1989 | The Berlin Wall falls | |
| Gulf War | 1991 | |
Coutts Tercentenary |
1992 | Earth Summit in Brazil |
Sir David Money-Coutts retired |
1993 | Bill Clinton becomes U.S. President Sir Ewen Fergusson became Chariman |
| Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa Coutts Group formed |
1994 | Channel Tunnel opens |
Hong Kong returned to China |
1997 | Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister |
| 1999 | The Earl of Home became Chairman | |
| Draft of complete human genome produced in the U.S.A. | 2000 | Acquisition of NatWest by Royal Bank of Scotland |
| Al-Qaeda attacks on World Trade Centre and Pentagon | 2001 | |
| 2002 | Golden Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II |