1950: Margaret Hilda Roberts, the Conservative candidate for Dartford, on her way to a garden party at Buckingham Palace, in London
1959: Margaret Thatcher, 33, MP for Finchley and Friern Barnet, with her twin children, Carol and Mark, aged 6, at their home in Farnborough, Kent
1975: Margaret Thatcher in her Chelsea home kitchen before making her challenge for the Conservative Party leadership and place in history
1979: Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher arrives at Tory headquarters in London after winning the 1979 general election
1979: Steel workers take to the streets of Consett in protest against the propsed closure of the Consett Steelworks. The site eventually closed in 1980 with the loss of 3,700 jobs
1980: Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher sharing a joke with England footballers, left to right, Kevin Keegan, Terry McDermott, Phil Thompson and Emlyn Hughes at 10 Downing Street
1982: Britain goes to war with Argentina after the invasion of the Falkland Islands
1982: HMS Antelope is sunk when a bomb from an Argentine aircraft detonated while the frigate was defending British troops landing on the Falklands
1983: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to well-wishers after securing a second term in office. The Tories won the June election with a landslide majority of 144, but their share of the vote dropped from 44 to 42 per cent
1984: Margaret Thatcher survives the IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, which killed five
1984: Queen Elizabeth II, American President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Buckingham Palace
1984: March by trade unionists through Central London in support of the miners. Miners' leader Arthur Scargill, centre, joined the march with Labour MP Tony Benn
1985: The miners's strike comes to an end and Mrs Thatcher claims "a famous victory". Thousands of miners went on to lose their jobs as pits closed around the country.
1985: Margaret Thatcher with Queen Elizabeth II prior to a dinner at 10 Downing Street
1987: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher giving a three-fingered salute outside 10 Downing Street as she begins her third successive term of office following the Conservative victory in the general election
1992: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher standing alone at San Carlos cemetery to remember the servicemen who lost their lives in the Falklands
2009: Baroness Thatcher standing next to a portrait of herself at 10 Downing Street
2013: A card on flowers laid outside the home of Baroness Margaret Thatcher in Belgravia, London, simply reads 'The Iron Lady'