1776: Received his MA from Cambridge.
1778: His father made a speech in the House of Lords and Pitt who was in the gallery rushed down to help carry his dying father home.
1780: Failed to win a seat at Cambridge in the General Election.
1781: With the help of Sir James Lowther, Pitt became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Appleby-in-Westmoreland. His maiden speech was described by Lord North, later to become Prime Minister, as the best speech he had ever heard.
1782: Pitt supported a motion which would shorten the hours worked in Parliament and measures which would reduce the chances of government ministers being bribed. Lord North's government fell in March and was replaced by Rockingham's Whig Government.
1783: Pitt resigned and declared that he had no connections with the party whatsoever.
1784: Pitt had now built up a reputation in the country and called a General Election. Pitt stood for Cambridge University and Fox duly lost 160 of his supporters when the vote came around.
1785: Pitt proposed a Bill to remove thirty six rotten boroughs. He proposed seventy two seats in areas were populations were rising.
1790: At the General Election Pitt turned his eyes towards France.
1791: The Canada Act established a division between the English and the French.
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