TIMELINE: U.S. presidential visits to Britain

(Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Britain on Sunday on the final stop of a European farewell tour.

Here are some details of some major U.S. presidential visits to Britain in the past 100 years.

1918 - Woodrow Wilson comes to Europe after the end of World War One and spends several days with King George V at Buckingham Palace, the monarch's London residence, the first American president to stay there.

1959 - Dwight D. Eisenhower makes an informal visit to meet Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth.

1961 - John F. Kennedy makes a private visit to the queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

1969 - Richard Nixon dines with the queen and visits Prime Minister Harold Wilson in February. In August, Nixon returns for an informal meeting at Mildenhall U.S. Air Force Base.

1977 - Jimmy Carter attends an economic summit and addresses a NATO ministers' meeting.

1982 - Ronald Reagan stays at Windsor Castle, the Queen's residence, near London. The Queen and Reagan go riding. Reagan addresses members of both Houses of Parliament and meets Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

-- Reagan also visits in 1984 and 1988.

1989 - George H.W. Bush meets Thatcher in June and visits again in 1990 and 1991 to attend NATO and economic summits.

1994 - Bill Clinton goes to Oxford University, where as a student he protested against the Vietnam War, to receive an honorary degree.

-- Clinton visits several times up to December 2000 including helping to seal a 1998 peace deal in Northern Ireland.

2003 - George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair hold their third Iraq war summit, near Belfast.

-- November - Bush spends three nights at Buckingham Palace as guest of the Queen. Bush and Blair seal their alliance with fish and chips at Blair's neighborhood pub in his Sedgefield constituency in the north of England.

2005 - In July, Bush attends the G-8 Economic Summit at Gleneagles in Scotland. Suicide bomb attacks on London's transport system during the summit killed 52 people.

2008 - Bush arrives for a two-day visit to Britain and will meet queen and tour Windsor Castle. He will also hold talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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