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| 1967 |
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| Abortion laws liberalized (among the earliest in Europe). The 1967 Abortion Act authorized abortions up to the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy (in certain special cases) and provided for abortion under the National Health Service. | 1 |
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| Feb. 6–13 |
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| Soviet Premier Aleksey Kosygin visited Britain. Discussions of a possible British-Soviet treaty of friendship and cooperation were hampered by continued differences over American policy in Vietnam. | 2 |
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| April 10–15 |
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| The Conservatives won a large majority of the seats on the Great London Council, reflecting rapidly developing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party. | 3 |
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| May 11 |
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| Formal application of the British government for membership in the European Common Market again vetoed by French president Charles de Gaulle (May 16). | 4 |
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| Nov. 18 |
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| Devaluation of the pound sterling, from $2.80 to $2.40, in the hope of checking the decline in balance of payments. | 5 |
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