Brexit Timeline: From the Referendum to Article 50
Theresa May will trigger Brexit 40 weeks after Britons voted to leave the EU. Here’s what you need to know about everything that’s happened since.
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Back in June 2016, U.K. voters chose to leave the European Union. Soon afterwards Theresa May became prime minister and began stitching together a plan for the divorce. With the triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, that split is now under way.
Since then, politics in Britain has been busy and unusual. Here’s a reminder of the key events between referendum day and the firing of the starting gun.