TIMELINE-Gordon Brown's first 11 months

CREWE (Reuters) - After a good start, Gordon Brown wavered last Autumn over calling a general election and has had precious little luck as Prime Minister ever since.

Here is a short chronology of his first 11 months:

June 24, 2007 - As incoming prime minister, he vows to renew the government and learn lessons from the war in Iraq. He takes over from Tony Blair on June 27.

June 30 - The country is put on "critical" alert status -- the highest level of terrorist threat warning -- after two car bombs are discovered in London and two men crash a jeep into Glasgow airport.

September 14 - Northern Rock says the Bank of England has stepped in to provide support, triggering the first run on a major British bank in over a century following the U.S. subprime market crisis.

October 7 - Brown rules out an early election in what the Conservatives call a humiliating retreat after polls show his lead over them had evaporated.

2008

Feb 18 - Brown faces a political and public backlash a day after his decision to take Northern Rock into public ownership, the first UK nationalisation since the 1970s.

April 22 - Backbench Labour MPs threaten to revolt over the abolition in Brown's last Budget as Chancellor of the 10p rate of income tax which hit many of the lowest-paid workers.