1936 in the United Kingdom

1936 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1936 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom (until 20 January), Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (until 11 December), George VI of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, national coalition

Events

* 20 January - King George V dies at Sandringham House, Norfolk. His eldest son, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales succeeds as King Edward VIII.
* 21 January - King Edward VIII breaks royal protocol by watching the proclamation of his own accession to the throne from a window of St. James's Palace, in the company of the still-married Wallis Simpson.
* 6 February16 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and win 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals.
* 5 March - First test flight of the Supermarine Spitfire.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 380-381|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 27 May - The RMS "Queen Mary" leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.
* June - First Butlins holiday camp opens, in Skegness.
* 16 July - George McMahon tries to shoot King Edward VIII during the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
* 24 July - The General Post Office introduces the speaking clock.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 1 August16 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 3 bronze medals.
* 26 August - signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 which required the withdrawal of British troops, and Egypt was recognised as a sovereign state.
* 30 September - official opening of Pinewood Studios.
* 5 October - Jarrow March: 207 miners march from Jarrow to London in a protest against unemployment and poverty.
* 11 October - Battle of Cable Street between Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and anti-fascist demonstrators.
* 27 October - Wallis Simpson divorces Ernest Aldrich Simpson allowing her to marry Edward VIII.
* 31 October - Elizabeth Cowell becomes the first female British television presenter making a broadcast from Alexandra Palace.
* 2 November - BBC launch world's first regular television service.
* 30 November - The Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire.
* December - Henry Hallett Dale wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Otto Loewi "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1936/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936|accessdate=2008-01-29]
* 10 December - Abdication crisis- The King signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent.
* 11 December
** Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936, providing the legislative authority for the King to abdicate.
** The King performs his last act as sovereign by giving royal assent to the Act.
** Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, ruling as King George VI.
** The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH The Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate. He leaves the country for Austria.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels "The A.B.C. Murders", "Murder in Mesopotamia" and "Cards on the Table".
* Aldous Huxley's novel "Eyeless in Gaza".
* George Orwell's novel "Keep the Aspidistra Flying".

Births

* 9 February - Clive Swift, actor
* 2 May - Engelbert Humperdinck, singer
* 9 May
** Albert Finney, actor
** Glenda Jackson, actress and politician
* 17 August - Arthur Rowe, English shot putter (died 2003)
* 24 August - A. S. Byatt, novelist and poet
* 24 October - Bill Wyman, rock guitarist
* 25 December - Princess Alexandra of Kent, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent

Deaths

* 18 January - Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
* 20 January - King George V (born 1865)
* 2 March - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (born 1876, Malta)
* 30 April - A. E. Housman, poet (born 1859)
* 14 June - G. K. Chesterton, English author (born 1874)
* 21 September - Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (born 1863)
* 2 November - Martin Lowry, chemist (born 1874)
* 10 December - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (born 1857)

* Edmond Holmes, writer and poet (born 1850)

References

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