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Events from the year 1936 in the United Kingdom.
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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 February–16 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.1
- 27 May - The RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.
- June - First Butlins holiday camp opens, in Skegness.1
- 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.2
- 1 August–16 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.2
- 30 September - official opening of Pinewood Studios.2
- 5 October - Jarrow March: 207 miners march from Jarrow to London in a protest against unemployment and poverty.2
- 11 October - Battle of Cable Street between Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and anti-fascist demonstrators.1
- 27 October - Wallis Simpson divorces Ernest Aldrich Simpson allowing her to marry Edward VIII.2
- 31 October - Elizabeth Cowell becomes the first female British television presenter making a broadcast from Alexandra Palace.2
- 2 November - BBC launch world's first regular television service.1
- 30 November - The Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire.2
- 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".3
- 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.2
- 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 June - Ken Loach, British film director
- 1 August - Donald Neilson, British serial killer known as the Black Panther
- 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
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 380-381. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936". Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
See also
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