1936 in the United Kingdom

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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 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]

The Instrument of Abdication

• 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

See also