Events
- 1 January - Establishment of The National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.
- 21 January - Ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley.
- 27 March - The Betting and Lotteries Act is passed, prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets, primarily directed against the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake.
- April - Meccano Ltd introduce the first Dinky Toys.
- 1 April - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
- 3 April - Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.
- 6 April - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
- 4 May - Fifty-four year old grandmother Mrs G. E. Alington becomes the first woman in Britain to complete a parachute jump, skydiving from 1500 feet over Brooklands Aerodrome.
- 28 May - Opening of first Glyndebourne Festival Opera season.
- 29 May - First regular domestic airmail service, inaugurated by Highland Airways between Inverness and Kirkwall.
- 18 July - Opening of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey by King George V.
- 19 July - 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program.
- 4–11 August - British Empire Games held in London.
- 10 September - The British Graham Land Expedition sets out to explore Graham Land in Antarctica.
- 22 September - Gresford Disaster: A gas explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales, which leads to the death of 266 miners and rescuers, one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history.
- 26 September - Launching of the liner RMS Queen Mary.
- 29 September - Stanley Matthews makes his debut for the England national football team, beginning a record 23-year international career.
- 29 November - Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, the first this century, and last, foreign-born princess to marry into the British royal family; the wedding is the first to be broadcast live on radio.
- 10 December - Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
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