1936 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1936 in the United Kingdom.
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- January 20- King George V dies at Sandringham House, Norfolk. His eldest son, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales succeeds as King Edward VIII.
- January 21- 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
- May 27 - The RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York
- July 16 – George McMahon tries to shoot King Edward VIII during the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
- November 2 - BBC launch world's first regular (then) high definition television service.
- November 30 - The Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire
- December 10- 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.
- December 11-
- 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
- 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". [1]
[edit] Births
- May 2 - Engelbert Humperdinck
- December 25- Princess Alexandra of Kent, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- January 20 - King George V (b. 1865)
- March 2 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria
- 30 April - A. E. Housman, poet (b. 1859)
- June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
- 2 November - Martin Lowry, chemist (b. 1874)
- December 10 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
- Edmond Holmes, writer and poet (b. 1850)
