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| 1936 |
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| John Maynard Keynes published General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, advocating government interference in the economy to moderate the business cycle. His theories were not incorporated into government policy in Great Britain, however. | 1 |
| Allen Lane founded Penguin Books, starting the paperback revolution. | 2 |
| As a result of the collaboration of Guglielmo Marconi with the Russian-born researcher Isaac Schoenberg, the world's first regular television service was opened by the BBC at Alexandra Palace. | 3 |
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| April 30 |
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| The government announced plans for the construction of 38 warships, the largest building program since 1921. | 4 |
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| Dec. 10 |
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| Abdication of Edward VIII, the first voluntary abdication in British history. The Baldwin ministry and the dominion governments had refused to consent to a morganatic marriage between the king and Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American-born woman whose second divorce had not yet become final. Edward, apparently at odds with his ministers on other matters also (social policy, etc.), insisted on his right to shape his own life and abdicated rather than abandon his plan. He became Duke of Windsor and in June 1937 married Mrs. Simpson in France. | 5 |
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