1935 in the United Kingdom

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Prime Minister
• * Ramsay MacDonald
• * Stanley Baldwin
• Parliament
• * 36th
• * 37th

  Events

• 1 January – Ramblers' Association founded.
• 21 February – the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine is first flown, at Hucknall Aerodrome.
• 26 February – Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar, at Daventry.
• 6 March – Croydon Aerodrome robbery: £21,000 worth of gold is stolen and never recovered.
• 12 March – speed limit in built-up areas reduced to 30 mph.
• 18 March – Britain protests at Germany's introduction of conscription.
• April – reflective cat's-eyes first used on British roads.
• 6 May – silver jubilee celebrations for King George V.
• 14 May – Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win will not be until 29 May 1939.
• 19 May – canonization of Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More by Pope Pius XI.
• 22 May – the government announces plans to triple the size of the Royal Air Force in the next two years, partly in response to German re-armament.
• 1 June – the driving test becomes compulsory.
• 6 June – Alfred Hitchcock's film of The 39 Steps released in the UK.
• 7 June – Ramsay MacDonald retires; Stanley Baldwin takes over as Prime Minister.
• 18 June – Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
• 12 July – rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange parades; by the end of August eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed.
• 13 July – official completion of the London County Council's Becontree estate in East London, the largest housing estate in the world, consisting of some 27,000 new council houses which are home to more than 100,000 people. The first families moved to the estate, which straddles the borders of Dagenham, Barking and Ilford, in 1921.
• 29 July – T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation, two months after his death resulting from a motorcycle accident.
• 30 July – Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain.
• 18 August – last service held in Mardale church in the Lake District prior to the village's flooding to create Manchester Corporation's Haweswater Reservoir.
• 3 September – Malcolm Campbell breaks the 300 mph barrier for the first time and sets a new land speed record of at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, driving the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird.
• 12 September – an underground explosion at North Gawber colliery, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, kills nineteen.
• 30 September – the London and North Eastern Railway begins to run the Silver Jubilee train between London King's Cross and Newcastle, Britain's first streamliner, using Nigel Gresley's LNER Class A4 steam locomotives.
• October – first steel produced from new works at Corby.
• 8 October – Clement Attlee is appointed as interim leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury who has resigned due to a wish to maintain his Christian pacifist principles.
• 21 October – Grant v Australian Knitting Mills, a landmark case in consumer law, decided on appeal in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
• 4 November – opening of Hornsey Town Hall, London, designed by Reginald Uren, the first major UK building in the International style.
• 6 November – maiden flight of the Royal Air Force's Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft, at Brooklands.
• 14 November – in the general election, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority. This election begins the modern tradition of the Speaker of the House of Commons seeking re-election as such rather than under a party label.
• 26 November
• * In the Labour Party leadership election, Clement Attlee is confirmed as leader.
• * Release of Scrooge, the first all-talking full-length film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Sir Seymour Hicks in the title rôle.
• 10 December
• * James Chadwick wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the neutron."
• * 1935 SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crash at Tatsfield: all eleven on board the flight are killed.
• 12 December – opening of The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff in the International style.
• 18 December – Samuel Hoare resigns as foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.

  Undated

• Bede sanctified by the Catholic Church.
• Rowntree's of York produce their first Chocolate Crisp bars, which will in 1937 be renamed Kit Kat.
• Leicestershire County Cricket Club appoints Ewart Astill as their captain for the season, the first professional cricketer to lead any county on a regular basis since the 19th century.
• Bahram wins the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.

  Publications

• Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet.
• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels Three Act Tragedy and Death in the Clouds.
• Graham Greene's novel England Made Me.
• Georgette Heyer's Regency romance Regency Buck.
• Christopher Isherwood's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains.
• John Masefield's novel The Box of Delights.
• George Orwell's novel A Clergyman's Daughter.
• Marion Richardson's teaching guides Writing and Writing Patterns.
• Caroline Spurgeon's study Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us.
• P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

  Births

• 3 January – David Vine, television presenter
• 18 January – Jon Stallworthy, poet
• 19 January – Robin Birley, archaeologist
• 24 January – Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer
• 25 January – J. G. Farrell, novelist
• 27 January
• *Gillian Beer, academic and critic
• *D. M. Thomas, novelist, poet and translator
• 28 January – David Lodge, novelist
• 30 January – Stuart Wheeler, financier and political activist
• 31 January – Andrew Sinclair, polymath
• 5 February – Alex Harvey, Scottish rock musician
• 7 February – Cliff Jones, Welsh footballer
• 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician
• 17 February – Christina Pickles, actress
• 27 February – Anne Treisman, psychologist
• 10 March – Peter Rolfe Vaughan, engineer
• 13 March – David Nobbs, comic writer
• 21 March – Brian Clough, footballer and football manager
• 23 March – Barry Cryer, comedian
• 27 March
• *Sir Angus Farquharson of Finzean, peer
• *Julian Glover, actor
• 28 March – Michael Parkinson, journalist and television presenter
• 29 March – Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer
• 5 April – Donald Lynden-Bell, astrophysicist
• 8 April – Guy Lyon Playfair, British writer
• 19 April – Dudley Moore, comedian, actor and musician
• 25 April – April Ashley, model
• 5 May – Eddie Linden, poet
• 8 May – Jack Charlton, footballer
• 10 May – Terrance Dicks, television writer
• 11 May – Chris Perrins, English biologist, ornithologist and academic
• 14 May – Mel Charles, Welsh footballer
• 17 May – Dennis Potter, writer
• 23 May – Julian Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell, politician
• 27 May – Roger Owen, British historian
• 28 May
• * Anne Reid, actress
• * Richard Van Allen, opera singer
• 1 June – Norman Foster, architect and designer
• 2 June – Roger Brierley, actor
• 3 June – Raoul Franklin, physicist and academic
• 5 June – Anne Pashley, track and field sprinter and operatic soprano
• 12 June – Jane Freeman, actress
• 18 June – John Spencer, snooker player
• 19 June – Derren Nesbitt, actor
• 23 June – Keith Burkinshaw, professional footballer, football manager
• 25 June – Tony Lanfranchi, racing driver
• 27 June – Colin Bazley, bishop
• 28 June
• * Roy Faulkner, footballer
• * John Inman, comic actor
• * Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell, rugby union player
• 29 June – Derek Partridge, actor, television presenter, spokesman and voice-over artist
• 30 June
• *Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis
• *Les Savill, cricketer
• 1 July – David Prowse, weightlifter and film performer
• 5 July – Shirley Collins, folk singer
• 7 July – Billy Russell, footballer
• 9 July – Michael Williams, actor
• 11 July – Oliver Napier, politician
• 15 July – William G. Stewart, television producer and presenter
• 16 July – James Bolam, actor
• 19 July – David Parry-Evans, Royal Air Force commander
• 20 July – Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, real estate developer, art collector and connoisseur of architecture
• 24 July – Les Reed, songwriter
• 27 July – Billy McCullough, footballer
• 28 July – Simon Dee, television presenter
• 10 August – Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby, British politician, numismatist
• 13 August – Rod Hull, entertainer
• 18 September – John Spencer, English snooker player
• 21 September – Jimmy Armfield, footballer
• 28 September
• *Ronald Lacey, English actor
• *Alan Shepherd, motorcycle racer
• 29 September
• *David Daker, actor
• *Bruce Tulloh, long-distance runner
• 1 October – Julie Andrews, born Julia Wells, singer and actress
• 9 October – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• 10 October – Judith Chalmers, television presenter
• 20 October – Roy Bailey, folk singer
• 5 November
• *Nicholas Maw, composer
• *Lester Piggott, jockey
• 12 November – William Tallon, Steward and Page of the Backstairs; servant of 50 years to the British Royal family
• 13 November – George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 14 November – Michael Busselle, photographer and author
• 27 November - Verity Lambert, television producer
• 10 December – Terry Allcock, footballer and cricketer
• 14 December – Anthony Wilden, author and social theorist, translator of Jaques Lacan
• 15 December – Jim Iley, football player and manager
• 18 December – Rosemary Leach, actress
• 23 December – Johnny Kidd, English rock and roll singer-songwriter

  Deaths

• 7 February – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish-born writer; peritonitis
• 15 February – Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japanologist
• 16 March – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 27 March – Francis Rattenbury, architect; murdered
• 5 April – Basil Champneys, architect
• 20 April – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer
• 18 May – T. E. Lawrence, soldier; motorcycle accident
• 6 June – George Grossmith, Jr., musical comedy performer and producer
• 21 August – John Hartley, tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon
• 28 September – W. K. Dickson, cinematographic pioneer
• 29 September – Winifred Holtby, novelist; Bright's disease
• 20 October – Arthur Henderson, Scottish-born politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 20 November – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, admiral
• 3 December – Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII
• 10 December
• *Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet, tank and vehicle designer
• *Sir Alfred Sharpe, colonial governor
• 30 December – Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, politician and judge