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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1930 AD until 1949 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
29 July – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada. 7 August – two million people are unemployed. 16 August – the first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [6] 29 August – remaining inhabitants of the island of St Kilda, Scotland, are voluntarily evacuated to the mainland. [8]
It was the first ever Silver Jubilee celebration of any British monarch in history. The "Great Purge" of "Old Bolsheviks" from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union takes place from 1936 to 1938, as ordered by Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people being killed. This purge was due to mistrust and ...
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.
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A military history of Britain: from 1775 to the present (2008). Bradford, James C. ed. International Encyclopedia of Military History (2 vol. 2006). Brownstone, David and Irene Franck. Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003)
26 January — British submarine HMS M2 sinks off the Dorset coast with all sixty hands. 1-29 February — with an average precipitation of 9.5 millimetres or 0.37 inches, this period constitutes the driest calendar month over the United Kingdom as a whole since records began in 1836. [2]