1932 in The United Kingdom - Events

Events

• 8 January - The Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees.
• 24 January - Inmates at Dartmoor Prison mutiny.
• 26 January - British submarine HMS M2 sinks off the Dorset coast with all fifty hands.
• 4 February–15 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York but do not win any medals.

• 1 March - Import Duties Act re-establishes protective trade tariffs.
• 15 March - First broadcast from the newly opened BBC Broadcasting House.
• 6 April - Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance.
• 13 April - Mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a willful trespass by ramblers at Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of England, to protest against lack of free public access to open country.
• 23 April - New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon. Designed by Elisabeth Scott, it is the country's first important work by a woman architect.
• 1 May - Protestors and police clash in Hyde Park, London, during a May day protest against Japan's attitude towards China when they try to march on the Japanese Embassy.
• 10 May - James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
• 26 May - The Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.
• 4 July - George Carwardine patents the Anglepoise lamp.
• 12 July - Hedley Verity of Yorkshire establishes a new first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
• 19 July - King George V opens the replacement Lambeth Bridge.
• 30 July–14 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
• 1 August - Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory.
• 22 August - First experimental television broadcast by the BBC.
• 20 September - Methodist Union: The Methodist Church is formed in Britain by merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodist Church.
• 26 September - First contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.
• October - Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
• 3 October - The Times newspaper first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.
• 7 October - Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
• 13 October - Britain grants independence to Iraq in exchange for a restrictive long-term military alliance.
• 27 October - Arrival of the Hunger March in London leads to several violent clashes with police.
• 14 November - Book tokens go on sale in the UK.
• 30 November - The BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir Edward Elgar.
• 2 December - English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: Opening of the 'bodyline' series.
• 5 December - The comic strip character Jane first appears in the Daily Mirror.
• 10 December
  • John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".
  • Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".
• 19 December - The BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting.
• 25 December - King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message.