1933 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935

Sport

1933 English cricket season

Football England | Scotland

Events from the year 1933 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition

Events

• 2 April - in a Cricket test match against New Zealand, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record score of 336 runs.^[1]
• 3 April - The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale leads an expedition to be the first to fly an aircraft over Mount Everest.
• 2 May - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
• 1 July - London Passenger Transport Board established, unifying multiple earlier services.^[2]
• 15 July - signature of the Four-Power Pact by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.^[1]
• 12 August - Winston Churchill makes his first public speech warning of the dangers of German rearmament.^[2]
• 21 December - Newfoundland returned to Crown Colony status following financial collapse.^[2]

Undated

• British Interplanetary Society founded.
• London Passenger Transport Board founded.
• Norman Angell wins the Nobel Peace Prize.^[3]
• The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.^[1]

Publications

• George Orwell's book Down and Out in Paris and London.^[1]
• H.G. Wells' novel The Shape of Things to Come.
• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Lord Edgware Dies.

Births

• 18 January - David Bellamy, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner
• 18 January - John Boorman, film director
• 6 February - Leslie Crowther, television comedian and game show host
• 7 February - John Anderton, footballer
• February 8 - Donald Burgess, track cyclist
• 22 February - Katharine, The Duchess of Kent
• 14 March - Michael Caine, actor
• 17 March - Penelope Lively, novelist
• 4 April - Brian Hewson, track and field athlete
• 6 April - Roy Goode, legal academic
• 16 April - Joan Bakewell, broadcaster
• 24 April - Claire Davenport, actress (died 2002)
• 10 May - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer
• 23 May - Joan Collins, actress
• 25 May - Ray Spencer, footballer
• 6 July - Frank Austin, footballer
• 15 July - Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
• 2 August - Tom Bell, actor (died 2006)
• 10 August - Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, judge
• 21 August - Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
• 21 August - Barry Norman, film critic
• 8 September - Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist
• 9 October - Peter Mansfield, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 24 October - Kray twins, gangsters

Deaths

• 31 January - John Galsworthy, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
• 22 April - Henry Royce, car manufacturer (born 1863)
• 20 November - Augustine Birrell, author and politician (born 1850)
• 26 December - Henry Watson Fowler, lexicographer (born 1858)

References

See also