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Unemployed English workers march for 26 days from Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, to demonstrate at Westminster
Wallis Simpson wins a decree nisi against her second husband and is therefore free to marry Edward VIII
Hitler and Mussolini form an axis, or alliance, causing Germany and Italy to become known as the Axis powers
Francisco Franco is elected head of state of the insurgent Nationalist Spain, at this time controlling only a fraction of the country
The British Broadcasting Corporation puts out its first high-definition public television broadcast
The first volunteers in the International Brigade arrive in Spain to fight for the Republican cause in the civil war
The Spanish Civil War causes the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga to move his business to Paris, capital of the fashion world
Edward VIII informs Baldwin, the UK prime minister, that he intends to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson
Edward VIII, forced to choose between the British throne and Wallis Simpson, opts for the path of love and abdicates
Edward VIII is succeeded on the British throne by his brother, as George VI
Hungarian photographer Robert Capa achieves an unprecedented immediacy in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War
French film director Jean Renoir makes La Grande Illusion, set in World War I
Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism
The Nationalist leader in Spain, Francisco Franco, merges Falange with other right-wing parties to form the Movimento
German planes bomb the Basque capital, Guernica, in support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War
British artist Ben Nicholson does the first of his characteristic abstract white reliefs
William Walton writes Crown Imperial for the coronation of George VI
Neville Chamberlain follows Baldwin as prime minister at the head of the UK's National government
German-born British scientist Hans Krebs discovers the biochemical cycle that becomes known by his name
Danish author Karen Blixen publishes her autobiographical novel Out of Africa
At the same time as the Moscow show trials, millions are purged from the Russian Communist party nation-wide
C.S. Forester's central character, Horatio Hornblower, features for the first time – in The Happy Return
Alan Turing describes the properties of a logically possible computer that becomes known as the Turing Machine
Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris
Adolf Hitler, entertaining Mussolini in Germany, puts on spectacular demonstrations of German military and industrial might
