J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Wall Street Crashes

  • Mohandas Gandhi leads a march to the sea in protest against the Indian salt monopoly

  • Mohandas Gandhi agrees to suspend civil disobedience in India

  • Scottish Nationalist Party is founded to fight for an independent Scotland

  • Gresford Mine Disaster kills 266 in North Wales

  • Italy, France and Britain meet to discuss German rearmament

  • Conservative Stanley Baldwin becomes prime minister for the third time

  • First Penguin paperbacks go on sale

  • George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII

  • The Hobbit is published

    The Hobbit is published