Events from the year 1934 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch - George V
Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition
Events
1 January - Establishment of The National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.
21 January - Ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley.
27 March - The Betting and Lotteries Act is passed, prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets, primarily directed against the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake.
April
Meccano Ltd introduce the first Dinky Toys.
David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.
3 April - Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.
6 April - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
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