1936

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1933 1934 1935 – 1936 – 1937 1938 1939

Births [change]

January 15 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
January 16 – Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing
January 20 – Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of the United Kingdom, King of Ireland and Emperor of India.
January 24 – Albert Serraut's government begins in France.
January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 4 – Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
February 10-15 – Italian troops defeat Abyssinian army in Enderta
From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
February 19 – Manuel Aznar's government begins in Spain
February 26 – 1400 Japanese soldiers invade government offices in Tokyo. They demand arrest of general Kazushige Ugaki and that general Sadao Araki made head of the Kwantung Army and death of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, the minister of Finance and Inspector General of Military Education
February 29 – Emperor Hirohito orders Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices – 19 of them are executed in July.
December 11 – King Edward VIII gives up his throne to marry the woman he loves.

"The Way You Look Tonight" – by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern, from the movie Swing Time, won the Academy Award for the best song.