1926 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1926 in the United Kingdom.

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16 January - BBC radio play about worker's revolution causes a panic in London.
27 January - John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system in London. ^[1]
31 January - British and Belgian troops leave Cologne.
9 February - Flooding of London suburbs.
6 March - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.
1 May - Coal miner's strike begins in Britain.
3 May - UK General Strike of 1926: General strike begins in support of the coal strike.
4 May - The BBC broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers published due to the general strike.
9 May - Martial law in Britain because of the general strike.
10 May - Talks between government and strikers begin.
12 May - a general strike by trade unions ends.
25 July - BBC history: The previously experimental long-wave station 5XX moves from Chelmsford to Daventry and becomes the first station to achieve near national coverage. The Daventry station will later become the main transmitter of the BBC National Programme.
6 August - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England.
18 August - British miners' union begins negotiations with the government.
12 October - British miners agree to end their strike
2 December - The Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike.
3 December - Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on 14 December she is found in Harrogate hotel.

12 July - Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
25 September - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster and theologian (b. 1838)