| 6-7th January 1928 | The River Thames floods in London; fourteen people drown. |
11th February 1928 | The Second Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland. |
12th February 1928 | Heavy hail storms kill eleven people in England. |
| 22nd February 1928 | Birth of Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer. |
| 12th March 1928 | Malta becomes a British dominion. The island gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. |
| 12th April 1928 | A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini kills seventeen bystanders in Milan. |
| 12th April 1928 | The first ever east-west transatlantic flight sets off from Dublin, Ireland, destined for Greenly in Canada. |
| 22nd April 1928 | The last section of the original Oxford English Dictionary, ‘wise’ - ‘wyze‘, is completed and ready for publication. |
| 15th May 1928 | The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations. |
| 2nd July 1928 | The 1928 Representation of the People Act becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women over the age of 21-years in the United Kingdom. |
| 28th July 1928 | The 1928 Summer Olympics officially open in Amsterdam. |
| 15th September 1928 | Tich Freeman takes an all-time record of 304 wickets in a single English cricket season. |
| 28th September 1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin. |
| 18th November 1928 | Mickey Mouse appears in “Steamboat Willie“. It is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released, as well as the first sound film. |