| 8th January 1935 | Birth of Elvis Presley, American singer, actor, and guitarist (d. 1977). |
| 28th January 1935 | Iceland becomes the first country to legalise abortion on medical grounds. |
| 22nd February 1935 | Aircraft are banned from flying over the White House. |
| 16th March 1935 | Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament, despite this being in violation of the Versailles Treaty. |
| 21st March 1935 | Persia is renamed Iran. |
| 19th May 1935 | T. E. Lawrence, former British-soldier and subject of the film “Lawrence of Arabia”, dies in a motorbike accident. |
| 10th June 1935 | Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith. |
| 30th July 1935 | The first Penguin paperback books are published. |
| 5th November 1935 | Parker Brothers, the toy manufacturer and brand, releases the first edition of the board game ‘Monopoly‘. |
| 14th November 1935 | Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin wins the 1935 general election and returns to office for the Conservative Party, with a large but reduced majority. |
| 3rd December 1935 | Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII (b. 1868) dies. |
| 18th December 1935 | Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary and is replaced by Anthony Eden. |