| 3rd January 1937 | The first ever science fiction convention is held in Leeds. |
| 23rd January 1937 | Seventeen leading Communists go on trial in Moscow, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders. |
| 21st February 1937 | The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's ‘Aerobile‘, makes its first flight. |
| 1st April 1937 | Aden becomes a British Crown colony and is thus ruled as part of British India. |
| 9th April 1937 | The ‘Kamikaze’ aircraft arrives at Croydon Airport in London; it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. |
| 12th May 1937 | The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey. |
| 28th May 1937 | Conservative Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister. |
| 8th June 1937 | A solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific and Peru. It is the first total solar eclipse to exceed seven minutes in duration for over eight-hundred years. |
| 28th July 1937 | The IRA attempts to assassinate King George VI with a bomb in Belfast. |
| 26th August 1937 | Sino-Japanese War: Japanese aircraft attack a car carrying the ambassador of Great Britain, during a raid on Shanghai. |
| 27th September 1937 | The last Bali tiger dies. Subspecies of the Bali tiger also become extinct. |
| 5th November 1937 | Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting in the Reich Chancellery and states his plans to acquire "living space" for the German people. |
| 9th November 1937 | Ramsay MacDonald, former Prime Minister (b. 1866) dies at sea. |
| 4th December 1937 | The first edition of “The Dandy“ is published. |
21st December 1937 | Walt Disney's “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs“, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes an instant hit. |
| 28th December 1937 | Maurice Ravel, French composer of “Bolero“ (b. 1875) dies as a result of a brain injury caused by a car crash. |