| 20th January 1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his full term as U.S. President. |
| 27th January 1965 | The State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place with the largest assembly of statesmen in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. |
| 6th February 1965 | Sir Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division football game, at the record age of fifty years and five days. |
| 18th February 1965 | Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 23rd February 1965 | Stan Laurel, British actor and one half of the famous ‘Laurel And Hardy‘ double act (b. 1890) dies three days after suffering a heart attack. His comedy partner had died nine years earlier, in 1957. |
| 23rd April 1965 | The Pennine Way officially opens. |
| 31st May 1965 | Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500. He wins the Formula One world driving championship later in the year. |
| 22nd July 1965 | Sir Alec Douglas-Home resigns as leader of the British Conservative Party. |
| 26th July 1965 | The Maldives receive full independence from Great Britain. |
| 27th July 1965 | Edward Heath becomes Leader of the Conservative Party. |
| 1st August 1965 | Cigarette advertising is banned on British television. |
| 15th August 1965 | The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York. |
| 8th October 1965 | The Post Office Tower opens in London. |
| 29th October 1965 | Ian Brady and Myra Hindley appear in court, charged with the murders of Edward Evans (17), Lesley Ann Downey (10), and John Kilbride (12). |
| 8th November 1965 | The Murder Act of 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom. |
| 22nd December 1965 | A seventy miles per hour speed limit is imposed on British roads. |
| 27th December 1965 | The British oil platform ‘Sea Gem’ collapses in the North Sea. |