George V's first royal Christmas broadcast
1932 · Event
From Sandringham the king speaks by BBC radio to listeners across the Empire, in words drafted by Rudyard Kipling — the beginning of the royal Christmas message.
On these timelines: United Kingdom (combined), England: Monarchs, England, British Empire, Master
More from England: Monarchs
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Reign of Elizabeth II (1952)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Reign of Edward I (1272)
- Reign of Edward III (1327)
Around 1932
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)