9 February - General election: Lord Craigavon wins another term. Unionists 39; Independent Unionist 3; Nationalists 8; Labour 1; Independent Labour 1.

March - Annie Chamberlain, wife of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, opens Sydenham aerodrome in east Belfast.

March - The launch of HMS Belfast from Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard.

25 April - Craigavon denounces the ceding of the 'treaty ports' of Lough Swilly, Berehaven and Cobh by Britain to Eire.

16 May - The Westminster government agrees to provide additional revenue to maintain Northern Ireland social services at UK level.

September - 244 letters received by the Ministry of Commerce. Most of these requests are from Austrian Jews to settle in Northern Ireland. Almost all of these requests are rejected.

29 September - The leaders of the Allies, Britain and France, alarmed at Germany’s expansionism and rising tensions in Europe, meet Hitler and the Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, in Munich. At what became known as the Munich Agreement, they conceded the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister famously returned from the Conference with the Agreement, which he said would guarantee ‘Peace in our time.’ 

22 December - Sir Richard Dawson Bates, Minister of Home Affairs, introduces internment. 34 are detained under the Special Powers Act.