WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1937
Find out what all happened April to December 1937

A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak. (15. June 1937)

Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community. (1. November 1937)

End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. (26. July 1937)

Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco. (6. September 1937)

The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. (29. December 1937)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan. (25. September 1937)

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China. (7. July 1937)

Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. (1. August 1937)

Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. (5. July 1937)

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal. (2. August 1937)

Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China. (9. November 1937)

Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. (8. July 1937)

Aden becomes a British crown colony. (1. April 1937)

Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by Nazi forces. (1. April 1937)

The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. (3. June 1937)

Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces. (7. May 1937)

The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. (30. April 1937)

Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. (26. April 1937)

In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. (24. August 1937)

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published. (21. September 1937)