Marcel Carne's movie Le Jour se leve (Daybreak) is released.

Aime Cesaire's long anticolonial poem Cahier de retour au pays natal (Return to My Native Land) is published in the French journal Volontes.

C. S. Forester's novel Captain Horatio Hornblower is published.

James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake is published.

Ernst Jiinger's allegorical anti-Nazi novel Aufden Marmorklippen (On the Marble Cliffs) is published.

Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley is published.

Jean Renoir's movie La Regie du jeu (The Rules of the Game) is released. Italian political theorist Bruno Rizzi's The Bureaucratization of the World, a study of authoritarianism, is published.

Jan Struther's novel Mrs. Miniver is published.

Cesar Vallejo's Poemas humanos (Human Poems) are published.

14 Jan.

Norway claims approximately one million square miles of territory in Antarctica.

26 Jan.

Franco's troops take Barcelona.

10 Feb.

Pope Pius XI dies.

24 Feb.

Hungary joins the Anti-Comintern pact.

27 Feb.

Great Britain and...