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1936
 
    
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money       
1936
 
    
Hitler gives Reinhard Heydrich control of the Gestapo       
1936
 
    
A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War       
1936
 
    
Mussolini appoints his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his minister for foreign affairs       
1936
 
     
In Language, Truth and Logic 26-year-old A.J. Ayer produces a classic exposition of Logical Positivism        
1936
 
    
At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth       
1936
 
    
Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London       
1936
 
     
In the first month of the Spanish Civil War the playwright García Lorca is arrested and shot by rebel Falange militia        
1936
 
     
Alexander Korda's bleakly visionary film Things to Come is based on the H.G. Wells novel of 1933        
1936
 
     
On Stalin's orders Dmitry Shostakovich is attacked in Pravda for providing 'chaos instead of music'