Events[]
January[]
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien's twenty-first birthday.
- 3 - Tolkien contacts Edith Bratt, who subsequently breaks off her engagement with George Field.
- 7 - Actor Francis-Marie Arist de Wolff is born.
- 8 - Engagement of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt
- 21 - Actor Geoffrey Richard William Harris is born.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien begins his diary "JRRT and EMB in account together, AMDG".
February[]
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a postcard to Edith Bratt.
May[]
- 16 – Norman Davis is born.
October[]
- 11 - Actor John Bryning is born.
November[]
- 19 - Exeter College Smoker, featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is printed.
December[]
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College.
- 16 – In an annual Christmas rugby match at King Edward's School, alumni at Oxford and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, Thomas Kenneth Barnsley, Robert Quilter Gilson, Geoffrey Bache Smith, and Sidney Barrowclough lose 14-10.
- ? - First stanza of Valedictory is published in the Stapeldon Magazine.
- ? - "Oxford Letter", J.R.R. Tolkien's report on former King Edward's pupils at Oxford, is published in The King Edward's School Chronicle.
Unknown[]
- ? - Tolkien takes a Second Class in exams and transfers from classics to English, with emphasis in philology, and formally studies Old Norse.