- February 23
- The Mickey Mouse film The Band Concert is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. This is the first Mickey Mouse film processed in Technicolor. [16] [7] [22] [23] [85.9] [113.110] [190.26] [230.31] [250.98] [1378.58]
- February 27
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film The Tortoise and the Hare. [13] [16] [23] [38.57] [39.364]
- March 14
- Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse daily newspaper comic strip. [82.102]
- March 16
- The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Service Station is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [15] [228.328]
- March 22
- The Silly Symphony film The Golden Touch is released to theaters. It is such an embarrassing failure, that it is quickly withdrawn from distribution. [16] [23] [228.208] (1934 [34.82])
- April 13
- The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Kangaroo is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. This is the last black-and-white Disney cartoon. [16] [23] [228.327]
- April 20
- The Silly Symphony film The Robber Kitten is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.472]
- (month unknown)
- Walt Disney instructs Don Graham to hire 300 more artists. [177.16]
- May 11
- The Silly Symphony film Water Babies is released to theaters. [16] [23]
- May 15
- The third Mickey Mouse Magazine is first published, priced at 10 cents. [75] [113.143] [228.99,323] [650.50]
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- May 25
- The Silly Symphony film The Cookie Carnival is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.153]
- June 1
- The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reports that it produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney. [113.128]
- June 29
- The Silly Symphony film Who Killed Cock Robin? is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.610]
- (month unknown)
- Noma Electric Company is licensed to produce tree-decorating lights with Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony images. [249.81]
- Carl Banks begins working for the Disney studio, as an animation inbetweener. [228.41]
- In France, the League of Nations presents Walt Disney with a special medal in recognition of the fact that Mickey Mouse is "a symbol of universal good will". [96.24] [267.101] [483.79] (1937 [234.12])
- In the New York Times Magazine, L.H. Robbins writes "Mickey Mouse is the best known and most popular international figure of his day." [370.5]
- Lionel introduces The Mickey Mouse Handcar train toy, with a circle of track, for 90 cents. (254,000 sets are sold in under four months. Over one million are sold in three years, saving Lionel from bankruptcy.) [328.44]
- An exhibition of Mickey Mouse art is displayed at the fashionable Leicester Gallery in London, England. [96.25]
- Disney begins to phase out the Mickey Mouse Clubs, due to difficulties in administering so many clubs around the world. [96.82] [113.102]
- John Lounsbery begins work at the Disney studio as an animator on the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (He is later referred to as one of Disney's Nine Old Men. He is named a Disney Legend in 1989.) [228.296] [1371.296]
- Ken O'Connor begins work at the Disney studio, as a layout artist. [228.364]
- In Spain, Mickey Revista Infantil Illustrada is first published. (The magazine lasts for one year.) [650.53]
- July 13
- The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Garden is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [15] [23] [228.326]
- (month unknown)
- Development begins on the proposed animated short film, Sea Monster, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. [176.36]
- August 3
- The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Fire Brigade is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Clarabelle Cow, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.326]
- August
- Roy Disney concludes negotiations to receive a loan of US$250,000 from the Bank of America. [1102.165]
- August 31
- The Mickey Mouse film Pluto's Judgement Day is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [15] [23]
- September 28
- The Mickey Mouse film On Ice is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.369]
- October 5
- The Silly Symphony film Music Land is released to theaters. Also known as Musicland. [16] [23] [228.347]
- October
- The last issue of the second Mickey Mouse Magazine is published. [113.142,328] [228.323]
- October 26
- The Silly Symphony film Three Orphan Kittens is released to theaters. [15] [16] [23][225.41] [235.92] [501.556]
- (month unknown)
- The Goodyear Rubber Company produces a 50-foot high inflatable Mickey Mouse to lead Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Other Disney balloons in the parade are Pluto, the Big Bad Wolf, and a pig from the film Three Little Pigs. [96.23] [911.167] (1934, Christmas Parade [483.88])
- November 30
- The Silly Symphony film Cock o' the Walk is released to theaters. [16] [7] [23] [1378.144]
- December 14
- The Silly Symphony film Broken Toys is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.100]
- December
- Marc Davis joins the Walt Disney Studio, starting as an assistant to animator Grim Natwick. [257.69] [1371.336] [1378.174]
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