1967 by †Seán Manchester (oil on canvas)
- 13 January – Elizabeth Wojdyla and Barbara Moriarty, two students of La Sainte Union Catholic School for Girls, witnessed bodies rising from graves as they passed the North Gate of Highgate Cemetery in Swains Lane late at night on their way home from a dinner party with friends.
- 7 February – The National Front was founded by A. K. Chesterton (by an amalgamation of the British National Party and League of Empire Loyalists).
- 12 February – Police raided "Redlands", the Sussex home of Rolling Stones musician Keith Richards, following a tip-off from the News of the World. No immediate arrests were made, but Richards, fellow band member Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser were later charged with possession of drugs.
- 31 March – At the Astoria Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He was taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands.
- Puppet on a String performed by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) won the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the UK, becoming the first English language song to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
- 11 April – Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its Old Vic premiere.
- 13 April – Conservatives won the Greater London Council elections.
- The first Spring Bank Holiday occurred on a fixed date of the last Monday in May, replacing the former Whitsun holiday in England and Wales.
- 'Barbeque 67', a music festival, at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall, Spalding, featured Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Pink Floyd and Zoot Money.
- 1 June – The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of rock music's most acclaimed and influential albums.
- 29 June – Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones was jailed for a year for possession of illegal drugs. His bandmate, Mick Jagger was sentenced to three months for the same offence.
- 1 July – The first scheduled colour television broadcasts from six transmitters covering the main population centres in England began on BBC2 for certain programmes.
- 4 July – Parliament decriminalised private acts of consensual adult male homosexuality in England and Wales with the Sexual Offences Act.
- 9 August – Playwright Joe Orton was battered to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell (who then committed suicide) at their North London home.
- 27 August - The Beatles manager Brian Epstein died.
- 11 October – Prime Minister Harold Wilson won a libel action against rock band The Move in the High Court after they depicted him in the nude in promotional material for their record Flowers in the Rain.
- 25 October – The Abortion Act, passed in Parliament, legalising abortion on a number of grounds (with effect from 1968).
- 5 December – The Beatles opened the Apple Shop in London.
- 12 December – Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, 25, won a High Court appeal against a nine-month prison sentence for possessing and using cannabis. He was instead fined £1,000 and put on probation for three years.
