Indian independence and Partition
1947 · Event
Mountbatten oversees rushed partition of British India into India and Pakistan; up to a million die in resulting violence.
On these timelines: India, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from India
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
Around 1947
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)