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: Partition of India, India, United Kingdom (combined), Master, British Empire
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
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)