Jordan gains independence
1946 · Event
Transjordan becomes the fully independent Hashemite Kingdom under King Abdullah I.
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- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Jericho settled (9000 BCE)
- Domestication of wheat in the Levant (9000 BCE)
- Nakba (1948)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- King David (1040 BCE)
Around 1946
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- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)