London 1948 Olympics
1948 · Event
The 'Austerity Games' revive the Olympics in a war-battered London, the first since 1936.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from England
- English Civil War (1642)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- Victorian era ends (1901)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Battle of Agincourt (1415)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Around 1948
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)