Apartheid
1948–1994 · Event
South Africa's system of institutionalised racial segregation, from the National Party's 1948 victory to the first multiracial elections.
On these timelines: Sub-Saharan Africa, Master
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- Mali Empire (1235)
- Mali Empire begins (1235)
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca (1324)
- Biafra War (1967)
- Ethiopian famine of 1983–85 (1983)
- Songhai Empire (1464)
- Ghana Empire (700)
- Mandela inaugurated as President (1994)
Around 1948
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- NHS founded (1948)