London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth
1949 · Event
India's wish to stay as a republic remakes the club: allegiance to the Crown gives way to a free association of equal members.
On these timelines: British Empire, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from British Empire
- Company rule in India (1757)
- Early English settlement of North America (1585)
- Victoria becomes Empress of India (1876)
- Cecil Rhodes (1853)
- Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
- First Virginia Charter (1606)
- Independence of Ceylon (1948)
- British Mandate for Mesopotamia (1920)
Around 1949
- Indian independence and Partition (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 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)