London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth
1949 · Event
India's wish to stay as a republic remakes the club: a republic may remain a member, accepting the King as the symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and Head of the Commonwealth.
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)
- Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789)
- Cecil Rhodes (1853)
- Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
- First Virginia Charter (1606)
- Independence of Ceylon (1948)
Around 1949
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Suez Crisis (1956)