Independence of Ceylon
1948 · Event
Ceylon becomes a self-governing dominion after 152 years of British rule — the first Crown colony to reach independence by constitutional steps.
On these timelines: British Empire, Master
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)
- London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth (1949)
- Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
- First Virginia Charter (1606)
Around 1948
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)