Jinnah dies a year into Pakistan
1948 · Event
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founder, dies of tuberculosis thirteen months after independence, having kept his illness secret; Mountbatten later claimed he would have delayed Partition had he known.
On these timelines: Partition of India, India, Master
More from Partition of India
- Pakistan independence (1947)
- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
- Partition violence and population exchange (1947)
- Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' (1947)
- Direct Action Day (1946)
- Radcliffe Line published (1947)
- The Indian Independence Act passes (1947)
- The Lahore Resolution demands Pakistan (1940)
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)