1948

Clockwise, from top left: Israeli Declaration of Independence; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signing the Treaty of Brussels; The 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London, United Kingdom; The trial of persons accused of participation and complicity in the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; a damaged building after the 1948 Fukui earthquake; an Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500 lb (230 kg) bombs in the Malayan Emergency; Pro-Communist demonstrations before the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état; West Berliners watch a Douglas C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport in the Berlin Blockade.
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1948 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1948
MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita2701
Armenian calendar1397
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Assyrian calendar6698
Baháʼí calendar104–105
Balinese saka calendar1869–1870
Bengali calendar1355
Berber calendar2898
British Regnal year12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2492
Burmese calendar1310
Byzantine calendar7456–7457
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4645 or 4438
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4646 or 4439
Coptic calendar1664–1665
Discordian calendar3114
Ethiopian calendar1940–1941
Hebrew calendar5708–5709
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2004–2005
 - Shaka Samvat1869–1870
 - Kali Yuga5048–5049
Holocene calendar11948
Igbo calendar948–949
Iranian calendar1326–1327
Islamic calendar1367–1368
Japanese calendarShōwa 23
(昭和23年)
Javanese calendar1879–1880
Juche calendar37
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4281
Minguo calendarROC 37
民國37年
Nanakshahi calendar480
Thai solar calendar2491
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2074 or 1693 or 921
    — to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2075 or 1694 or 922

1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.


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