1946

Events

 * Jeremiah Witwicky forces his son William to burn his great-grandfather Archibald's relics.


 * Borovia was renamed to the Federal People's Republic of Borovia in 1946, when a communist government was established.


 * Syria gained independence in April 1946, as a parliamentary republic.


 * The SAS was a unit of the British Army during World War II formed in 1941 by David Stirling as a commando force operating behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa and Europe. It was officially disbanded on November 30, 1946.


 * In the 1946–1949 phase of the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang) on the mainland and established the People's Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949.