| 10th January 1946 | The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London. |
| 14th February 1946 | The Bank of England is nationalised. |
| 15th March 1946 | Clement Attlee promises independence to India, as soon as they can agree on a constitution. |
| 7th May 1946 | Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, later renamed Sony, is founded with approximately twenty employees. |
| 20th May 1946 | The House of Commons decides to nationalise mines.
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| 14th June 1946 | John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888) dies following a stroke. The Australian Television Awards are named “The Logies” in his honour. |
| 4th July 1946 | The Philippines achieve full independence following over 381 years of Western dominance. |
| 4th August 1946 | A devastating earthquake hits the northern Dominican Republic, measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale of magnitude. One hundred people are killed and 20,000 are left homeless. |
| 19th August 1946 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus leaves 3,000 people dead in Calcutta. |
| 1st October 1946 | ‘Mensa International’ is founded by British scientist and lawyer, Dr Lancelot Ware. It is an organisation for people with exceptionally high intelligence quotients. |
| 15th October 1946 | Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and a recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution. |
| 16th October 1946 | Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. |
| 10th November 1946 | The Slimbridge Wetland Reserve opens in England. |
| 17th November 1946 | Eight British servicemen are killed in Jerusalem by Jewish nationalists. |
| 11th December 1946 | The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF ) is founded. |
| 26th December 1946 | David Lean's “Great Expectations“, based on the Charles Dickens novel, is released to great acclaim in England. The film features John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons and Finlay Currie. |
| 31st December 1946 | President Harry Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially ends hostilities in the Second World War. |