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| 1949 |
| | | The musical South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1949 |
| | | US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Exceptional Scythian remains are found in frozen burial mounds at Pazyryk, in the Altai region of Siberia | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Radical young members, including Nelson Mandela, take control of the ANC | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Ealing Studios produce a film of Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel Whisky Galore, about an alcoholic windfall on the island of Barra | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The first Soviet atomic bomb, called by the Americans Joe One, is successfully tested in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees make use of the polarized light of the sun to calculate direction | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munchin star as three US sailors on shore leave in the screen version of On the Town | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The Christian Democrats win the first elections in Germany since 1933, and Konrad Adenauer becomes chancellor of West Germany | |
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| 1949 |
| | | French author Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex, a widely influential feminist polemic | |
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