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| 1948 |
| | | French composer Pierre Schaeffer writes the first pieces of musique concrète, and coins the term | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Louis St-Laurent succeeds Mackenzie King as Liberal leader and prime minister of Canada | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US president Harry S. Truman wins election to the office in his own right | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Prime minister Ben Chifley sees Australia's first mass-produced car, the Holden, roll off the production line | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen completes Turangaîlila-symphonie, a symphony in ten movements for an orchestra including ondes martenot | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, to music by Prokofiev, is the first full-length ballet by an English choreographer | |
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| 1948 June 24 |
| | | The Soviet Union imposes a blockade on Berlin by denying the other powers access through the land corridor to the city | |
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| 1948 June 26 |
| | | The Western powrers respond to the Soviet blockade by launching the Berlin airlift, flying in necessary provisions of every kind | |
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| 1948 December 23 |
| | | Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged | |
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