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| 1943 October |
| | | British general William Slim is appointed to command the Fourteenth Army, formed specifically for the campaign to recover Burma | |
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| 1944 March-June |
| | | William Slim secures the first Allied victories in the Burma campaign, at Imphal and Kohima in northeast India | |
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| 1945 March 20 |
| | | William Slim drives the Japanese from Mandalay and moves on south to take Rangoon | |
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| 1945 March 27 |
| | | Aung San's army, now named the Burma National Army, changes sides in a surprise move and attacks the Japanese | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Aung San's party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, wins a landslide victory in the Burmese election | |
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| 1947 |
| | | 33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting | |
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| 1948 |
| | | U Saw, a political rival of Aung San in Burma, is hanged for having plotted his assassination | |
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| 1962 |
| | | General Ne Win seizes power in a coup in Burma and establishes a single-party isolationist dictatorship | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A peaceful demonstration at Rangoon university is dispersed by gunfire, resulting in the death of dozens of students | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Foreign visits to Burma are restricted to three days (extended in the next decade to one week) | |
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