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| 1934 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi launches the Quit India Movement, calling on a large crowd in Bombay to 'do or die' in the struggle to expel the British | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi and nearly all the leaders of India's Congress party are arrested and will remain in prison until the end of the war | |
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| c. 1945 |
| | | Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic | |
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| 1947 |
| | | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, becomes also the first governor-general | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister of the newly independent republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes the first governor-general of the new state of Pakistan | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated at a Delhi prayer meeting by a Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The first West Indian immigrants to Britain arive from Jamaica on the Empire Windrush | |
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