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Clockwise, from top left: Israeli Declaration of Independence; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signing the Treaty of Brussels; The 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London, United Kingdom; The trial of persons accused of participation and complicity in the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; a damaged building after the 1948 Fukui earthquake; an Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500 lb (230 kg) bombs in the Malayan Emergency; Pro-Communist demonstrations before the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état; West Berliners watch a Douglas C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport in the Berlin Blockade.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

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1948 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1948 MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2701
Armenian calendar	1397 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6698
Baháʼí calendar	104–105
Balinese saka calendar	1869–1870
Bengali calendar	1355
Berber calendar	2898
British Regnal year	12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2492
Burmese calendar	1310
Byzantine calendar	7456–7457
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4645 or 4438 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4646 or 4439
Coptic calendar	1664–1665
Discordian calendar	3114
Ethiopian calendar	1940–1941
Hebrew calendar	5708–5709
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2004–2005
- Shaka Samvat	1869–1870
- Kali Yuga	5048–5049
Holocene calendar	11948
Igbo calendar	948–949
Iranian calendar	1326–1327
Islamic calendar	1367–1368
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 23 (昭和２３年)
Javanese calendar	1879–1880
Juche calendar	37
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4281
Minguo calendar	ROC 37 民國37年
Nanakshahi calendar	480
Thai solar calendar	2491
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 2074 or 1693 or 921 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 2075 or 1694 or 922

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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.