18th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1945

Series of race riots in Chicago, United States

1946 European Athletics Championships — 1946 edition of the European Athletics Championships

1946 South American Championship — football tournament

Corfu Channel incident — 1946–48 altercations between the United Kingdom and Albania

Operation Downfall — codename for the Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II

EuroBasket 1946 — 1946 edition of Eurobasket

1946 Cannes Film Festival — 1946 film festival edition, first edition

3rd Golden Globe Awards — 1946 film award ceremony, on the 30th of March in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1945 filmmaking

1946 Iran crisis — conflict in northwestern Iran

Bilateral treaty signed between the United Kingdom and Transjordan on March 22, 1946