21st Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1948

1949 South American Championship — football tournament

1949 battle during the Chinese civil war

North Atlantic Treaty — treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the NATO

6th Golden Globe Awards — 1949 film award ceremony, on the 16th of March in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1948 filmmaking

1949 Armistice Agreements — formal ceasefire which ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

1949 Cannes Film Festival — film festival edition

EuroBasket 1949 — 1949 edition of EuroBasket

Operation Priboi — code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949

Battle of the Greek Civil War (1949)

Raising of the Ink Flag at Umm Rashrash