Day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta

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

Series of race riots in Chicago, United States

1946 South American Championship — football tournament

1946 Iran crisis — conflict in northwestern Iran

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

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

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

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