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| 1943 |
| | | Future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin becomes leader of the underground terrorist group Irgun | |
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| 1943 |
| | | The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is repealed in the US, but there are to be only 105 Chinese immigrants each year | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Jean-Paul Sartre begins a new career as a dramatist with his first play, The Flies ('Les Mouches') | |
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| 1943 January |
| | | Hitler appoints Karl Dönitz as commander of the German navy | |
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| 1943 January I2 |
| | | Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca for a strategic conference | |
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| 1943 January 24 |
| | | The Casablanca Conference includes the decision to insist on unconditional surrender by the Axis powers | |
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| 1943 January 31 |
| | | With much of the German Sixth Army destroyed, the survivors led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrender at Stalingrad | |
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| 1943 February 9 |
| | | Orde Wingate and his Chindits launch a guerrilla campaign behind the Japanese lines in Burma | |
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| 1943 February 9 |
| | | After a six-month battle, US troops win the Pacific base of Guadalcanal from the Japanese | |
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| 1943 March 20 |
| | | Mao Zedong becomes official leader of the Chinese Communist Party, as the elected Chairman of the Central Committee and the Politburo | |
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