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| 1946 |
| | | The marriage of George Balanchine and Maria Tallchief unites two major stars of the US ballet scene | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The first of about 20 US tests of atomic and hydrogen bombs is carried out on Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Australian painter Sidney Nolan begins a series of paintings on the theme of Ned Kelly | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Robert Lowell's second collection, Lord Weary's Castle, contains 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket' and 'Mr Edwards and the Spider' | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Communist leader Enver Hoxha begins nearly 40 years as dictator of Albania | |
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| 1946 |
| | | ENIAC is the world's first general-purpose electronic calculator | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Ezra Pound, charged with treason for his wartime broadcasts, begins twelve years in a US hospital for the criminally insane | |
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| 1946 |
| | | US poet Elizabeth Bishop publishes her first collection of poems, North and South | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Benjamin Britten bases his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra on a theme by Purcell | |
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