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| 1948 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes Pisan Cantos, about his postwar imprisonment in an American detention centre near Pisa | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coins a term for his contemporaries, the Beat Generation | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play | |
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| 1948 |
| | | In the title of a new book US mathematician Norbert Wiener popularizes a term that he has coined, Cybernetics | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The first West Indian immigrants to Britain arive from Jamaica on the Empire Windrush | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Vittorio de Sica directs the film Bicycle Thieves, a classic of Italian neorealism | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Balanchine's New York City Ballet becomes the resident company in the City Center for Music and Drama | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Marshall, the US secretary of state, launches a plan to distribute aid to sixteen European countries | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Daniel Malan becomes South Africa's prime minister after his National Party wins the general election | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Richard Strauss completes his Four Last Songs in the year before his death | |
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