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| 1949 |
| | | The British government declares that northern Ireland will remain British unless the parliament in Stormont decides otherwise | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The technique of radiocarbon dating is developed by US chemist Willard Libby | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Robert Menzies returns as Australia's prime minister, and remains in the post for an unbroken sixteen years | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sets up a new Republic of China in Taiwan, vowing to recapture the rest of the nation in due course | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The Dutch concede independence for Indonesia with Achmed Sukarno as president | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Batavia reverts to its original name of Jakarta and becomes the capital of Indonesia | |
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| 1949 |
| | | George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel set in a terrifying totalitarian state of the future, watched over by Big Brother | |
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| 1949 May 12 |
| | | The Soviet Union lifts the blockade on Berlin and the airlift ends, after providing for nearly a year a lifeline to the city | |
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| 1949 May 25 |
| | | The Federal Republic of Germany is formed from the British, French and US zones of occupation | |
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| 1949 May 30 |
| | | The USSR grants nominal independence to east Germany as the newly established German Democratic Republic | |
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