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| 1945 March 20 |
| | William Slim drives the Japanese from Mandalay and moves on south to take Rangoon | |
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| 1945 March 27 |
| | Aung San's army, now named the Burma National Army, changes sides in a surprise move and attacks the Japanese | |
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| 1946 |
| | Aung San's party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, wins a landslide victory in the Burmese election | |
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| 1947 |
| | 33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting | |
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| 1948 |
| | U Saw, a political rival of Aung San in Burma, is hanged for having plotted his assassination | |
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| 1962 |
| | General Ne Win seizes power in a coup in Burma and establishes a single-party isolationist dictatorship | |
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| 1962 |
| | A peaceful demonstration at Rangoon university is dispersed by gunfire, resulting in the death of dozens of students | |
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| 1962 |
| | Foreign visits to Burma are restricted to three days (extended in the next decade to one week) | |
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| 1965 |
| | Student demonstrations against Ne Win's rule become regular occurrences, suppressed with military violence | |
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| 1987 |
| | Most of the currency in circulation in Burma becomes worthless when Ne Win replaces it with new 45 and 90 kyat notes (he says 9 is is his lucky number) | |
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