1945

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1945 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1945
MCMXLV
Ab urbe condita2698
Armenian calendar1394
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԴ
Assyrian calendar6695
Baháʼí calendar101–102
Balinese saka calendar1866–1867
Bengali calendar1352
Berber calendar2895
British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 10 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2489
Burmese calendar1307
Byzantine calendar7453–7454
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4642 or 4435
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4643 or 4436
Coptic calendar1661–1662
Discordian calendar3111
Ethiopian calendar1937–1938
Hebrew calendar5705–5706
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2001–2002
 - Shaka Samvat1866–1867
 - Kali Yuga5045–5046
Holocene calendar11945
Igbo calendar945–946
Iranian calendar1323–1324
Islamic calendar1364–1365
Japanese calendarShōwa 20
(昭和20年)
Javanese calendar1875–1876
Juche calendar34
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4278
Minguo calendarROC 34
民國34年
Nanakshahi calendar477
Thai solar calendar2488
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
2071 or 1690 or 918
    — to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
2072 or 1691 or 919

1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.

1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat.

Events

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

January

January 27 – The Soviet Red Army liberates Auschwitz.

February

February 4 – The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
February 19 – During the Battle of Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines land on the island.

March

April

April 7Japanese battleship Yamato explodes after persistent attacks from U.S. aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa.
April 30Adolf Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, commits suicide.

May

a black and white image of two Marines in their combat uniforms. One Marine is providing cover fire with his M1 Thompson submachinegun as the other with a Browning Automatic Rifle, prepares to break cover to move to a different position. There are bare sticks and rocks on the ground.
May – Marines of 1st Marine Division fighting on Okinawa.
May 8 – American soldiers fighting in the Pacific theater listen to radio reports of Victory in Europe Day.
May 9 – Prague is liberated by the Red Army.

June

June 5Dwight Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov and Arthur Tedder.

July

July 16Trinity test at night in New Mexico.

August

August 9 – The mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air.
August 18 – Surrender of the Japanese Army in Central China (Memorial in Wuhan).

September

September 2 – Japan signs the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
September 9 – Japanese troops formally relinquish control of Southern Korea over to the United States, effectively ending Japan's 35-year rule over Korea.

October

October 18Nuremberg trials begin, after Buchenwald closes.
October 24United Nations formed. Shown above is its flag (the modern version is slightly retouched).

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
Stephen Stills
Sir Rod Stewart
Javed Akhtar
Tom Selleck
Bob Marley
Edwin Catmull
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi
Ana Lúcia Torre
Björn Ulvaeus
Bob Seger
Yochanan Vollach
Priscilla Presley
Laurent Gbagbo
John Carlos
Wolfgang Schüssel
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
Dame Helen Mirren
Patrick Modiano
David Sanborn
Steve Martin
Wyomia Tyus
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
Else Lasker-Schüler

February

Anne Frank
José María Moncada
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

March

David Lloyd George
Hans Fischer

April

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler

May

Joseph Goebbels
Prince Waldemar of Prussia
Prince Kan'in Kotohito

June

Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón

July

Óscar R. Benavides

August

Florencio Harmodio Arosemena

September

Béla Bartók

October

Pierre Laval

November

Sigurður Eggerz

December

George S. Patton

Nobel Prizes


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