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  1. 1946: 1 event
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  3. 1948: no events
  4. 1949: no events
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  6. 1951: 4 events

  1. · Conflict episode

    First Indochina War and the 1954 Geneva Accords

    France fought the Viet Minh from 1946, was defeated at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, and the resulting Geneva Accords divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel pending national elections that were never held.

    In: Vietnam

  2. · Election

    Gold Coast general elections, 1951-1956

    The CPP, led by Kwame Nkrumah, won successive Gold Coast general elections in 1951, 1954 (the first under full adult suffrage) and 1956, consolidating the political mandate for independence.

    In: Ghana

  3. · Organisation founded

    Mebyon Kernow founded, 1951

    A party campaigning for Cornish self-government and national recognition was founded.

    In: Cornwall

  4. · Referendum or popular consultation

    Naga Plebiscite, 1951

    The NNC organized an unrecognized plebiscite reporting overwhelming support for independence, using a method later questioned by scholars.

    In: Naga self-determination / Nagalim

  5. · Agreement

    Seventeen Point Agreement, 1951

    Tibet and China signed a disputed agreement establishing Chinese sovereignty while nominally preserving Tibetan domestic governance.

    In: Tibetan political-status movements