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| 1959 |
| | | Liu Shaoqi replaces Mao Zedong as China's president after the Great Leap Forward fiasco, but Mao remains Chairman | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Mary Leakey finds in the Olduvai Gorge the first specimen of a new hominid species, now known as Australopithecus Boisei | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Vice-president Richard Nixon engages in a 'kitchen debate' with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev at a US exhibition in Moscow | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Mini is launched, designed by Alec Issigonis, and becomes the best-selling British car of all time | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Lee Kuan Yew becomes the first prime minister of the newly independent state of Singapore | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Billy Wilder directs Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Saul Bellow publishes Henderson the Rain King, in which an American millionaire acquires a strange role in an African tribe | |
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| 1959 |
| | | On the retirement of de Valera, Sean Lemass succeeds him as leader of Fianna F´il and prime minister of Ireland | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Transkei becomes the first African homeland, or Bantustan, within South Africa | |
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| 1959 |
| | | ETA (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna) is formed in Spain as a guerrilla organization to win Basque independence | |
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