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| 1954 |
| | | The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends with the surrender to the Vietminh of 12,000 French troops | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The French abandon Vietnam, leaving the country divided at the seventeenth parallel | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Politician and author Winston Churchill completes his six-volume history The Second World War | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The US Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in US schools is illegal | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Oxford medical student Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile, at the Iffley Road track | |
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| 1954 |
| | | George Cukor directs Judy Garland and James Mason in A Star Is Born | |
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| 1954 |
| | | An invasion of Guatemala from Honduras, with CIA support, brings to power a right-wing military junta | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Anglo-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch publishes her first novel, Under the Net | |
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| 1954 |
| | | George Grivas leads a guerrilla movement, EOKA, fighting for Cyprus's independence from Britain and union with Greece | |
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| 1954 |
| | | 19-year-old Françoise Sagan has a major international success with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse | |
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