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| 1958 |
| | | Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London | |
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| 1959 |
| | | German novelist Günter Grass has an immediate success with his first novel, The Tin Drum | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Niger becomes independent, with Hamani Diori as the new nation's first president | |
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| 1961 |
| | | British choreographer John Cranko becomes director of the Stuttgart Ballet | |
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| c. 1961 |
| | | The drug Thalidomide, synthesized in West Germany, is shown to have been the cause of severe defects in about 12,000 children born in 46 countries | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The East German government erects the Berlin Wall to prevent an exodus of its citizens | |
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| 1963 |
| | | President Kennedy, in divided Berlin, makes the dramatic declaration: Ich bin ein Berliner ('I am a Berliner') | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Konrad Adenauer resigns after 14 years as Chancellor of West Germany and is succeeded by his economics minister, Ludwig Erhard | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Footballer Franz Beckenbauer plays his first international for West Germany | |
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| 1965 |
| | | German performance artist Joseph Beuys walks round a gallery demonstrating How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare | |
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