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| 1960 |
| | | Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first president of the newly independent Ivory Coast, begins thirty-three years of relatively peaceful rule | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The English revue Beyond the Fringe has its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Chad becomes independent with François Tombalbaye as president | |
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| c. 1960 |
| | | Neo-Pentecostalism, also known as Charismatic Renewal, becomes an important element within many Christian denominations | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US novelist John Barth publishes The Sot-Weed Factor, a picaresque life of Edmund Cook set on a family tobacco plantation in Maryland | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Gabon becomes independent with Léon M'ba as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Ubangi-Shari becomes independent and takes the name Central African Republic | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French Congo becomes independent as the republic of Congo, with Fulbert Youlou as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Mobutu Sese Seko takes power in a military coup in the midst of chaos in the Congo | |
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