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| 1956 |
| | | Confronted by a popular uprising, Communist leaders in Hungary bring back the reformist prime minister Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Israeli troops invade the Sinai peninsula, a province of Egypt bordering the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invade Hungary to end the uprising and arrest Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Kremlin imposes János Kádár on Hungary as head of a new government | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Under international pressure Britain and France agree to a humiliating withdrawal from Suez | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Melbourne hosts the Olympics, in what becomes known as 'the Friendly Games' | |
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| 1956 |
| | | 18-year-old Australian sprinter Betty Cuthbert wins three gold medals in the Melbourne Olympics, at 100m, 200m and 400m | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima publishes The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is formed as a guerrilla movement to end Portuguese rule | |
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