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| 1956 |
| | | Communist activist Fidel Castro returns from Mexico to Cuba to organize guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected for a second US presidential term, again with Richard Nixon as his vice-president | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The British queen, Elizabeth II, moves the traditional royal Christmas address from radio to TV | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The ballet Spartacus, with music by Aram Khachaturian, has its premiere in Leningrad | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Anthony Eden resigns as UK prime minister after the fiasco of the Suez Crisis, and is succeeded by Harold Macmillan | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Danish architect Jørn Utzon wins the competition to design Sydney Opera House | |
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| 1957 |
| | | With his Hundred Flowers Campaign ('Let a hundred flowers bloom'), Mao Zedong invites criticism and then locks up the critics | |
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| 1957 |
| | | French critic Roland Barthes develops in Mythologies the theory of semiotics, relating to signs and symbols | |
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| 1957 |
| | | De Valera takes stringent measures against the IRA and Sinn Fein, detaining activists in an internment camp | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Kwame Nkrumah leads the Gold Coast into independence under a name of historic resonance, Ghana | |
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