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| 1951 |
| | | The Festival of Britain, on the south bank of the Thames in London, celebrates the end of wartime austerity | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British architects Arnold Powell and John Moya design the Skylon as a central feature for the Festival of Britain | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner open on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Catcher in the Rye is US author J.D. Salinger's immensely successful first novel | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British architect Basil Spence wins the competition to design a new cathedral for Coventry | |
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| 1951 |
| | | UN and Chinese forces reach a stalemate in Korea, facing each other from fixed positions on either side of the 38th Parallel | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British author John Wyndham creates a dark fantasy in his novel The Day of the Triffids | |
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| 1951 |
| | | In Christ of St John of the CrossSalvador Dali paints an image of the crucified Christ seeming to fly on his cross | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British-Canadian choreographer Celia Franca founds the National Ballet of Canada | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Batllistas, followers in Uruguay of José Batlle, attempt an unusual experiment in the reform of government | |
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