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| 1951 |
| | | A Question of Upbringing begins Antony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' | |
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| 1951 |
| | | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | |
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| 1951 |
| | | US novelist Carson McCullers publishes a collection of stories, The Ballad of the Sad Caf&eacaute; | |
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| 1951 |
| | | John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Rake's Progress, with music by Igor Stravinsky and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, has its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Appointed minister of housing in Churchill's new government, Harold Macmillan soon achieves the ambitious target of building 300,000 houses a year | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Labour loses the general election and Winston Churchill returns to Downing Street as prime minister | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The cult of Chairman Mao is officially encouraged in China, partly through steady publication of his works | |
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