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| 1958 |
| | | The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The national assembly in Paris grants de Gaulle six months of unrestricted power as president – his condition for returning to government | |
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| 1958 |
| | | On his second day in power, de Gaulle visits Algiers to confront the settlers with an unwelcome message | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The new hard-line Hungarian government headed by János Kádár tries and executes Imre Nagy | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Paul Newman stars in the film version of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Yasser Arafat and others in Kuwait found Al-Fatah, a secret organization advocating armed resistance against Israel | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The king of Iraq, Faisal II, is murdered in Baghdad in a coup led by Abdul Karim Qassim | |
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| 1958 |
| | | John Cranko's version of Romeo and Juliet, to Prokofiev's score, is premiered by La Scala Ballet in Venice | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Truman Capote publishes a short novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a bewitching central character, Holly Golightly | |
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