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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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| 1957 |
| | | US novelist John Cheever publishes The Wapshot Chronicle, depicting a wealthy and eccentric family in Massachusetts | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Fred Hoyle, William Fowler, and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge explain stellar nucleosynthesis | |
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| 1957 |
| | | At a conference in Bermuda, Macmillan meets Eisenhower and patches up the 'special relationship' after the rift over Suez | |
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| 1957 |
| | | US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | |
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