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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Mauritania becomes independent, with Moktar Ould Daddah as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US author John Updike begins to chart the fictional progress of Harry Angstrom, known as Rabbit, in Rabbit, Run | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Keith Holyoake begins twelve unbroken years as New Zealand's prime minister | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Albert Luthuli, president of the ANC in South Africa, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Democrat candidate John F. Kennedy defeats Republican Richard Nixon in the US presidential election | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Vietcong, or NLF, is formed as a guerrilla force to liberate South Vietnam from the US-backed government | |
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| c. 1960s |
| | | The remaining part of Whitton Tower or Whitton Castle, a gothic tower built in the grounds of Whitton Park in the 1740s, is demolished. | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Penguin Books are prosecuted for obscenity for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, and are acquitted | |
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| 1960 |
| | | British artist Bridget Riley creates patterns that produce unexpected optical effects, in a style that becomes known as op art | |
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| c. 1960 |
| | | It is estimated that during this year the population of the world reached three billion | |
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