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| 1951 |
| | | Six European nations agree to joint coal and steel production through the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The new Iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, passes the Oil Nationalization Act, seizing Britain's assets in the region | |
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| 1951 |
| | | German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escape to the Soviet Union just ahead of their detection and arrest | |
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| 1951 |
| | | An agreement is signed by which a joint Tibetan-Chinese authority will nominally govern Tibet | |
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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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