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| 1951 |
| | | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon | |
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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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| 1952 |
| | | Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta | |
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| 1952 |
| | | King Adbullah's grandson Hussein (who was with him when he was assassinated in 1951) becomes king of Jordan | |
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| 1953 |
| | | New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stand together on the top of Everest | |
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| 1953 |
| | | An armistice ends the Korean War, leaving several million dead and a country divided either side of a military zone along the 38th parallel | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh is removed from office in an armed coup sponsored by the CIA and Britain's MI6 | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Cambodia wins independence from the colonial power, France | |
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