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| 1950 |
| | | The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Polish-born British composer Andrzej Panufnik wins an international reputation with his Sinfonia elegiaco | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Polish film director Andrzej Wajda makes Ashes and Diamonds, starring the Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski uses 'aleatory counterpoint' in his Venetian Games | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik's Universal Prayer, a cantata setting poetry by Alexander Pope, has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawksi writes a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony | |
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| 1979 |
| | | John Paul II makes an emotional and influential return to Poland, the country of his birth | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Electrician Lech Walesa emerges as the leader of a strike in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland | |
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| 1980 |
| | | A trade union, Solidarnośc (Solidarity), is formed by strikers in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland | |
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