First Eurovision Song Contest
1956 · Event
Inaugural Eurovision held in Lugano, Switzerland.
On these timelines: Master, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age
Around 1956
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)