* January 1: The first Model T Ford is sold.
* February 18: The first International Women's Day is celebrated.
* April 17: The first Russian Duma convenes.
* May 23: The Second Hague Conference begins.
* June 26: The first Wimbledon Championships are held.
* July 1: The first Tour de France begins.
* October 18: The first successful flight of a heavier-than-air craft is made by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
* November 1: New Zealand becomes a dominion of the British Empire.
* December 16: The first electric toaster is patented by Albert Marsh.
1954
* January 1: The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched.
* February 7: The first successful hydrogen bomb is tested by the United States.
* March 1: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools is unconstitutional.
* April 7: The first successful ascent of Mount Everest is made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
* May 8: The Geneva Conference on Indochina begins.
* June 18: The first mass-produced transistor radio is introduced by Regency Electronics.
* July 26: The first nuclear power plant begins operating in Obninsk, Soviet Union.
* October 23: The first French nuclear test is conducted in the Sahara Desert.
* November 1: The Algerian War of Independence begins.
* December 1: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, begins its first sea trials.