Date | Event |
| Kipushi Mine starts production. |
| Compagnie sucrière Kwilu-Ngongo is created in the town of Kwilu Ngongo. |
| Charles Duchesne is appointed governor and deputy governor-general of the province of Équateur. |
March | Sonatra (Société Nationale des Transports Fluviaux au Congo) merges with the transport operations of the Compagnie Industrielle et de Transports au Stanley Pool (Citas) to create Unatra (Union nationale des Transports fluviaux). |
April | Albert National Park is established, the core of what would become Virunga National Park. |
2 July | Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), is born in Onalua in the Katako-Kombe Territory of the Kasaï Province . |
5 October | Antoine Gizenga, future prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is born in Mbanze. |