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| 1959, Jan. 10 |
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| The Soviet government rejected the Allied proposal of Dec. 31, 1958, and proposed, instead, a draft peace treaty providing for a demilitarized Germany and East German control over all access points to a free Berlin. It also recommended that 28 nations meet within two months in Prague or Warsaw, to establish a peace treaty with a neutralized but divided Germany. | 1 |
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| March 26 |
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| Britain, France, and the United States invited Soviet participation in a Foreign Ministers Conference on the question of a German peace treaty and the ending of Berlin's occupation. The USSR accepted on March 30. | 2 |
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| April 30 |
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| The United States revealed its decision to halt flights to Berlin above the 10,000-foot ceiling, as the Soviet Union had earlier requested. | 3 |
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| May 11–Aug. 5 |
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| The Foreign Ministers Conference in Geneva on Berlin made no progress toward narrowing the gap between the Soviet demand for a peace treaty with both West and East Germany and the Western insistence on the reunification of Germany based on free elections. | 4 |
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| July 1 |
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| Heinrich Luebke, the CDU candidate and minister of agriculture since 1953, was elected president, succeeding Theodor Heuss. | 5 |
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| Sept. 28 |
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| At the end of Khrushchev's tour of the United States, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower reported that the Soviet premier had promised not to set a deadline for the solution to the Berlin problem. | 6 |
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