1974

1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.

From top to bottom, left to right: the Watergate scandal forces Richard Nixon to resign; the Turkish invasion of Cyprus divides the island after a Greek-backed coup; the Ethiopian Revolution ends Haile Selassie’s monarchy; West Germany wins the 1974 FIFA World Cup; the Ma'alot massacre leaves dozens dead in a school hostage crisis; Portugal’s Carnation Revolution peacefully ends the Estado Novo dictatorship; the Bangladesh famine of 1974 kills hundreds of thousands; the Guillaume affair triggers political turmoil in West Germany; and the Joelma Building fire in São Paulo kills 179 people.

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1974 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1974 MCMLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2727
Armenian calendar	1423 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6724
Baháʼí calendar	130–131
Balinese saka calendar	1895–1896
Bengali calendar	1380–1381
Berber calendar	2924
British Regnal year	22 Eliz. 2 – 23 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2518
Burmese calendar	1336
Byzantine calendar	7482–7483
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4671 or 4464     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4672 or 4465
Coptic calendar	1690–1691
Discordian calendar	3140
Ethiopian calendar	1966–1967
Hebrew calendar	5734–5735
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2030–2031
- Shaka Samvat	1895–1896
- Kali Yuga	5074–5075
Holocene calendar	11974
Igbo calendar	974–975
Iranian calendar	1352–1353
Islamic calendar	1393–1394
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 49 (昭和４９年)
Javanese calendar	1905–1906
Juche calendar	63
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4307
Minguo calendar	ROC 63 民國63年
Nanakshahi calendar	506
Thai solar calendar	2517
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 2100 or 1719 or 947     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 2101 or 1720 or 948
Unix time	126230400 – 157766399

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Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a parliamentary republic and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the hosts won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire.