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| 1974 |
| | US tennis player Chris Evert wins the first of three victories at Wimbledon and of seven in the French Open | |
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| 1974 |
| | Jimmy Connors wins both Wimbledon and the US Open, on each occasion defeating the veteran Ken Rosewall | |
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| 1974 |
| | German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England | |
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| 1974 |
| | Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón | |
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| 1974 |
| | An uprising organized in Ethiopia by the Dergue results in the arrest of Haile Selassie and his murder a year later | |
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| 1974 |
| | Turkish troops invade and occupy northeast Cyprus, causing the island to be divided for decades to come | |
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| 1974 |
| | The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to hand over White House tapes of conversations relevant to Watergate | |
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| 1974 |
| | The House Judiciary Committee takes the first steps in the process of impeaching President Nixon, citing obstruction of justice | |
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| 1974 |
| | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada | |
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| 1974 |
| | Faced by the prospect of impeachment over Watergate, President Nixon resigns | |
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