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| 1973 |
| | | The last US troops leave Vietnam, ending American involvement in a continuing war between the north and south of the country | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Thames Water Authority takes over from the Metropolitan Water Board and Hampton waterworks becomes part of Thames Water which is later privatised | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Sears Tower opens in Chicago, displacing the Empire State as the tallest building in the world | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film The Sting | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Polisario is formed to fight for the independence of Western Sahara | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Winning power in a military coup, Juvenal Habyarimana begins a 21-year spell as dictator in Rwanda | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Watergate scandal claims its first senior victims with the resignation of two of Nixon's closest advisers, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman | |
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