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| 1973 |
| | | The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of Stalin's labour camps, is published in Paris | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement | |
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| 1973 |
| | | US vice-president Spiro Agnew resigns when convicted on charges of bribery | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Richard Nixon appoints Gerald Ford as his vice-president in place of the disgraced Spiro Agnew | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Arab oil-exporting countries cause an economic crisis by denying oil to western countries supporting Israel | |
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| 1973 |
| | | US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying | |
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| 1973 |
| | | A cease-fire brokered by the USA and UN brings the Yom Kippur War to and end after 18 days | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Patrick White is the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers | |
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