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| 1975 |
| | English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust | |
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| 1976 |
| | Portugal adopts a democratic constitution after 43 years of dicatorship | |
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| 1976 |
| | Frederick Ashton creates a ballet based on Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, to music by Chopin | |
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| 1976 |
| | Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony | |
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| 1976 |
| | Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music | |
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| 1976 |
| | Mario Soares becomes Portugal's first democratically elected prime minister in half a century | |
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| 1976 |
| | The Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon | |
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| 1976 |
| | 19-year-old Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros ends the year as number one in Europe | |
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| c. 1977 |
| | Royal tombs are excavated at Vergina, in Macedonia, probably including that of Philip of Macedon | |
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| 1977 |
| | Jacques Chirac, leader of a recently formed neo-Gaullist party, is elected mayor of Paris | |
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