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| 1974 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Willy Brandt resigns and is succeeded by Helmut Schmidt, as leader of the SDP and chancellor of Germany | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Former prime minister Harold Wilson returns to Downing Street as leader of a minority government, but wins a second general election later in the year | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing defeats François Mitterrand in the French presidential election | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Golda Meir resigns and Yitzhak Rabin succeeds her as leader of the Labour party and Israeli prime minister | |
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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 |
| | | Faced by the prospect of impeachment over Watergate, President Nixon resigns | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Richard Nixon is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Gerald Ford | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Portuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as president | |
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