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| 1975 |
| | | South Vietnam surrenders, as President Duong Van Minh broadcasts an order to all South Viernames forces to lay down their arms | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The Willis Faber building, by English architect Norman Foster, is completed in Ipswich | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Khmer Rouge guerrillas, led by Pol Pot, take Phnom Penh and launch a genocidal reign of terror in Cambodia | |
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| 1975 |
| | | US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The first series of Fawlty Towers, co-written by and starring John Cleese, is broadcast on British TV | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Yakubu Gowon, who united Nigeria after the Biafran war, is thrown out in a military coup | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Milos Forman directs Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on a novel by Ken Kesey | |
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| 1975 |
| | | David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Portuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political party | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, become independent as the republic of Cape Verde | |
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