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| 1973 |
| | | US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels | |
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| 1973 |
| | | President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president | |
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| 1973 |
| | | William Friedkin directs a horror movie, The Exorcist, from a novel by William Peter Blatty | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet | |
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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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