1970s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1970s was the decade that started on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979.

Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory after he resigned because of the Watergate scandal in 1974; refugees on a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; the 1973 oil crisis causes economic damage throughout the developed world; both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; the 1970 Bhola cyclone kills around 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (which would become independent as Bangladesh in 1971) in November 1970; the Iranian Revolution of 1979 causes Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi to be removed, who is later replaced by an Islamic theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini; disco music becomes more popular.

EventsEdit

Throughout the decade: decolonization continued: Angola, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Oman, the Bahamas, and many other countries gained independence. Also, metrication in many English speaking countries.
1970, December 15 – spaceship Venera 7 lands on Venus.
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
December 16 – Partition of Pakistan of East and West Pakistans into Bangladesh and Pakistan.
1972, March 2 – Pioneer 10 is launched (sent into space). It becomes the first spaceship to fly near Jupiter and the asteroid belt.
1972 – Munich massacre
1973, April 6 – Pioneer 11 is launched. It becomes the first the first spaceship to fly near Saturn.
1974 – August 9 Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States due to the Watergate scandal.
1973 – 1973 Arab-Israeli War
1975 – end of the Vietnam War
1975 – communists take power in Cambodia.
1976, July 20 – spaceship Viking 1 lands on Mars.
1977, August 20 – Voyager 2 is launched. It becomes the first spaceship to fly near Uranus and Neptune.
1977, September 5 – Voyager 1 is launched. It is now the farthest spaceship from the Earth.
1977: The last cases of smallpox of the world.
1978 – year with three popes
1978, October 1 – Vietnam invades Cambodia.
1979 – the World Health Organization says it has eliminated smallpox.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments