Giscard d'Estaing elected president of France
1974 · Event
A narrow win over Mitterrand brings a liberalising centrist to the Élysée; the voting age drops to eighteen and divorce law is loosened.
On these timelines: Master, France
Around 1974
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)