1974 in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Events

• 1 January–7 March – The Three-Day Week is introduced by the Conservative Government as a measure to conserve electricity during the period of industrial action by coal miners.

  February

• 4 February – Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing; on 8 February the toll reaches 12 with the death in hospital of an 18-year-old soldier seriously injured in the bombing.
• 7 February
• 12 February – BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation.
• 14 February
• * Bob Latchford, the Birmingham City centre forward, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £350,000 move to Everton.

  March

• 3 March – 180 Britons are among the dead when Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
• 10 March – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.

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May

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July

August

September

October

November

December

Births

• 5 September – Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs
• 20 October – Mohammad Sidique Khan, Islamic terrorist, leader of 7 July 2005 London bombings

  Deaths