1975

Timeline

1974 ← 1975 → 1976

Before 1900

Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous

BCE: Last Ice Age • 30,000 • 8000 • 1100 • 218

CE: 79 • 1274 • 1348 • 1502 • 1853

1900-1999

1900-1939: 1908 • 1912 • 1915 • 1918 • 1920 • 1926 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1938

'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

'50s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969

'70s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979

'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989

'90s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999

2000-present

'00s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

'10s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

'20s: 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025

Future

2027 • 2028 • 2030 • 2048 • 2097 • 2204 • 22,000

In the real world

February

• 7 February: Novelist Shigeru Kayama, who wrote the original story for Godzilla (1954), dies at 70.

March

• 15 March: Toho releases Terror of Mechagodzilla in Japanese theaters as the headliner of the Spring 1975 Toho Champion Festival. It will be the final entry in the Godzilla series' Showa era, as well as the last Godzilla film for nine years.
• 28 March: The final episode of Ultraman Leo airs, and Tsuburaya Productions takes a four-year hiatus from live-action Ultraman shows in favor of other live-action and animated projects.

April

• 5 April: Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, the first series in Toei's prolific Super Sentai franchise, airs its first episode.
• 25 April: The final episode of Go! Kotaro Ushiwaka airs.
• 30 April: The final episode of Submersion of Japan: Television Series airs.
• Monthly Shonen Champion publishes a manga adaptation of Terror of Mechagodzilla.

May

• 30 May: Masahiro Kakefuda submits his first draft of The Invisible Man vs. The Human Torch to Toho.
• New World Pictures releases a recut version of Submersion of Japan, Tidal Wave, to U.S. theaters.

June

• 1 June: Godzilla (2014) director Gareth Edwards is born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England.

September

• 20 September: Actor Ikio Sawamura dies at 70.

October

• 24 October: Masahiro Kakefuda and Jun Fukuda submit a second draft of The Invisible Man vs. The Human Torch to Toho. The film will ultimately go unproduced.

Unknown dates

• Adventure King publishes a manga adaptation of Terror of Mechagodzilla.
• A.S. Barnes & Co. publishes The Making of King Kong.
• Tomoyuki Tanaka becomes president of Toho Pictures.
• Yoshishige Shimatani, future Chairman of Toho, joins the company.

In fiction

• Eight kaiju, including Godzilla, converge on Ghana, lured by a Psionic Transmitter operated by Dr. Deverich as a proof of concept to a televised audience of potential bidders. Anti-Megalosaurus Force members track down Deverich but fail to capture him, and Colonel Schooler is killed when the kaiju destroy the broadcasting station. (Godzilla: The Half-Century War #3)
• Black Hole, Inc. and Third Planet, Inc. produce components for Robogodzilla. (Godzilla Singular Point)

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