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| Gregorian calendar | 974 CMLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1727 |
| Armenian calendar | 423 ԹՎ ՆԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5724 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 895–896 |
| Bengali calendar | 381 |
| Berber calendar | 1924 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1518 |
| Burmese calendar | 336 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6482–6483 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3670 or 3610 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3671 or 3611 |
| Coptic calendar | 690–691 |
| Discordian calendar | 2140 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 966–967 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4734–4735 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1030–1031 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 895–896 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4074–4075 |
| Holocene calendar | 10974 |
| Iranian calendar | 352–353 |
| Islamic calendar | 363–364 |
| Japanese calendar | Ten'en 2 (天延2年) |
| Javanese calendar | 875–876 |
| Julian calendar | 974 CMLXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3307 |
| Minguo calendar | 938 before ROC 民前938年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −494 |
| Seleucid era | 1285/1286 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1516–1517 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1100 or 719 or −53 — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1101 or 720 or −52 |
974 (CMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 1st millennium, the 74th year of the 10th century, and the 5th year of the 970s decade. As of the start of 974, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.