973
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 973 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 973 CMLXXIII | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1726 | 
| Armenian calendar | 422 ԹՎ ՆԻԲ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5723 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 894–895 | 
| Bengali calendar | 379–380 | 
| Berber calendar | 1923 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1517 | 
| Burmese calendar | 335 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6481–6482 | 
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3670 or 3463 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3671 or 3464 | 
| Coptic calendar | 689–690 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2139 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 965–966 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4733–4734 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1029–1030 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 894–895 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4073–4074 | 
| Holocene calendar | 10973 | 
| Iranian calendar | 351–352 | 
| Islamic calendar | 362–363 | 
| Japanese calendar | Tenroku 4 / Ten'en 1 (天延元年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 874–875 | 
| Julian calendar | 973 CMLXXIII | 
| Korean calendar | 3306 | 
| Minguo calendar | 939 before ROC 民前939年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −495 | 
| Seleucid era | 1284/1285 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1515–1516 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1099 or 718 or −54 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1100 or 719 or −53 | 
Year 973 (CMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.