When did the 14th Dalai Lama first visit Europe?

The 14th Dalai Lama first visited Europe in 1973.1

While he initially traveled little during the early years of his exile in India, he later became a global figure who traveled extensively to lecture on Buddhism and advocate for the rights of the people of Tibet. Following his first European visit, he traveled to the United States for the first time in 1979 and eventually visited dozens of other countries to meet with political and religious leaders.21