1773

Years:
1770 1771 1772 – 1773 – 1774 1775 1776

Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s

Centuries:
17th century – 18th century – 19th century

1773 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 12 – The first American museum open to the public is opened in (Charleston, South Carolina).
January 17 – Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle
April 27 or May 10 – The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
May 8 – Ali Bey dies of wounds received in a skirmish with Ottoman rebels
October 12 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Williamsburg, Virginia
October 14 – Commission of National Education (Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej) formed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is considered to be the first ministry of education in the history of mankind
December 16 – Boston Tea Party

Antigua Guatemala is destroyed by an earthquake and the capital of Guatemala is moved to Guatemala City
Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II expels Jesuits from the Empire, and Pope Clement XIV orders the dissolution of the Society of Jesus.
Baron de Morveau experiments with chlorine as a disinfectant
Daniel Boone leads some pioneers into Kentucky. "Native American Indians" attack, and Boone's son is killed
Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea

January 27 – Prince Augustus of Great Britain, Duke of Sussex (d. 1843)
February 9 – William Henry Harrison, American military leader and 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
March 14 – John Holmes, American politician (d. 1843)
March 16 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
March 26 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (d. 1836)
April 9 – Étienne Aignan, French writer, librettist, and playwright (d. 1824)
May 3 – Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian explorer (d. 1846)
May 15 – Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
May 19 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (d. 1854)
May 31 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d. 1853)
July 5 – Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, King of Etruria
July 23 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
August 22 – Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (d. 1858)
October 6 – Louis Philippe, King of the French (d. 1850)
December 21 – Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (d. 1858)
December 27 – Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, British ambassador to China and Governor-General of India (d. 1854)
Anne Hill Carter, wife of Light Horse Harry Lee and mother of Robert E. Lee (d. 1829)
Henry Hunt, British politician (d. 1835)

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