1773
1773 was a
common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
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January 12 - The first American
museum open to the public is opened in (
Charleston, South Carolina).
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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.
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May 8 -
Ali Bey dies of wounds received in a skirmish with
Ottoman rebels
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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
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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.
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Baron de Morveau experiments with
chlorine as a disinfectant
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Daniel Boone leads some pioneers into
Kentucky. "
Native American Indians" attack, and Boone's son is killed
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Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forces fail to take
Silistria.
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Hilaire Rouelle discovers
urea*
Istanbul Technical University is established (under the original name of Royal School of Naval Engineering) as the world's first comprehensive institition of higher learning dedicated to engineering education. Pioneer through the ages...(
ITU)
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January 27 -
Prince Augustus of Great Britain, Duke of Sussex (d.
1843)
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February 9 -
William Henry Harrison, American military leader and 9th
President of the United States (d.
1841)
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March 14 -
John Holmes, American politician (d.
1843)
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March 16 -
Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d.
1836)
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March 26 -
Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (d.
1836)
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April 4 -
Étienne Maurice Gérard,
Marshal of France and Prime Minister of France (d.
1852)
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April 9 -
Étienne Aignan, French writer, librettist, and playwright (d.
1824)
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May 3 -
Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian explorer (d.
1846)
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May 15 - Prince
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d.
1859)
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May 19 -
Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (d.
1854)
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May 31 -
Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d.
1853)
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June 13 -
Thomas Young, English scientist (d.
1829)
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July 23 -
Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and
Governor of New South Wales (d.
1860)
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August 22 -
Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (d.
1858)
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October 6 -
Louis Philippe, King of the French (d.
1850)
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December 9 -
Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general and diplomat (d.
1827)
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December 17 -
Sylvain Charles Valée,
Marshal of France (d.
1846)
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December 21 -
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (d.
1858)
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December 27 -
Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer
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William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, British ambassador to China and
Governor-General of India (d.
1854)
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Anne Hill Carter, wife of
Light Horse Harry Lee and mother of
Robert E. Lee (d.
1829)
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Henry Hunt, British politician (d.
1835)
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January 21 -
Alexis Piron, French writer (b.
1689)
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February 20 - King
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b.
1701)
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March 1 -
Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b.
1700)
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March 24 -
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (b.
1694)
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May 8 -
Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b.
1728)
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May 15 -
Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b.
1710)
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July 5 -
Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b.
1719)
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July 12 -
Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b.
1697)
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July 23 -
George Edwards, English naturalist (b.
1693)
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August 3 -
Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b.
1700)
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August 27 -
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b.
1721)
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September 23 -
Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b.
1718)
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August 20 -
Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b.
1701)
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October 30 -
Philippe de La Guêpière, French architect (b.
1725)
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November 16 -
John Hawkesworth, English writer
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November 19 -
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b.
1722)
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Ahmad Shah, Afghani founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b.
1724)
