
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1870 1871 1872 - 1873 - 1874 1875 1876 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== ===January - April=== * January 17 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. * February 11 - Spain Cortes Generales deposes King Amadeus I of Spain and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. * February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California * March 1 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter. * March 3 - Censorship: The Congress of the United States enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. * April 1 - The United Kingdom steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547. * April 15 - April 17 - Indian Wars: Second Battle of the Stronghold ===May - August=== * May 9 ''Der Krach'': Vienna stock market crash heralds Long Depression * May 23 - The Canada Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police (which will be renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920). * June 4 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War ends with the capture of Captain Jack. * July 1 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. * July 21 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James 1847 and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the United States West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express). * August 4 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the US 7th Cavalry Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River (Montana); only one man on each side is killed). ===September - December=== * September 16 - Germany troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War. * September 18 - New York, New York stock market crash. * November 6 - Formation of the Halifax, England Rugby League Club. * November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Canada's second Prime Minister of Canada. * November 17 - From Pest (city), Buda and Óbuda, Budapest, Hungary's capital is formed. * December 15 - Women of Fredonia, New York march against the retail liquor dealers in town to inaugurate the Woman's Crusade of 1873-74. This led to the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ===Unknown date=== * Rangers F.C. are founded. Rangers go on to be the most successful club in the world in terms of trophies won. * The United Kingdom declares war against Ashanti's King Kofi KariKari, who was involved in the trading of slaves. The war ended by July and the British established the Gold Coast_(British colony). * Coors Brewing Company begins making beer in Golden, Colorado. * DDT first synthesized. * Swedish arms company Bofors is incorporated. * In Mexico, Veracruz (city) to Mexico City railroad completed. * Royal Montreal Club in Montreal, Quebec is founded, becoming the first permanent golf club in North America. * Henry Rose exhibits barbed wire at an Illinois county fair, which is taken up by Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish, who invent a machine to mass-produce it. * Britain puts pressure on Sultan Barghash Sayyid who closes slave markets in Zanzibar * Peter Tchaikovsky composes ''The Tempest'' * First running of the Preakness Stakes horse race in Baltimore, Maryland ==Births== ===January-March=== *January 7 - Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976) * January 10 - George Orton, Canadian athlete * January 12 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner * January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1950) * January 28 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954) * February 2 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961) * February 3 - Karl Jatho, German aviation pioneer * February 4 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete * February 13 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938) * February 15 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) * February 27 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921) * March 3 - William Green, American labor leader (d. 1952) * March 11 - David Horsley, film executive (d. 1933) * March 19 - Max Reger, composer (d. 1916) ===April-June=== * April 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1943) * April 7 - John McGraw (baseball), baseball player and manager (d. 1934) * April 10 - Kyösti Kallio, Prime Minister of Finland and President of Finland (d. 1940) * April 22 - Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (d. 1945) * May 4 - Joe De Grasse, Hollywood film director (d. 1940) * May 9 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933) * May 9 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939) * May 17 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935) * May 17 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957) * May 26 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (d. 1958) * May 28 - D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (d. 1948) ===July-September=== * July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American filmmaker (d. 1968) * July 20 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (d. 1932) * August 26 - Lee De Forest, American inventor (d. 1961) * September 5 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer, inventor, engineer (d. 1942) * September 8 - David O. McKay, president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (d. 1970) * September 20 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director (d. 1949) * September 20 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (d. 1944) * September 21 - Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician (d. 1966) ===October-December=== * October 14 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937) * October 19 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925) * October 26 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942) * November 16 - W.C. Handy, American blues composer (d. 1958) * December 7 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947) * December 11 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967) * December 17 - Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (d. 1939) * William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (d. 1966) ==Deaths== *January 9 - Napoleon III, last Emperor of France (b. 1808) *January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer (b. 1803 *January 20 - Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau, religious leader *February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814) *March 10 - John Torrey, American botanist (b. 1796) *April 11 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817) *May 6 - José Antonio Páez, first President of Venezuela (b. 1790) *May 8 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (b. 1806) *May 20 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian statesman (b. 1814) *September 17 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (b. 1781) *September 22 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801) *September 23 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823) ; Edmund Strzelecki]], Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797) *December 14 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American geologist and naturalist (b. 1807) 1873 la:1873 os:1873 sq:1873
I have made some layout proposals which would affect this page (although for pre 1900 the change which would be putting the year in topic into the "see also" box used on many years consistently)is fairly minor. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 18:56, 6 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1870 1871 1872 - 1873 - 1874 1875 1876 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== ===January - April=== * January 17 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. * February 11 - Spain Cortes Generales deposes King Amadeus I of Spain and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. * February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California * March 1 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter. * March 3 - Censorship: The Congress of the United States enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. * April 1 - The United Kingdom steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547. * April 15 - April 17 - Indian Wars: Second Battle of the Stronghold ===May - August=== * May 9 ''Der Krach'': Vienna stock market crash heralds Long Depression * May 23 - The Canada Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police (which will be renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920). * June 4 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War ends with the capture of Captain Jack. * July 1 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. * July 21 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James 1847 and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the United States West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express). * August 4 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the US 7th Cavalry Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River (Montana); only one man on each side is killed). ===September - December=== * September 16 - Germany troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War. * September 18 - New York, New York stock market crash. * November 6 - Formation of the Halifax, England Rugby League Club. * November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Canada's second Prime Minister of Canada. * November 17 - From Pest (city), Buda and Óbuda, Budapest, Hungary's capital is formed. * December 15 - Women of Fredonia, New York march against the retail liquor dealers in town to inaugurate the Woman's Crusade of 1873-74. This led to the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ===Unknown date=== * Rangers F.C. are founded. Rangers go on to be the most successful club in the world in terms of trophies won. * The United Kingdom declares war against Ashanti's King Kofi KariKari, who was involved in the trading of slaves. The war ended by July and the British established the Gold Coast_(British colony). * Coors Brewing Company begins making beer in Golden, Colorado. * DDT first synthesized. * Swedish arms company Bofors is incorporated. * In Mexico, Veracruz (city) to Mexico City railroad completed. * Royal Montreal Club in Montreal, Quebec is founded, becoming the first permanent golf club in North America. * Henry Rose exhibits barbed wire at an Illinois county fair, which is taken up by Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish, who invent a machine to mass-produce it. * Britain puts pressure on Sultan Barghash Sayyid who closes slave markets in Zanzibar * Peter Tchaikovsky composes ''The Tempest'' * First running of the Preakness Stakes horse race in Baltimore, Maryland ==Births== ===January-March=== *January 7 - Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976) * January 10 - George Orton, Canadian athlete * January 12 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner * January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1950) * January 28 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954) * February 2 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961) * February 3 - Karl Jatho, German aviation pioneer * February 4 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete * February 13 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938) * February 15 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) * February 27 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921) * March 3 - William Green, American labor leader (d. 1952) * March 11 - David Horsley, film executive (d. 1933) * March 19 - Max Reger, composer (d. 1916) ===April-June=== * April 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1943) * April 7 - John McGraw (baseball), baseball player and manager (d. 1934) * April 10 - Kyösti Kallio, Prime Minister of Finland and President of Finland (d. 1940) * April 22 - Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (d. 1945) * May 4 - Joe De Grasse, Hollywood film director (d. 1940) * May 9 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933) * May 9 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939) * May 17 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935) * May 17 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957) * May 26 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (d. 1958) * May 28 - D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (d. 1948) ===July-September=== * July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American filmmaker (d. 1968) * July 20 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (d. 1932) * August 26 - Lee De Forest, American inventor (d. 1961) * September 5 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer, inventor, engineer (d. 1942) * September 8 - David O. McKay, president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (d. 1970) * September 20 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director (d. 1949) * September 20 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (d. 1944) * September 21 - Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician (d. 1966) ===October-December=== * October 14 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937) * October 19 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925) * October 26 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942) * November 16 - W.C. Handy, American blues composer (d. 1958) * December 7 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947) * December 11 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967) * December 17 - Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (d. 1939) * William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (d. 1966) ==Deaths== *January 9 - Napoleon III, last Emperor of France (b. 1808) *January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer (b. 1803 *January 20 - Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau, religious leader *February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814) *March 10 - John Torrey, American botanist (b. 1796) *April 11 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817) *May 6 - José Antonio Páez, first President of Venezuela (b. 1790) *May 8 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (b. 1806) *May 20 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian statesman (b. 1814) *September 17 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (b. 1781) *September 22 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801) *September 23 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823) ; Edmund Strzelecki]], Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797) *December 14 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American geologist and naturalist (b. 1807) 1873 la:1873 os:1873 sq:1873
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I have made some layout proposals which would affect this page (although for pre 1900 the change which would be putting the year in topic into the "see also" box used on many years consistently)is fairly minor. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 18:56, 6 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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