1773

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years:	1770 1771 1772 – 1773 – 1774 1775 1776

1773 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries:
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1773
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1773

January–June

January 12 – The first American museum opens to the public in Charleston, South Carolina.
January 17 – Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
January 18 – The first Opera-performance in the Swedish language, Thetis and Phelée, performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.
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 – In Egypt, Ottoman rebels revolt, killing Ali Bey, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt.

July–December

July 21 – Under the pressure of the Bourbon courts, Pope Clement XIV suppresses the Society of Jesus (brief Dominus ac Redemptor).
September 11 – The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, written by Benjamin Franklin.
October 10
- Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by American Indians in which his son is killed.
- Paul Revere marries Rachel Walker, his second wife.
October 12 – America's first insane asylum opens for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg, Virginia.
October 13 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
October 14 – The Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission for the Education of the People), 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: A group of Americans, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the British East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor.

Undated

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.
Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forces fail to take Silistria.
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 institution of higher learning dedicated to engineering education.
In China, written work begins on the Siku Quanshu, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history (surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century). Upon completion in 1782, the books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million Chinese characters.
John Harrison's "H4" wins him the Longitude prize for the Marine chronometer.
Emelian Pugachev starts a rebellion in Russia.
The Regulating Act creates the office of governor general, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory controlled by The British East India Company.
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock publishes the last five cantos of his epic poem Der Messias in Hamburg.

Ongoing events

Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774.

Births

**1773 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1773 MDCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2526
Armenian calendar	1222 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-71 – -70
Bengali calendar	1180
Berber calendar	2723
Buddhist calendar	2317
Burmese calendar	1135
Byzantine calendar	7281 – 7282
Chinese calendar	壬辰年十二月初九日 (4409/4469-12-9) — to — 癸巳年十一月十八日 (4410/4470-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1489 – 1490
Ethiopian calendar	1765 – 1766
Hebrew calendar	5533 – 5534
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1829 – 1830
- Shaka Samvat	1695 – 1696
- Kali Yuga	4874 – 4875
Holocene calendar	11773
Iranian calendar	1151 – 1152
Islamic calendar	1186 – 1187
Japanese calendar	An'ei 2 (安永2年)
Korean calendar	4106
Thai solar calendar	2316

January 14 – William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, British ambassador to China and Governor-General of India (d. 1857)
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 4 – Étienne Maurice Gérard, Marshal of France and Prime Minister of France (d. 1852)
April 9 – Étienne Aignan, French writer, librettist, and playwright (d. 1824)
May 2 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
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)
June 13 – Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
July 23 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
August 22 – Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (d. 1858)
September 17 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849)
October 6 – Louis Philippe, King of the French (d. 1850)
November 6 – Henry Hunt, British politician (d. 1835)
December 9 – Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general and diplomat (d. 1827)
December 17 – Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (d. 1846)
December 21 – Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (d. 1858)
December 27 – Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer (d. 1857)

Deaths

January 21 – Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
February 20 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)
March 24 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (b. 1694)
May 8 – Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728)
May 15 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
June 27 – Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706)
July 5 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
July 12 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
July 23 – George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
August 3 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
August 27 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
September 23 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
August 20 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
October 30 – Philippe de La Guêpière, French architect (b. 1725)
November 16 – John Hawkesworth, English writer
November 19 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
date unknown – Ahmed Shah Abdali, Afghani founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724)