1873

Years:
1870 1871 1872 - 1873 - 1874 1875 1876

Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1873 in art
1873 in literature
1873 in music
1873 in science
1873 in sports
1873 in Canada

List of state leaders in 1873
List of religious leaders in 1873

Events

The United Kingdom declares war against Ghana's King Kofi KariKari, who was involved in the trading of slaves. The war ended by July and the British established the Gold Coast Colony.
January 17 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War.
February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I 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 United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
April 1 - The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547.
April 15 - 17 - Indian Wars: Second Battle of the Stronghold
May 9 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds Long Depression
May 23 - The Canadian 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 21 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express).
August 4 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
September 16 - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
September 18 - New York stock market crash.
November 6 - Formation of the Halifax Rugby Club.
November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Canada's second prime minister.
Coors Brewing Company begins making beer in Golden, Colorado.
DDT first synthesized.
Swedish arms company Bofors is incorporated.
Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
In Mexico, Veracruz 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 births

January 7 - Adolph Zukor, motion-picture studio pioneer (d. 1976)
January 10 - George Orton, Canadian athlete
January 12 - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner
January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel prize winner (d. 1950)
January 28 - Colette, writer (d. 1954)

February births

February 2 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961)
February 3 - Karl Jatho, German airplane pioneer
February 4 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete
February 13 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
February 27 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)

March births

March 3 - William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor (d. 1952)
March 11 – David Horsley, pioneer film executive (d. 1933)
March 19 - Max Reger, composer (d. 1916)

April births

April 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist (d. 1943)
April 7 - John McGraw, baseball coach, manager, player (d. 1934)
April 10 - Ky�sti Kallio, former Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1940)
April 22 - Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize winning author (d. 1945)

May births

May 4 - Joe De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood film director (d. 1940)
May 9 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois (d. 1933)
May 9 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
May 17 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
May 17 - Dorothy Richardson, writer (d. 1957)
May 26 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (d. 1958)

July births

July 1 - Alice Guy-Blach�, pioneer French/American filmmaker (d. 1968)

August births

August 26 - Lee De Forest, American inventor (d. 1961)

December births

December 11 - Josip Plemelj, Slovene mathematician (d. 1967)
William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher

Deaths

January 9 - Napoleon III, last emperor of France, in exile in England
January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author
January 20 - Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross
February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer
April 11 - Edward Canby, US Army General killed during peace negations with Captain Jack
May 6 - Jos� Antonio P�ez, First Venezuelan president
May 20 - Sir George-�tienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman
September 17 - Alexander Berry, Scotish adventurer, founder of Berry, Australia.
September 22 - Friedrich Frey-Heros�, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801)
September 23 - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (b. 1823)
October 3 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader, hanged for the murder of Edward Canby
October 6 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
December 14 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American geologist and naturalist

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