1773
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1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
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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
- 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.
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Births
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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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)
- 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 20 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
- November 16 - John Hawkesworth, English writer
- Ahmad Shah, Afghani founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724)
