1773

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Years: 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 - 1773 - 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778

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.
• 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

Year in topic

• 1773 in science

Births

• January 27 - Prince Augustus of Great Britain, later Duke of Sussex, sixth son of King George III
• February 9 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (+ 1841)
• May 15 - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, statesman (+ 1859)
• May 19 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist
• July 5 - Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, later King of Etruria
• October 6 - Louis Philippe, Duc de Chartres, later Duc d'Orleans and King of the French.
• December 27 - Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer.

Deaths

• February 20 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy
• May 8 - Ali Bey
• July 23 - George Edwards, naturalist (* 1693)

Heads of states

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (1715-1774)
• Holy See - Clement XIV pope (1769-1774)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (1740-1786)
• Spain - Charles III King of Spain (1759-1788)
• Sweden - Gustav III King of Sweden (1771-1792)

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