Major Events
- Jan 17 Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War
- Feb 20 British Naval Officer John Moresby is the first European to discover Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, claims it for the United Kingdom
- May 27 Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia
- Jun 5 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
- Aug 26 First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
- Sep 18 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
- More 1873 Events
1873 in Sport
- May 23 1st Preakness Stakes: G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
Did You Know?
US Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail
Colette
Howard Carter
G. E. Moore
Enrico Caruso
Sergei Rachmaninoff
W. C. Handy
Jaap Eden
Teddy FlackMore People Born in 1873
Napoleon III
David Livingstone
John Stuart Mill
Robert McClureMore 1873 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1873
- Sep 25 Frontiersman and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok supposedly marries Calamity Jane according to the latter's daughter (disputed)
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Otto von Bismarck
Ulysses S. Grant
William Gladstone