1773

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1773 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1773
MDCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita2526
Armenian calendar1222
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԲ
Assyrian calendar6523
Balinese saka calendar1694–1695
Bengali calendar1180
Berber calendar2723
British Regnal year13 Geo. 3 – 14 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2317
Burmese calendar1135
Byzantine calendar7281–7282
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4469 or 4409
    — to —
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4470 or 4410
Coptic calendar1489–1490
Discordian calendar2939
Ethiopian calendar1765–1766
Hebrew calendar5533–5534
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1829–1830
 - Shaka Samvat1694–1695
 - Kali Yuga4873–4874
Holocene calendar11773
Igbo calendar773–774
Iranian calendar1151–1152
Islamic calendar1186–1187
Japanese calendarAn'ei 2
(安永２年)
Javanese calendar1698–1699
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4106
Minguo calendar139 before ROC
民前139年
Nanakshahi calendar305
Thai solar calendar2315–2316
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1899 or 1518 or 746
    — to —
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1900 or 1519 or 747
January 12: Charleston Museum, the first museum in the American colonies is established
December 16: Boston Tea Party

1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1773rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 773rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1773, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

  • January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as Amazing Grace, at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
  • January 12 – The first museum in the American colonies is established in Charleston, South Carolina; in 1915, it is formally incorporated as the Charleston Museum.[1]
  • January 17 – Second voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook in HMS Resolution (1771) becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.[2]
  • January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, Thetis and Phelée, performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset in Stockholm, Sweden, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.
  • February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from King Stanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's threatened partition between three foreign powers.[3]
  • February 27 – The construction of Christ Church (Alexandria, Virginia), known for being the house of worship for George Washington and the visiting site for subsequent U.S. presidents, is completed.[1]
  • March 9–19 – Second voyage of James Cook: Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure (1771) explores the coast of Van Diemen's Land.[4]
  • March 15 – The popular (and enduring) comedy She Stoops to Conquer, by Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith, is performed for the first time, premiering at London's Covent Garden Theatre.[5]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

  • 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 Native Americans, 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 world's first ministry of education.
  • November 10 – Four ships— the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, the Beaver and the William— depart Britain for America, carrying the first Indian tea to be subject to the newly enacted taxes. The William is lost in a storm; the Dartmouth is the first ship to reach Boston, docking on November 28.[8]
  • December 16 – Boston Tea Party: A group of American colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor, in protest against British tax policies.[6]

Date unknown[]

  • Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forces fail to take Silistria.
  • Emelian Pugachev starts Pugachev's Rebellion in Russia, attacking and occupying Samara.
  • John Harrison wins the Longitude prize, for his invention of the marine chronometer.[9]
  • Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
  • Istanbul Technical University is established (under the name of Royal School of Naval Engineering) as the world's first comprehensive institution of higher learning dedicated to engineering education.
  • Marsala wine first shipped to England.[10]
  • 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.
  • Scottish judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, begins publication of Of the Origin and Progress of Language, a contribution to evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
  • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock publishes the last five cantos of his epic poem Der Messias in Hamburg.

Births[]

Robert Fullerton
William Henry Harrison
Klemens von Metternich
Louis Philippe I

Deaths[]

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
  • November 8 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
  • November 16 – John Hawkesworth, English writer
  • November 19 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Carruth, Gordon, ed. (1962). The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates (3rd ed.). Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 79-81.
  2. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  3. ^ Burke, Edmund, ed. (1774). The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1773. J. Dodsley. p. 25.
  4. ^ Cook, James (1821). The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World, Vol. III: Being the First of the Second Voyage. London: Longman, Hurst and Rees. pp. 122–128.
  5. ^ Corman, Brian (2013). The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Broadview Press. p. 359.
  6. ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 327–328. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  7. ^ Rose, William I.; et al., eds. (June 2004). Natural Hazards in El Salvador. Geological Society of America. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-8137-2375-4.
  8. ^ Keith R. Dawson, Caroline Princess of Wales & Other Forgotten People of History (Strategic Book Publishing, 2010) p67
  9. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". Archived from the original on August 17, 2007. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
  10. ^ "Marsala". The Oxford Companion to Wine. August 8, 2008. Archived from the original on May 1, 2015 – via Wine Pros archive.

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