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1773 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1773
– The hymn that became known as “Amazing Grace”, then titled “1 Chronicles 17:16–17” is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
January 12, 1773
– The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
January 17, 1773
– Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
April 27, 1773
– The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
June 17, 1773
– Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
October 12, 1773
– America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
October 13, 1773
– The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
October 14, 1773
– The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
December 16, 1773
– American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
Who Were Born On 1773?
March 16, 1773
– Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
March 26, 1773
– Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838)
March 28, 1773
– Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
May 19, 1773
– Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
May 31, 1773
– Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d. 1853)
June 13, 1773
– Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
July 27, 1773
– Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
September 25, 1773
– Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
October 6, 1773
– King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
December 27, 1773
– George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (d. 1857)