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•  January 1, 1873 – Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
•  February 20, 1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
•  March 1, 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
•  March 22, 1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
•  May 20, 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
•  May 23, 1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
•  July 1, 1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
•  July 21, 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
•  August 2, 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
•  September 18, 1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.

•  January 3, 1873 – Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
•  January 10, 1873 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
•  February 25, 1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
•  April 7, 1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
•  May 3, 1873 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
•  May 17, 1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
•  August 17, 1873 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
•  October 30, 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
•  November 10, 1873 – Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (d. 1949)
•  November 22, 1873 – L.S. Amery, British politician (d. 1955)