Today in History for Year 1773

Months in Year 1773: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 6th - Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
Jan 12th - 1st US public museum established (Charlestown SC)
Jan 17th - Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)
Feb 26th - Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
Mar 12th - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
Mar 18th - Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London
Apr 27th - British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
Jun 17th - Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
Jul 20th - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
Jul 21st - Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
Jul 29th - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
Sep 11th - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
Oct 12th - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
Oct 13th - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
Oct 14th - The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.
Oct 14th - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
Dec 16th - Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
Dec 26th - Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 4th - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
Jan 5th - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer
Jan 9th - Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
Feb 2nd - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
Feb 9th - William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
Feb 22nd - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
Mar 4th - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
Mar 7th - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
Mar 16th - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
Mar 26th - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
Mar 28th - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
Apr 6th - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
Apr 9th - Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824
Apr 22nd - Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader
Apr 24th - Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
May 2nd - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
May 3rd - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
May 15th - Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince
May 19th - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
May 26th - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
May 29th - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
May 31st - Ludwig Tieck, writer
Jun 2nd - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
Jun 3rd - Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
Jun 3rd - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
Jun 13th - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference)
Jul 6th - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
Jul 13th - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art)
Jul 23rd - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
Jul 27th - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
Aug 22nd - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
Aug 23rd - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
Aug 29th - Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)
Sep 24th - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
Sep 25th - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
Oct 6th - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
Oct 23rd - Pietro Generali, composer
Dec 24th - Joseph Wolfl, composer
Dec 27th - George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 29 of 29

Jan 4th - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
Jan 21st - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
Feb 20th - Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71
Mar 1st - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
Mar 1st - Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
Mar 13th - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
Mar 24th - Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
Apr 19th - Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43
May 8th - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies (b. 1728)
May 15th - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
May 24th - Jan Zach, composer, dies at 73
Jun 27th - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
Jul 5th - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
Jul 7th - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
Jul 12th - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
Jul 23rd - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
Aug 3rd - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
Aug 20th - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
Aug 22nd - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
Aug 25th - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29
Aug 27th - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
Sep 20th - Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
Sep 23rd - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
Oct 21st - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78
Oct 26th - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
Nov 16th - John Hawkesworth, English writer
Nov 19th - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
Nov 22nd - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
Nov 25th - Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66