Today in History for Year 1873

Months in Year 1873: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 74 of 74

Jan 1st - Origin of Japanese Era
Jan 6th - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
Jan 6th - US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
Jan 11th - 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
Jan 13th - P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
Jan 14th - "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
Jan 14th - P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
Jan 17th - A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
Jan 22nd - Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
Feb 11th - Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
Feb 12th - Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
Feb 20th - University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
Feb 27th - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
Mar 1st - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
Mar 3rd - Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
Mar 3rd - US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively
Mar 3rd - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
Mar 22nd - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
Apr 1st - British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
Apr 1st - Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
Apr 13th - Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
May 1st - 1st US postal card issued
May 1st - Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Exposition in Vienna
May 7th - US marines attack Panama
May 9th - Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
May 12th - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.
Clothing Designer Levi Strauss May 20th - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent first blue jeans with copper rivets
May 23rd - 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
May 23rd - Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms
May 23rd - Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
May 24th - Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris
Jun 2nd - Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
Jun 4th - 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
Jun 5th - Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
Jun 7th - 7th Belmont: James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75
Jun 9th - Alexandra Palace burnt down, after being open for only 16 days.
Jun 16th - Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians
Jun 18th - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
Jun 22nd - Prince Edward Island joins Canada
Jul 1st - Henry Ossian Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
Jul 1st - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
Jul 4th - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
Jul 10th - French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
Outlaw Jesse James Jul 21st - Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)
Aug 1st - SF's 1st cable car begins service
Aug 2nd - 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
Aug 4th - Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
Aug 14th - "Field & Stream" begins publishing
Aug 18th - 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California (14,494')
Aug 23rd - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
Aug 26th - 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
Aug 30th - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
Sep 1st - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
Sep 6th - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
Sep 15th - Last German troops leave France
Sep 16th - German troops leave France
Sep 17th - 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
Sep 18th - Government bond agent Jay Cooke &amp Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873
US Calvary Commander George Armstrong Custer Sep 19th - Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
Sep 20th - Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
Sep 23rd - Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
Oct 3rd - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
Oct 4th - Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
Oct 8th - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
Oct 11th - Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
Oct 18th - 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
Oct 18th - Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
Oct 20th - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC)
Oct 30th - P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (NYC)
Nov 4th - Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
Nov 12th - Bay District Race Track opens
Nov 20th - Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
Dec 6th - 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
Dec 30th - American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 179

Jan 1st - Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
Jan 2nd - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
Jan 2nd - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
Jan 3rd - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
Jan 6th - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
Jan 7th - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
Jan 8th - Lucien Capet, composer
Jan 8th - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
Jan 8th - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
Jan 9th - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
Jan 10th - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
Jan 10th - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
Jan 11th - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
Jan 12th - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940)
Jan 15th - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
Jan 16th - Boyd Alexander, English explorer
Jan 17th - Francois Rasse, composer
Jan 19th - Hans E Blaich, writer
Jan 20th - Charles A Ellwood, US, sociologist/psychologist
Jan 20th - Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944)
Novelist and Performer Colette (Jan 28th) Jan 28th - Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle], Paris, French novelist and performer (Gigi)
Jan 28th - M A Noble, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder at turn of century)
Jan 29th - Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
Jan 30th - Rose Melville, actress (Sis)
Jan 30th - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
Feb 1st - Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
Feb 1st - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
Feb 1st - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
Feb 2nd - Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38)
Feb 2nd - Johan P earl van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat
Feb 2nd - Leopold Fall, Austria, operetta composer (Dollar Princess)
Feb 3rd - Ernest B Allo, French theologist
Feb 4th - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
Feb 11th - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
Feb 22nd - Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
Feb 23rd - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
Feb 23rd - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
Feb 25th - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
Feb 26th - Ewoud van Everdingen, Dutch meteorologist
Mar 3rd - William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
Mar 4th - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
Mar 4th - John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
Mar 5th - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
Mar 7th - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
Mar 10th - Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
Mar 11th - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
Mar 14th - Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
Mar 15th - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
Mar 15th - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
Mar 16th - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
Mar 17th - Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
Mar 17th - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
Mar 19th - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
Mar 20th - Sergei V Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1]
Mar 25th - Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
Mar 26th - [Louise] Sophie de Vries, actress (On Hope of Blessing)
Mar 29th - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
Apr 1st - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
Apr 7th - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
Apr 11th - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
Apr 13th - Theodore Morse, composer
Apr 13th - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
Apr 14th - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
Apr 18th - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
Apr 19th - Sydney Barnes, cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
Apr 22nd - Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)
Apr 24th - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
Apr 26th - Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon)
Apr 27th - Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)
Apr 28th - Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
Apr 29th - Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
May 3rd - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [OS]
May 3rd - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den)
May 3rd - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
May 4th - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
May 7th - Clarence Dickinson, composer
May 8th - Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer (England capt 1909-10 later official)
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter (May 9th) May 9th - Howard Carter, London, British archaeologist and egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
May 9th - Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater)
May 9th - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
May 10th - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor
May 10th - Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
May 15th - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]
May 17th - Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist
May 17th - Henri Barbusse, Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu)
May 19th - Federico Gerdes, composer
May 21st - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
May 21st - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
May 21st - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
May 23rd - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
May 26th - Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder (New Taalgids)
May 26th - Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
Jun 3rd - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936)
Jun 7th - Landon Ronald, composer
Jun 21st - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
Jun 24th - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
Jun 28th - Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)
Jul 1st - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
Jul 6th - Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
Jul 17th - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 62 of 62

Jan 3rd - John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71
Jan 9th - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
Jan 18th - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
Jan 20th - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
Jan 28th - Henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57
Feb 1st - Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies
Feb 7th - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
Feb 13th - Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies
Feb 14th - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer, dies at 52
Feb 19th - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
Mar 5th - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer, dies at 34
Mar 20th - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52
Mar 25th - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
Mar 27th - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
Mar 29th - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
Mar 30th - Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63
Apr 11th - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
Apr 13th - Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90
Apr 17th - Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60
Apr 17th - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian artist (b. 1783)
Apr 18th - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
Apr 20th - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
Apr 25th - Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43
Apr 27th - William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
Apr 28th - A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone (May 1st) May 1st - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60
May 8th - John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
May 13th - Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
May 14th - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
May 15th - Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
May 20th - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
May 26th - August Conradi, composer, dies at 51
Jun 1st - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
Jun 2nd - Francois Hainl, composer, dies at 65
Jun 13th - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer, dies at 51
Jun 14th - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92
Jun 29th - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
Jul 3rd - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
Jul 14th - Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer, dies at 63
Aug 2nd - Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53
Aug 4th - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
Aug 26th - Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57
Aug 31st - Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen (Dutch East Indies), dies at 70
Sep 17th - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
Sep 20th - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
Sep 22nd - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
Sep 23rd - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
Sep 28th - Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37
Oct 2nd - Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies
Oct 3rd - Kintpuash, [Captain Jack], fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies
Oct 6th - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
Oct 9th - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
Oct 21st - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
Oct 29th - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
Oct 29th - Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
Oct 29th - Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78
Nov 3rd - Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc-indians, dies
Nov 8th - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
Dec 6th - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24
Dec 14th - J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
Dec 21st - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
Dec 24th - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795)