Historical Events for Year 1773
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Months in Year 1773: January February March April June July September October December
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
