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