1773 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1773?
- January 1, 1773 – The hymn that became known as “Amazing Grace”, then titled “1 Chronicles 17:16–17” is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
- January 12, 1773 – The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
- January 17, 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
- April 27, 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- June 17, 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
- October 12, 1773 – America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
- October 13, 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
- October 14, 1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- December 16, 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
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