1873 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1873?
- February 20, 1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
- March 1, 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
- March 3, 1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
- April 1, 1873 – The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
- April 13, 1873 – The Colfax Massacre takes place.
- May 9, 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
- May 12, 1873 – Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
- May 20, 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
- May 23, 1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- June 9, 1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
- June 18, 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- July 21, 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
- August 4, 1873 – 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.
- August 23, 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
- August 30, 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- September 1, 1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- September 15, 1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
- September 18, 1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
- October 3, 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
- October 20, 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
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