1873 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1873?
- January 1, 1873 – Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
- January 17, 1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
- February 18, 1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
- 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 4, 1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
- May 9, 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
- May 12, 1873 – Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
- 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.
- July 1, 1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 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 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.
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: December 2, 1873
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
Share or Link to This Page: