1873 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1873?
- January 1, 1873 – Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
- February 11, 1873 – King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
- February 18, 1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
- 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.
- March 22, 1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
- 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 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 1, 1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 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 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 9, 1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
- October 20, 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
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