1873
Year 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1873
January - March
April - June
July - September
July 1 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation .
July 21 - At Adair, Iowa , Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express).
August 4 - Indian Wars : While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana , the Seventh Cavalry , under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer , clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed).
August 12 - A peace treaty is signed between Imperial Russia and the Khanate of Khiva , making the khanate a Russian protectorate.
September 16 - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War .
September 17 - The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, later The Ohio State University , opens its doors with 25 students, including two women.
September 18 - New York stock market crash, triggering the panic of 1873 (again part of the Long Depression).
September 25 - Classes begin at Drury University .
October - December
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Births
January - June
January 2 - Saint Therese of Lisieux , Catholic saint and mystic (d. 1897 )
January 7 - Adolph Zukor , Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976 )
January 8 - Iuliu Maniu , Romanian politician (d. 1953 )
January 10 - George Orton , Canadian athlete (d. 1958 )
January 12 - Spiridon Louis , Greek runner (d. 1940 )
January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen , Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950 )
January 28 - Colette , French writer (d. 1954 )
January 30 - Vasily Balabanov , an administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (d. 1947 )
February 2 - Maurice Tourneur , French film director (d. 1961 )
February 3 - Hugh Trenchard , British military aviation pioneer (d. 1956 )
February 3 - Karl Jatho , German aviation pioneer (d. 1933 )
February 4 - Étienne Desmarteau , Canadian athlete (d. 1905 )
February 13 - Feodor Chaliapin , Russian bass (d. 1938 )
February 15 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin , German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964 )
February 25 - Enrico Caruso , Italian tenor (d. 1921 )
March 3 - William Green , American labor leader (d. 1952 )
March 11 - David Horsley , English-born film executive (d. 1933 )
March 19 - Max Reger , German composer (d. 1916 )
April 1 (N.S. ); March 20 (O.S. ) - Sergei Rachmaninoff , Russian composer and pianist (d. 1943 )
April 7 - John McGraw , baseball player and manager (d. 1934 )
April 10 - Kyösti Kallio , Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1940 )
April 19 - Sydney Barnes , English cricketer (d. 1967 )
April 22 - Ellen Glasgow , American writer (d. 1945 )
May - Leon Frank Czolgosz , assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901 )
May 4 - Joe De Grasse , Canadian film director (d. 1940 )
May 9 - Anton Cermak , Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933 )
May 17
May 28 - D.D. Sheehan , Irish politician (d. 1948 )
June 3 - Otto Loewi , German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961 )
June 26 - Alexis Carrel , French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1944 )
July - December
July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché , French-American filmmaker (d. 1968 )
July 20 - Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aviation pioneer (d. 1932 )
August 5 - Joseph Russell Knowland , American politician and newspaperman (d. 1966 )
August 13 - Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
August 17 - John A. Sampson , American gynecologist (d. 1946 )
August 26 - Lee De Forest , American inventor (d. 1961 )
September 1 - Sir Guy Standing , British actor (d. 1937 )
September 5 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III , American military officer, inventor, engineer (d. 1942 )
September 8 - David O. McKay , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970 )
September 20
September 21 - Papa Jack Laine , jazz musician (d. 1966 )
September 26 - Wac?aw Berent , Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940 )
October 2 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill , U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District . (d. 1924 )
October 3 - Emily Post , American etiquette expert (d. 1960 )
October 9 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen , American businessman (d. 1939 )
October 14 - Ray Ewry , American athlete (d. 1937 )
October 19
October 26
November 16 - W. C. Handy , American blues composer (d. 1958 )
November 22 - Johnny Tyldesley , English cricketer (d. 1930 )
December 7 - Willa Cather , American novelist (d. 1947 )
December 11 - Josip Plemelj , Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967 )
December 17 - Ford Madox Ford , English writer (d. 1939 )
December 20 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa , Japanese historian(d. 1948 )
December 26 - Thomas Wass , Nottinghamshire bowler (d. 1953 )
December 30 - Al Smith , American politician (d. 1944 )
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Deaths
January - June
January 9 - Napoleon III , last Emperor of the French (b. 1808 )
January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , English writer (b. 1803 )
January 23 - Jothi Ramalinga Swamigal , Hindu religious leader (b. 1823 )
January 29 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau , Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799 )
February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer (b. 1814 )
February 19 - Vasil Levski , Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837 )
March 10 - John Torrey , American botanist (b. 1796 )
March 24 - Mary Ann Cotton , English serial killer (b.1832 )
March 25 - Wilhelm Marstrand , Danish painter (b. 1810 )
April 11 - Edward Canby , U.S. general (b. 1817 )
April 18 - Justus von Liebig , German chemist (b. 1803 )
April 27 - William Charles Macready , English actor (b. 1793 )
May 4 - David Livingstone , Scottish explorer of Africa (b. 1813 )
May 6 - José Antonio Páez , first President of Venezuela (b. 1790 )
May 7 - Salmon P. Chase , Chief Justice of the United States (b.1808 )
May 8 - John Stuart Mill , British philosopher (b. 1806 )
May 15 - Alexandru Ioan Cuza ,First Romania's reigning (b. 1820 )
May 20 - George-Étienne Cartier , Canadian statesman (b. 1814 )
May 29 - Edouard de Verneuil , palaeontologist (b. 1805 )
June 1 - Joseph Howe , Canadian politician (b. 1804 )
July - December
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