1773

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s

Years: 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 - 1773 - 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778

• January 12 - The first American museum open to the public is opened in (Charleston, South Carolina).
• January 17 - Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle
• April 27 or May 10 - The British Parliament passes the Tea Act[?], designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• May 8 - Ali Bey[?] dies of wounds recieved in a skirmish with Ottoman rebels
• December 16 -- Boston Tea Party

• Antigua is destroyed by an Earthquake
• The capital of Guatemala is moved to Guatemala City
• Holy Roman Emperor Josef II[?] expels Jesuits from the Empire, and Pope Clement XIV orders the dissolution of the Society of Jesus.
• Baron de Morveau[?] experiments with chlorine as a disinfectant
• Daniel Boone leads some pioneers into Kentucky. "Native American Indians" attack, and Boone's son is killed
• Ottoman Sultan Mustapha III[?] dies, and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid[?]
• Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea

Births

• January 27 - Prince Augustus of Great Britain[?], later Duke of Sussex, sixth son of King George III
• February 9 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (+ 1841)
• May 15 - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, statesman (+ 1859)
• July 5 - Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma[?], later King of Etruria
• October 6 - Louis Philippe, Duc de Chartres, later Duc d'Orleans and King of the French

Deaths

• February 20 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy
• May 8 - Ali Bey[?]
• May 25 - Mustapha III[?], Ottoman Sultan