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
March 22- Emancipation Day for Puerto Rico
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
Undated
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 - 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 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 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 - Wacław 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)
- date unknown
- See also Category: 1873 births.
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)
- 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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