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Year 1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1773

January - June

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
January 18 - The first Opera-performance in the Swedish language, "Thetis and Phelée", performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.
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 - In Egypt, Ottoman rebels revolt, killing Ali Bey, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt.

July - December

July 21 - Under the pressure of the Bourbon courts Pope Clement XIV suppresses the Society of Jesus

September 11 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled , which is written by Benjamin Franklin.

October 10 - Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by American Indians in which his son is killed.

October 10 - Paul Revere marries Rachel Walker, his second wife.

October 12 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Williamsburg, Virginia.

October 13 - French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.

October 14 - Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education) formed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is considered to be the first ministry of education in the history of mankind.

December 16 - Boston Tea Party

Undated

Antigua Guatemala is destroyed by an earthquake and the capital of Guatemala is moved to Guatemala City.

Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II expels Jesuits from the Empire, and Pope Clement XIV orders the dissolution of the Society of Jesus.

Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forces fail to take Silistria.

Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.

Istanbul Technical University is established (under the original name of Royal School of Naval Engineering) as the world's first comprehensive institution of higher learning dedicated to engineering education. Pioneer through the ages...(ITU)

In China, written work begins on the Siku Quanshu, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history (surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th century). Upon completion in 1782, the books were bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million Chinese characters.

H4 & John Harrison win Longitude prize for Marine chronometer.

Emelian Pugachev starts revolt.

Regulating Act creats the office of governor general, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory controlled by The British East India Company.

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