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1873 (''' MDCCCLXXIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
- Toronto Argonauts are founded. The oldest pro sports team still playing in North America.
- Rangers F.C. are founded. Rangers go on to be the most successful club in the world in terms of trophies won.
- The United Kingdom declares war against Ghana 's King Kofi KariKari, who was involved in the trading of Slaves . The war ended by July and the British established the Gold Coast Colony .
- Coors Brewing Company begins making Beer in Golden, Colorado .
- Heineken Brewery is founded in Amsterdam , the Netherlands .
- DDT first synthesized.
- Swedish arms company Bofors is incorporated.
- In Mexico , Veracruz to Mexico City railroad completed.
- Royal Montreal Club in Montreal, Quebec is founded, becoming the first permanent Golf club in North America .
- Henry Rose exhibits Barbed Wire at an Illinois county fair, which is taken up by Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish , who invent a machine to mass-produce it.
- Britain puts pressure on Sultan Barghash Sayyid who closes slave markets in Zanzibar
- Peter Tchaikovsky composes ''The Tempest''
- First running of the Preakness Stakes horse race in Baltimore, Maryland
- SUN was founded
- Womans Temperance League organized by Eliza Daniel Stewart
- Central Park is officially completed in New York City , New York .
Births
January-March
- January 2 - Saint Thérèse De Lisieux , Roman Catholic nun (d. 1897 )
- January 7 - Adolph Zukor , Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976 )
- 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 )
- 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-June
- 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 - Henri Barbusse , French novelist and journalist (d. 1935 )
- May 17 - Dorothy Richardson , English feminist writer (d. 1957 )
- 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-September
- July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché , French-American filmmaker (d. 1968 )
- July 20 - Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aviation pioneer (d. 1932 )
- 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 - Sidney Olcott , pioneer film director (d. 1949 )
- September 20 - Ferenc Szisz , Hungarian-born race car driver (d. 1944 )
- September 21 - Papa Jack Laine , jazz musician (d. 1966 )
October-December
- October 14 - Ray Ewry , American athlete (d. 1937 )
- October 19 - Jaap Eden , Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925 )
- October 26 - Thorvald Stauning , Prime Minister Of Denmark (d. 1942 )
- 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 Maddox Ford , English writer (d. 1939 )
- December 26 - Thomas Wass , Nottinghamshire Bowler (d. 1953 )
- December 30 - Al Smith , American politician (d. 1944 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
- January 9 - Napoleon III , last Emperor of France (b. 1808 )
- January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , English writer (b. 1803
- 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 )
- April 11 - Edward Canby , U.S. general (b. 1817 )
- April 18 - Justus Von Liebig , German chemist (b. 1803 )
- 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 20 - George-Étienne Cartier , Canadian statesman (b. 1814 )
- June 1 - Joseph Howe , Canadian politician (b. 1804 )
- September 17 - Alexander Berry , Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (b. 1781 )
- September 22 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé , Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801 )
- September 23 - Jean Chacornac , French astronomer (b. 1823 )
- December 14 - Louis Agassiz , Swiss-born geologist and naturalist (b. 1807 )
- Tekle Giyorgis II Of Ethiopia , Emperor Of Ethiopia
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