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December 16 : American protesters stage "Boston Tea Party "1773 (MDCCLXXIII ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Tuesday of theJulian calendar , the 1773rd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 73rd year of the18th century , and the 4th year of the1770s decade. As of the start of 1773, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 12 :Charleston Museum , the first museum in the American colonies is establishedJanuary 1 – The hymn that becomes known asAmazing Grace John Newton in the town ofOlney, Buckinghamshire , England.January 12 – The first museum in the American colonies is established inCharleston, South Carolina ; in 1915, it is formally incorporated as theCharleston Museum .[ 1] January 17 –Second voyage of James Cook :Captain Cook inHMS Resolution (1771) becomes the first European explorer to cross theAntarctic Circle .[ 2] January 18 – The first opera performance in theSwedish language ,Thetis and Phelée , performed byCarl Stenborg andElisabeth Olin inBollhuset inStockholm ,Sweden , marks the establishment of theRoyal Swedish Opera .February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from KingStanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's threatened partition between three foreign powers.[ 3] February 27 – The construction ofChrist Church (Alexandria, Virginia) , known for being the house of worship forGeorge Washington and the visiting site for subsequent U.S. presidents, is completed.[ 1] March 9 –19 –Second voyage of James Cook :Tobias Furneaux inHMS Adventure (1771) explores the coast ofVan Diemen's Land .[ 4] March 15 – The popular (and enduring) comedyShe Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith , is performed for the first time, premiering at London'sCovent Garden Theatre .[ 5] October 10 October 12 – America's firstinsane asylum opens forPersons of Insane and Disordered Minds inWilliamsburg, Virginia .October 13 –French astronomer Charles Messier discovers theWhirlpool Galaxy interacting ,grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 31 millionlight-years , in theconstellation Canes Venatici October 14 – TheKomisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish forCommission for the Education of the People ), formed in thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , is considered to be the world's first ministry of education.November 10 – Four ships – theDartmouth , theEleanor , theBeaver and theWilliam – depart Britain for America, carrying the first Indian tea to be subject to the newly enacted taxes. TheWilliam is lost in a storm; theDartmouth is the first ship to reachBoston , docking onNovember 28 .[ 9] December 16 –Boston Tea Party : A group of Americancolonists , dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of theEast India Company and dump their cargo of tea intoBoston Harbor , in protest against British tax policies.[ 6] December 23 –Moscow State Academy of Choreography was founded[ 10] Catherine II . It is the second ballet school in Russia afterVaganova Academy of Russian Ballet .Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) : Russian forces fail to takeSilistria .Emelian Pugachev startsPugachev's Rebellion inRussia , attacking and occupyingSamara .John Harrison wins theLongitude prize , for his invention of themarine chronometer .[ 11] Hilaire Rouelle discoversurea .Istanbul Technical University is established (under the name ofRoyal School of Naval Engineering ) as the world's first comprehensive institution of higher learning dedicated to engineering education.Marsala wine first shipped to England.[ 12] InChina , written work begins on theComplete Library of the Four Treasuries Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century). Upon completion in1782 , the books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 millionChinese characters . Scottish judgeJames Burnett, Lord Monboddo , begins publication ofOf the Origin and Progress of Language , a contribution toevolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment .Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock publishes the last fivecantos of hisepic poem Der Messias inHamburg .Robert Fullerton William Henry Harrison Klemens von Metternich May 15 – PrinceKlemens Wenzel von Metternich , Austrian statesman (d.1859 )May 19 –Arthur Aikin , English chemist and mineralogist (d.1854 )May 31 –Ludwig Tieck , German writer (d.1853 )June 13 –Thomas Young , English scientist (d.1829 )July 23 –Thomas Brisbane , Scottish astronomer,Governor of New South Wales (d.1860 )August 12 –Karl Faber , German historian (d.1853 )August 22 –Aimé Bonpland , French explorer, botanist (d.1858 )September 17 –Jonathan Alder , Americansettler (d.1849 )Louis Philippe I October 4 –Harriet Auber , English poet, hymnist (d.1862 )October 6 –Louis Philippe I , King of the French (d.1850 )November 6 –Henry Hunt , British politician (d.1835 )November 24 –Shadrach Bond , American politician and the firstgovernor of Illinois (d.1832 )December 9 –Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt , French general, diplomat (d.1827 )December 17 –Sylvain Charles Valée ,Marshal of France (d.1846 )December 21 –Robert Brown , Scottish botanist (d.1858 )December 27 –Sir George Cayley , English aviation pioneer (d.1857 )Unknown –Johann Gottfried Arnold , German cellist (d.1806 )Unknown –Kyra Frosini , Greek heroine (d.1800 )Unknown –Isabel Zendal , Spanish nurseUnknown –Anna Moór , Hungarian actress (d.1841 )Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield March 24 March 20 –Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben , German noble (b.1715 )May 8 –Ali Bey Al-Kabir , Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b.1728 )May 15 –Alban Butler , English Catholic priest, writer (b.1710 )May 28 –John Wayles , American lawyer and planter (b.1715 )June 21 –Jorge Juan y Santacilia , Spanish geodesist (b.1713 )June 27 –Mentewab , dowager Empress ofEthiopia (b. c.1706 )July 5 –Francisco José Freire , Portuguese historian, philologist (b.1719 )July 12 –Johann Joachim Quantz , German flutist, composer (b.1697 )July 23 –George Edwards , English ornithologist and naturalist (b.1694 )July 25 –Axel Löwen , Swedish duke (b.1686 )August 3 –Stanisław Konarski , Polish writer (b.1700 )August 19 August 20 –Enrique Florez , Spanish historian (b.1701 )September 23 –Johan Ernst Gunnerus , Norwegian bishop and botanist (b.1718 )October 14 –Septimanie d'Egmont , Frenchsalonist (b.1740 )October 30 –Philippe de La Guêpière , French architect (b.1725 )November 2 –John Glas , Scottish minister (b.1695 )November 7 –Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine , French royal (b.1714 )Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz ^a b c Carruth, Gordon, ed. (1962).The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates 79-81 . ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.ISBN 0-14-102715-0 ^ Burke, Edmund , ed. (1774).The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1773 . J. Dodsley. p. 25.^ Cook, James (1821).The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World . Vol. III: Being the First of the Second Voyage. London: Longman, Hurst and Rees. pp. 122– 128. ^ Corman, Brian (2013).The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy . Broadview Press. p. 359. ^a b c Williams, Hywel (2005).Cassell's Chronology of World History 327–328 .ISBN 0-304-35730-8 ^ Rose, William I.; et al., eds. (June 2004).Natural Hazards in El Salvador Geological Society of America . p. 394.ISBN 978-0-8137-2375-4 ^ du Quenoy, Paul (2014). "Arabs under Tsarist Rule: The Russian Occupation of Beirut, 1773–1774".Russian History .41 (2):128– 141.doi :10.1163/18763316-04102002 . ^ Keith R. Dawson,Caroline Princess of Wales & Other Forgotten People of History (Strategic Book Publishing, 2010) p67 ^ "История" .balletacademy.ru . RetrievedFebruary 5, 2024 .^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800" . Archived fromthe original on August 17, 2007. RetrievedAugust 25, 2007 .^ "Marsala".The Oxford Companion to Wine the original on August 8, 2008 – via Wine Pros archive. ^ Jón Espólín: Íslands Árbækur í sögu-formi. X. deild, prentað á kostnað ens íslenzka Bókmenntafélags, Kaupmannahöfn 1848. Blaðsíða 34. (Ljósprentuð 2. útgáfa 1947.) 
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