1873

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1870 1871 1872 - 1873 - 1874 1875 1876

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 17 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War.
February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic.
February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic.
February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California
March 1 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
March 3 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
April 1 - The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547.
April 15 - 17 - Indian Wars: Second Battle of the Stronghold

May 9 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds Long Depression
May 23 - The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police (which will be renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920).
June 4 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War ends with the capture of Captain Jack.
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).

September 16 - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
September 18 - New York stock market crash.
November 6 - Formation of the Halifax Rugby Club.
November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Canada's second prime minister.
November 17 - From Pest, Buda and buda, Budapest, Hungary's capital is formed.

Glasgow Rangers Football Club are founded. Rangers go on to be the most successfull 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.
DDT first synthesized.
Swedish arms company Bofors is incorporated.
Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
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