1773 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1773 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George III
- Prime Minister – Lord North (Tory)
Events
- 17 January – Second voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook in HMS Resolution (1771) becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.[1]
- March – General Turnpike Act regulates the system of road tolls.[2]
- 15 March - First performance of Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.[3]
- 27 April - Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- 10 May - Tea Act comes into force.[4]
- May
- Parliament passes the Regulating Act creating the office of governor general, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory under British East India Company rule in India.[4]
- With an EWP total of 151.8 millimetres or 5.98 inches, this is the wettest May on record and the solitary still-standing record wet month from the eighteenth century.[5]
- 16 December - A group of American colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor in a protest against British tax policies that became known as the Boston Tea Party.[4]
Undated
- John Harrison receives the Longitude prize for his invention of the first marine chronometer.[6]
- An informal Stock Exchange opens at Threadneedle Street in London.[2]
- Penny Post introduced in Edinburgh.[7]
Publications
- Scottish judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, begins publication of Of the Origin and Progress of Language, a contribution to evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
- The Jockey Club's first Race calendar, edited by James Weatherby.[2]
Births
- 14 January - William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, ambassador to China and Governor-General of India (died 1857)
- 27 January - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (died 1843)
- 6 April - James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher (died 1836)
- 19 May - Arthur Aikin, chemist and mineralogist (died 1854)
- 13 June - Thomas Young, scientist (died 1829)
- 23 July - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
- 23 October - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (died 1850)
- 6 November - Henry Hunt, politician (died 1835)
- 21 December - Robert Brown, botanist (died 1858)
- 27 December - George Cayley, aviation pioneer (died 1857)
Deaths
- 9 February - John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
- 24 March - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters (born 1694)
- 15 May - Alban Butler, Catholic priest and writer (born 1710)
- 23 July - George Edwards, naturalist (born 1693)
- 24 August - George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, politician (born 1709)
- 16 November - John Hawkesworth, writer (born c. 1715)
- 20 November - Charles Jennens, landowner (born c. 1700)
References
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- 1 2 3 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 226–227. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ "She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night". theatrehistory.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- 1 2 3 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 327–328. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Hadley Center Ranked EWP
- ↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- ↑ "Provincial Penny Posts". British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
See also
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