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== Events ==
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===January–March===
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* [[March 3]] – [[Censorship]]: The [[United States Congress]] enacts the [[Comstock Law]], making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
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* [[March 4]] –  [[Ulysses S. Grant]] is [[Second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant|sworn in]] for a second term, as President of the United States.
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* [[May]] – 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.
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* [[May 9]] –  ''Der Gründerkrach'': The [[Wiener Börse]] ([[Vienna]] stock exchange) crash in [[Austria-Hungary]] ends the ''[[Gründerzeit]]'', and heralds the global [[Panic of 1873]] and [[Long Depression]].
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* [[May 20]] – In [[Chipping Norton]], England, rioters attempt to free the [[Ascott Martyrs]] –16 women sentenced to imprisonment, for attempting to dissuade [[strikebreaker]]s.
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* [[May 23]] – The Canadian Parliament establishes the [[North-West Mounted Police]] (which is renamed the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] in [[1920]]).
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* [[May 28]] – C. Laan brings order to the chaos created by the dockworker riots of [[Tripoli, Lebanon]].
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* [[July]] – The end of the war between the United Kingdom and [[Ashanti people|Ghana]]'s King Kofi KariKari, who is involved in the trading of [[slaves]], leads to the establishment of the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast Colony]].
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* [[July 5]] – New Rush in [[Griqualand West]], [[South Africa]] is renamed [[Kimberley, Northern Cape|Kimberley]].
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* [[August 12]] – A peace treaty is signed between [[Imperial Russia]] and the [[Khanate of Khiva]], making the khanate a Russian protectorate.
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* [[September 15]] – The [[International Meteorological Organization]] (IMO) is established.
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* [[September 16]] – German troops leave France, upon completion of payment of indemnity for the [[Franco-Prussian War]].
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* [[September 18]] – The New York stock market crash triggers the [[Panic of 1873]], part of the [[Long Depression]].
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* [[October]] – The [[Long Depression]] begins in the United States.
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* [[November 10]] – Establishment of the [[Home Ministry]] in Japan, introducing [[police services of the Empire of Japan]] on the European model.
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* [[November 18]]–[[November 21|21]] – [[Irish Home Rule movement]]: The [[Home Government Association]] reconstitutes itself as the [[Home Rule League]].
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* [[December 21]] – [[Francis Garnier]] is attacked outside [[Hanoi]] by [[Black Flag Army|Black Flag]] mercenaries fighting for the [[Vietnamese]].
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===Date unknown===
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* The [[League of the Three Emperors]] is created. It links the conservative monarchs of [[Austria-Hungary]], the [[German Empire]] and the [[Russian Empire]] in an alliance against radical movements.
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* The [[Sweden|Swedish]] arms company Aktiebolaget (AB) Bofors-Gullspång, better known as [[Bofors]], is founded.
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* In [[Mexico]], the [[Veracruz, Veracruz|Veracruz]]–Mexico City railroad is completed.
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1863 < 1864 < 1865 < 1866 < 1867 < 1868 < 1869 <1870 < 1871 < 1872 < 1873 > 1874 > 1875 > 1876 > 1877 > 1878 > 1879 > 1880 > 1881 > 1882 > 1883

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The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis in Europe and North America that started two decades of stagnation known as the "Long Depression"

Events

January–March

Date unknown


 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

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==A Quotation== 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedSummary
Napoleon III20 April 18089 January 1873Politician
John Stuart Mill20 May 18067 May 1873

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Qavam Saltaneh2 January 1873Iran
Tehran
23 July 1955
William Green3 March 18731952Union organizer
John W. Davis13 April 1873United States
West Virginia
Clarksburg
24 March 1955Politician
Leon Czolgosz5 May 187329 October 1901Journalist
"Lone nut"
Killed for the assassination of William McKinley
George Gibbs6 July 187328 October 1931
Hugh Sinclair18 August 1873Southampton4 November 1939Spook
Cornelius Vanderbilt III5 September 1873New York1 March 1942
Fritz Thyssen9 November 1873Germany
Mülheim
8 February 1951Businessperson
George N. Peek19 November 1873United States
Illinois
Polo
17 December 1943Economist
Civil servant
Businessperson
Vernon Kell21 November 1873Great Yarmouth27 March 1942Spook
Soldier
Polyglot
Leo Amery22 November 1873India
Gorakhpur
16 September 1955Politician
Deep state actor
UK historian and deep state actor, chief lieutenant of Alfred Milner
Al Smith30 December 1873New York
United States
Manhattan
4 October 1944Politician4 term governor of New York
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