Important Historical Events of the year 1873, Year 1873 in History

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List of 1873 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1873

What happened in the year 1873?

Date	Event
January 17, 1873	A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
February 11, 1873	King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates, forming the First Spanish Republic.
February 18, 1873	Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
March 3, 1873	Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
March 10, 1873	The first Azerbaijani play, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, prepared by Akhundov, is performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.[16]
March 22, 1873	The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
April 1, 1873	The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
April 13, 1873	The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
May 9, 1873	Der Krach: The Vienna stock exchange crash heralds the Long Depression.
May 20, 1873	Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
May 23, 1873	The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
May 24, 1873	Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
June 5, 1873	Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
June 18, 1873	Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
July 1, 1873	Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
July 21, 1873	At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
August 2, 1873	The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
August 4, 1873	American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
August 23, 1873	The Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
August 30, 1873	Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
September 1, 1873	Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
September 15, 1873	Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
September 18, 1873	The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
October 3, 1873	Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
October 9, 1873	A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
November 20, 1873	Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier captured Hanoi from the Vietnamese.
November 22, 1873	The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.