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Events from the year 1773 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 17 January - Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.[1]
- March - General Turnpike Act 1773 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 an Act regulating the East India Company's activities in India and bringing them under government control.[4]
- 16 December - American colonists protest against the British at the Boston Tea Party.[4]
Undated
- John Harrison receives the Longitude prize for his invention of the first marine chronometer.[5]
- An informal Stock Exchange opens at Threadneedle Street in London.[2]
Publications
- The Jockey Club's first Racing 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
References
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