1773
1773 was a Common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events Births January 27 - Prince Augustus of Great Britain , Duke of Sussex (d. 1843 ) February 9 - William Henry Harrison , American military leader and 9th President of the United States (d. 1841 ) March 14 - John Holmes , American politician (d. 1843 ) March 16 - Juan Ramón Balcarce , Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836 ) March 26 - Nathaniel Bowditch , American mathematician (d. 1836 ) April 9 - Étienne Aignan , French writer, librettist, and playwright (d. 1824 ) May 3 - Giuseppe Acerbi , Italian explorer (d. 1846 ) May 15 - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich , Austrian statesman (d. 1859 ) May 19 - Arthur Aikin , English chemist and mineralogist (d. 1854 ) May 31 - Ludwig Tieck , German writer (d. 1853 ) June 13 - Thomas Young , English scientist (d. 1829 ) July 23 - Thomas Brisbane , Scottish astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860 ) August 22 - Aimé Bonpland , French explorer and botanist (d. 1858 ) October 6 - Louis Philippe , King of the French (d. 1850 ) December 21 - Robert Brown , Scottish botanist (d. 1858 ) December 27 - Sir George Cayley , English aviation pioneer William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst , British ambassador to China and Governor-General of India (d. 1854 ) Anne Hill Carter , wife of Light Horse Harry Lee and mother of Robert E. Lee (d. 1829 ) Henry Hunt , British politician (d. 1835 ) Deaths January 21 - Alexis Piron , French writer (b. 1689 ) February 20 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701 ) March 1 - Luigi Vanvitelli , Italian architect (b. 1700 ) March 24 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield , English statesman and man of letters (b. 1694 ) May 8 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir , Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728 ) May 15 - Alban Butler , English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710 ) July 5 - Francisco José Freire , Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719 ) July 12 - Johann Joachim Quantz , German flutist and composer (b. 1697 ) July 23 - George Edwards , English naturalist (b. 1693 ) August 3 - Stanisław Konarski , Polish writer (b. 1700 ) August 27 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz , Prussian general (b. 1721 ) September 23 - Johan Ernst Gunnerus , Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718 ) August 20 - Enrique Florez , Spanish historian (b. 1701 ) November 16 - John Hawkesworth , English writer November 19 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster , Irish politician (b. 1722 ) Ahmad Shah , Afghani founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724 )