* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1773 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer ( b. 1700 )

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

* 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman ( d. 1854 )

* 1737 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter ( d. 1773 )

He was the father of Thérésa Cabarrus, later known as Madame Tallien ( 1773 – 1835 ), a French social figure during the French Revolution who later became the Princess of Chimay.

* James Mill ( 1773 – 1836 )

* Éléments de physiologie ( 1773 – 1774 )

* 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

* 1773 – George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician ( d. 1857 )

* 1701 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian ( d. 1773 )

* 1773 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States ( d. 1841 )

Mary Anne Evans was the third child of Robert Evans ( 1773 – 1849 ) and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson ) ( 1788 – 1836 ), the daughter of a local farmer.

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

* John Young ( merchant ) ( 1773 – 1837 ), Scottish merchant in Nova Scotia

* 1844 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general ( b. 1773 )

* 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.

* 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer ( d. 1773 )

* 1773 – Thomas Young, English scientist ( d. 1829 )

* 1689 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and dramatist ( d. 1773 )

The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

1773 — Captain James Cook explores the islands and names them the Hervey Islands.

The application of the principles of mechanics to soils was documented as early as 1773 when Charles Coulomb ( a physicist, engineer, and army Captain ) developed improved methods to determine the earth pressures against military ramparts.

The country is named after Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1773 and 1777.

Veterans of the war were promised land and in 1773 Captain Thomas Bullitt was sent on a surveying expedition of the area around the Falls of the Ohio by the governor of Virginia.

Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which Frederick the Great granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ( Cavalry Captain von Blücher can go to the devil ).

John Shaw ( 1773 – 17 September 1823 ) was a Captain in the early years of the United States Navy.

Town historians believe it is probable that Captain Stevens named the town after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, who participated with Stevens in the Boston Tea Party raid in 1773.

The association of the Royal Navy with New Zealand began with the arrival of Lieutenant ( later Captain ) James Cook in 1769, who completed two subsequent journeys to New Zealand in 1773 and 1777.

In 1770 Graves was lieutenant of, and in 1773 was appointed to with Captain Constantine Phipps for the voyage of discovery in the Arctic Seas.

The first European to explore the St Helens area was Captain Tobias Furneaux who sailed up the coast in 1773.

navigator Tobias Furneaux who sighted the eastern side of these Island after leaving Adventure Bay in 1773 on his way to New Zealand to rejoin Captain James Cook.

Though spruce has sometimes been used as a flavoring ingredient in beer, such as Alba Scots Pine Ale, and the Alaskan Brewing Company's Winter Ale, the only beer termed " spruce beer " is Wigram Brewing Company's Spruce Beer, which is based on Captain Cook's first beer brewed in New Zealand in 1773.

His son Mahonegon was killed there in June 1773 by Captain William White, a native of Frederick County, Virginia.

For this work, An Account of the Voyages undertaken ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone John Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook ( from 1702 to 1771 ) drawn up from the Journals ... ( 3 vols, 1773 ) Hawkesworth is said to have received from the publishers the sum of £ 6000.

" Sydney Parkinson, an artist on Captain James Cook ’ s first voyage to New Zealand in 1769, and the German scientist Johann Reinhold Forster, who sailed with Cook in 1773, described waka fitted with outriggers ( ama, amatiatia or korewa )".

In 1773, Captain Phipps made a voyage to the North Pole taking with him not only his Arnold pocket timekeeper and an Arnold box timekeeper in gimbals, but also Kendall's " K2 " timekeeper.

Two years later, again in England, he married Caroline, daughter of William George Daniel-Tyssen ( 1773 – 1838 ) of Foley House etc., High Sheriff of Kent, by his wife Amelia, only daughter and heiress of Captain John Amhurst R. N., of East Farleigh Court, Kent.

The name Cox's Bazar / Bazaar originated from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki ( today's Cox's Bazar ) outpost after Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal following the British East India Company Act in 1773.

Captain James Cook brewed a beer flavoured with local spruce tree needles while visiting New Zealand in 1773 in order to combat scurvy aboard ship.

In 1773, Captain Thomas Bullitt led the first exploring party into Jefferson County, surveying land on behalf of Virginians who had been awarded land grants for service in the French and Indian War.