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

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 )

* 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.

* 1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet ( d. 1773 )

Count Roman Ignacy Franciszek Potocki, generally known as Ignacy Potocki, (; 1750 – 1809 ), brother of Stanisław Kostka Potocki, was a Polish nobleman, owner of Klementowice and Olesin ( near Kurów ), Marshal of the Permanent Council ( Rada Nieustająca ) in 1778-1782, Grand Clerk of Lithuania from 1773, Court Marshal of Lithuania from 1783, Grand Marshal of Lithuania from 16 April 1791 to 1794, and a politician and writer.

The Commission of National Education (, abbreviated KEN, ) was the central educational authority in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created by the Sejm and king Stanisław August Poniatowski on October 14, 1773.

Despite suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, the observatory gained royal favor from King Stanisław August Poniatowski — it was named royal observatory and Poczobutt became King's astronomer.

In 1773 it was annexed by Prussia and another census was organised by the owner of the village, Stanisław Dąbski.

Stanisław Konarski ( actual name: Hieronim Konarski ; born September 30, 1700 in Żarczyce Duże, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship – died August 3, 1773 in Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

* Stanisław Konarski ( d. 1773 ), famous Polish pedagogue, reformer of education ;

In 1773 King Stanisław August Poniatowski established the Commission of National Education, the world's first ministry of education.

* September 30 – Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer ( d. 1773 )

* 1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ( Polish for Commission of National Education ), is formed in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth after the First Partition as a protectorate of Russian Empire 1773 – 1789

Frederick II of Prussia was elated with his success ; Prussia took most of the Polish Royal Prussia that stood between its possessions in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, taking Ermland ( Warmia ), Royal Prussia without the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) ( which in 1773 became a new province called West Prussia ), northern areas of Greater Poland along the Noteć River ( the Netze District ), and parts of Kuyavia, ( also the Prussian city of Thorn ).

In 1773, in the aftermath of the War of the Bar Confederation, a special session of the Sejm ( Polish parliament ) was convened in Warsaw, capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by its three neighbours ( Russian Empire, Prussia and Austria ) in order to legalize their First Partition of Poland.

West Prussia (; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 – 1824 and 1878 – 1919 / 20 which was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia.

He was the son of Prince Kazimierz Poniatowski, born Count Kazimierz Poniatowski, ( September 15, 1721 – 1800 ), a Polish Szlachcic, podkomorzy wielki koronny ( 1742 – 1773 ), generał wojsk koronnych, Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on August 3, 1744 in Warsaw.

Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, lt. Edukacinė komisija ) founded in 1773 in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Prince Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, born Michał Jerzy Poniatowski ( October 12, 1736 – August 12, 1794 ) was a Polish nobleman, abbot of Tyniec and Czerwińsk, Bishop of Płock and Coadjutor Bishop of Kraków from 1773, and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1784.

Prince Kazimierz Poniatowski, born Count Kazimierz Poniatowski ( September 15, 1721 – April 13, 1800 ) was a Polish Szlachcic, podkomorzy wielki koronny ( 1742 – 1773 ), generał wojsk koronnych.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Commission of National Education ( Polish: Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ) formed in 1773 counts as the first Ministry of Education in the history of humankind.

* Kazimierz Poniatowski, a Polish Szlachcic, podkomorzy wielki koronny ( 1742 – 1773 ), generał wojsk koronnych.

Jan Wielopolski ( c. 1700 – 1773 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ).

Betskoy's work in Russia was soon followed by the Polish establishment in 1773 of a Commission of National Education ( Polish: Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, Lithuanian: Nacionaline Edukacine Komisija ).

In 1773 the Society of Jesus in Poland was abolished by Pope Clement XIV, who thus freed Polish youth from the demoralizing influences of Jesuitism.