* 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 )

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

The British Parliament, disturbed by the idea that a great business concern, interested primarily in profit, was controlling the destinies of millions of people, passed acts in 1773 and 1784 that gave itself the power to control company policies and to appoint the highest company official in India, the Governor-General.

The issue of Parliament's authority in the colonies became a crisis after Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774 to punish the Province of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

The next attempt was to extend navigation on the River Bure from Coltishall to Aylsham, which was authorised by an Act of Parliament on 7 April 1773.

An Act of Parliament was obtained on 7 April 1773, authorising improvements from Coltishall to Aylsham, which John Adey estimated would cost £ 6, 000.

Immediately thereafter Parliament began debating the Regulating Act of 1773, which significantly reformed the East India Company's practices.

A special Act of Parliament in 1773 allowed the creation of a town hall next to the Market Place.

St Martin's Church owned land on the southern end of Broad Street, at what is now Five Ways, and began to develop the land in 1773 after the passing of an Act of Parliament.

* 1773 – The Parliament passes the Tea Act ( May 10 )

Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 ; the British Parliament hoped these punitive measures would, by making an example of Massachusetts, reverse the trend of colonial resistance to parliamentary authority that had begun with the 1765 Stamp Act.

Felton Hervey ( 1712 – 1773 ), was also Member of Parliament for the family borough of Bury St Edmunds.

Following the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, Parliament passed a series of bills designed to punish Massachusetts.

Lord Clive testified and defended himself thus before the House of Commons of Parliament on 10 May 1773, during the Parliamentary inquiry into his conduct in India:

Etheldred Benett ( 22 July 1776 – 11 January 1845 ) was an early English geologist, the eldest daughter of Thomas Benett ( 1729 – 1797 ) of Wiltshire and Catherine née Darell ( d. 1790 ); her brother, John ( 1773 – 1852 ), was a member of Parliament for Wiltshire and later South Wiltshire from 1819 to 1852.

In May, 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act cutting the duty on tea and enabling the East India company to sell tea in the colonies cheaper than the smugglers could.

Category: Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1773

Parliament extended these concessions to the other colonies in 1773 by amending the Currency Act of 1764 ( 13 Geo.

Category: Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1773

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

In 1773, Sheffield's silversmiths joined with those of Birmingham to petition Parliament for the establishment of Assay Offices in their respective cities.

William Alexander Madocks ( 17 June 1773 – September 1828 ) was a landowner and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the town of Boston in Lincolnshire from 1802 to 1820, and then for Chippenham in Wiltshire from 1820 to 1826.

* John Prinsep, vicar's son, patriarch of the Prinsep family in India, indigo planter, entrepreneur, arrived in India a few weeks after Warren Hastings became Governor General in 1773, amassed a large fortune in indigo production, retired to frescoed mansion on London's Leadenhall Street later occupied by the India Office, London alderman, Member of Parliament

Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin GCH KCB FRS FRGS ( 1773 – 1 May 1841 ), was a British army officer of the Napoleonic era and later Member of Parliament.

* Sir Charles Turner, 2nd Baronet ( 1773 – 1810 ), British Member of Parliament for Hull, 1796 – 1802

His son and heir, the Honourable Robert Fox-Lane, Member of Parliament for York, predeceased him in 1768 and the barony consequently became extinct on Lord Bingley's death in 1773.