* 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 )

* 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.

* 1773 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and soldier, 6th Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1860 )

** Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer ( b. 1773 )

* May 10 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist ( b. 1773 )

Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins ( an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy ) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors ( 1612 ).

Thomas Young ( 13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829 ) was an English polymath.

In March 1773, along with Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee, Henry led the Virginia House of Burgesses to adopt resolutions providing for a standing committee of correspondence.

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.

Sarah " Sally " Hemings ( Charles City County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835 ) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson through his wife's inheritance.

The Sheffield Resolves, or Sheffield Declaration, was an early Colonial American petition against British rule and manifesto for individual rights, drawn up as a series of resolves approved by the Town of Sheffield on January 12, 1773 and printed in The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas ’ s Boston Journal on February 18, 1773.

Strafford County had been organized in 1773 during the administration of Colonial Governor John Wentworth, and named in honor of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.

From 1773 until around 1829, Thomas Young discovered the disability of astigmatism and it was George Biddell Airy who designed glasses to correct that problem that included spherocylindrical lens.

* Sophia ( 1716 – 1773 ), who married General John Thomas.

In addition, Hewitt brought him under the notice of John Norris of Witton Park, who sent him to Cambridge to be examined by James Lambert, the two tutors of Trinity College, Cambridge Thomas Postlethwaite and Collier, and the mathematician George Atwood, then assistant tutor ; the result was so favourable that Norris decided in 1773 to provide for his education.

With his military experience and relative youth ( Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was then 62 years old and unpopular, and the equally unpopular lieutenant governor ( Andrew Oliver ), a hated Tory, was 67 in 1773 and died in March 1774 ), Gage, a popular figure on both sides of the Atlantic, was deemed the best man to handle the brewing crisis and enforce the Parliamentary acts.

* January 19 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer ( b. 1773 )

* Thomas Paine, b. Dec. 9, 1773 ; name changed by law in 1801 to Robert Treat Paine, Jr .; d. Nov. 13, 1811. graduate of Harvard College, 1792.

In 1773, on the death of his uncle Thomas Anson ( brother of Lord Anson ), he succeeded to the substantial estates accumulated by his uncle Lord Anson, including the Anson family seat of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire.

Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE ( 23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860 ) was Governor of New South Wales ( 1821 – 25 ), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service.

* J. D. Heydon, ' Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall ( 1773 – 1860 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, MUP, 1966, pp 151 – 155.

In the mid-1830s, Brownlow anonymously wrote several articles attacking nullification for the Washington Republican and Farmer's Journal, a Jonesborough-based paper published by retired state supreme court justice Thomas Emmerson ( 1773 – 1837 ).

* Thomas Young ( scientist ) ( 1773 – 1829 ), British polymath, scientist and Egyptologist

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.