Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

* 1873 – The British steamer sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

The party's leader Antonin Svehla ( 1873 – 1933 ) was prime minister several times.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* 1954 – Colette, French writer ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – Ramaprasad Chanda, Indian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1942 )

* 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1873 – The Colfax Massacre takes place.

This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

* 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.

* 1814 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish authoer ( d. 1873 )

* 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

* 1873 – Ernst Reckeweg, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

* 1873 – William Tite, English architect ( b. 1798 )

* 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1873 )

* 1948 – Kan ' ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – William Charles Macready, English actor ( b. 1793 )

* 1962 – A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

Paris, 1860 – 1873

* Algernon William John Clotworthy Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene, 5th Viscount Ferrard ( 1873 – 1956 )

* Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu ( 14 October 1851 – Keithhall, Inverurie, Aberdeen, 21 September 1932 ), married at St. George, Hanover Square, London, 14 August 1873 Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore

* Margaret Brand ( 1873 – 1948 ) married Algernon Francis Holford Ferguson ( 1867 – 1943 ) on 21 April 1897 ; had five children: Victor John Ferguson ( b. 1898 ), Andrew Henry Ferguson ( b. 1899 ), George Algernon Holford Ferguson ( b. 1905 ), Margaret Susan Ferguson ( b. 1906 ), and Jane Charlotte Ferguson ( b. 1912 ).

British Columbia joined confederation in 1871, followed by Prince Edward Island in 1873.

The names were reused in 1873 by a Committee of the British Association ( of which Everett was reporter ) that proposed using the centimetre-gram-second system for electrical and dynamical systems.

In 1873 she gained membership of the British Medical Association and remained the only woman member for 19 years, due to the Association's vote against the admission of further women – " one of several instances where Garrett, uniquely, was able to enter a hitherto all male medical institution which subsequently moved formally to exclude any women who might seek to follow her.

* 1873 – Thomas Andrews, British shipbuilder on the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats British Navy at the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813. Powell 1873

* John Wesley Brown ( 1873 – 1944 ), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1922 – 1923

Whereas the British quickly replaced the Snider with a dropping-block Peabody style Martini action, the US Army felt the trapdoor action to be adequate and followed its muzzleloader conversions with the new-production Springfield Model 1873, which was the principal longarm of the Indian Wars and was still in service with some units in the Spanish-American War.

The construction of the Suez Canal was one of the reasons of the Panic of 1873, because the goods from the Far East were carried in sailing vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and were stored in British warehouses, but sailing vessels were not adaptable for use through the Suez Canal, because the prevailing winds of the Mediterranean Sea blow from west to east.

* February 10 – Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal Air Force ( b. 1873 )

* February 24 – Guy Standing, British actor ( b. 1873 )

* March 7 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter ( d. 1873 )

* May 20 – John Stuart Mill, British philosopher ( d. 1873 )

* April 11 – Gerald du Maurier, British actor ( b. 1873 )

In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British planters, although the experimental efforts to grow rubber on a commercial scale in India were initiated as early as 1873 at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.

During the Christmas holidays of 1873, Evans cataloged a coin collection being bequeathed to Harrow by John Gardner Wilkinson, the father of British Egyptology, who was too ill to work on it himself.

A survey approaching the scope and extent of the Domesday Book was not attempted until the Return of Owners of Land, 1873 which presented the first subsequent complete picture of the distribution of landed property in the British Isles and is thus sometimes referred to as the " Modern Domesday ".

The first pygmy hippo was brought to Europe in 1873 after being captured in Sierra Leone by a member of the British Colonial Service but died shortly after arrival.

In 1873 English brothers James Hamilton Cator and Arthur J. L. ( Bob ) Cator were sent by their father, British naval officer Captain John Bertie Cator, to Kansas in search of financial opportunity.

Whereas the British quickly replaced the Snider with a dropping-block Peabody style Martini action, the US Army felt the trapdoor action to be adequate and followed its muzzleloader conversions with the new-production Springfield Model 1873, which was the principal longarm of the Indian Wars and was still in service with some units in the Spanish-American War.

Richard Ellison's collection of 100 British watercolours was given by his widow in 1860 and 1873 ' to promote the foundation of the National Collection of Water Colour Paintings '.

The town of Fort Mill was established in 1873, taking its name from a colonial-era fort built by the British and a grist mill on nearby Steele Creek.

British companies resumed large-scale mining in 1873 ; the district is the namesake of the Rio Tinto Group.