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 – 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

Entering the Indian education department in 1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in 1873, tutor to the Raja of Rutlam in 1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in 1877.

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.

After 1873, many Indian laborers where imported from India.

As the result of a U. S. government investigation in 1873, a number of Indian reservations were assigned by executive proclamation in 1875.

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.

From 1846 to 1873, a Kaw Indian Reservation was centered around Council Grove, Kansas on 20 square miles of land.

After its short life as a trading post, Fort Peck served as an Indian agency from 1873 until 1878.

In October 1873, he moved a small group of his people from the Bitterroot Valley, which was designated a “ conditional reservation ” in the 1855 Hellgate Treaty, to the Jocko Agency ( later Flathead Indian Agency ) located a few miles north of the current town of Arlee.

It is interesting to note that Fort Cameron was established two miles from Beaver in 1873 by the US troops because of the Mountain Meadow Massacre and Indian raid of the surrounding settlements.

Jacob Bartles, son-in-law of Delaware chief Charles Journeycake, moved from Wyandotte County, Kansas to Indian Territory in 1873.

On June 4, 1873, they packed up their meager possessions in wagons and headed south to Indian Territory to a new reservation.

Christopher Dresser, a student and later Professor at the school worked with Owen Jones on The Grammar of Ornament, as well as on the 1863 decoration of The Oriental Courts ( Chinese, Japanese, and Indian ) at the South Kensington Museum, advanced the search for a new style with his two publications The Art of Decorative Design 1862, and Principles of Design 1873.

Edward Richard Sprigg Canby ( November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873 ) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War, Reconstruction era, and the Indian Wars.

L to R, US Indian agent, Winema ( Tobey ) and her husband Frank Riddle ( interpreter ), with other Modoc women in front, 1873

A decade later in 1873, visiting the Indian Commissioner at Cheyenne, Wyoming, Ouray heard from a woman who lived with the Sioux that his son lived, but had been sold to the Southern Arapaho.

L to R, standing: US Indian agent, Toby Riddle | Winema ( Tobey ) and her husband Frank Riddle ( interpreter ), with four Modoc women in front, 1873

* Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, for the Year 1873.

Hume made several expeditions solely to study ornithology and in March 1873 he made one to the Andaman, Nicobar and other islands in the Bay of Bengal along with geologists Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka and Dr. Dougall of the Geological Survey of India and James Wood-Mason of the Indian Museum in Calcutta.

Returning to his Algerian survey, he brought it to a conclusion in 1873, when he was elected to the Bureau des Longitudes and, in the following year, was sponsored by the Académie des sciences to observe the transit of Venus from St. Paul Island in the Indian Ocean.

Geddes also influenced several British urban planners ( notably Raymond Unwin ), the Indian social scientist Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Catalan architect Cebrià de Montoliu ( 1873 – 1923 ) as well as many other 20th century thinkers.

He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely throughout Africa — including his Ashanti campaign ( 1873 – 1874 ) and the Nile Expedition against Mahdist Sudan in 1884 – 85.

L to R, standing: US Indian agent, Winema ( Toby ) and her husband Frank Riddle ; other Modoc women in front, 1873