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 )

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

* 1873: Colfax massacre ( Colfax, Louisiana )

Schuyler Colfax, Jr. (; March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885 ) was a United States Representative from Indiana ( 1855 – 1869 ), Speaker of the House of Representatives ( 1863 – 1869 ), and the 17th Vice President of the United States ( 1869 – 1873 ).

Wilson was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with President Ulysses S. Grant to replace the controversial Schuyler Colfax and served from 4 March 1873 until his death.

In April 1873, white militia from Winn Parish joined in the Colfax Massacre in neighboring Grant Parish, putting down what they called a riot by freedmen as an aftermath to the disputed gubernatorial election of 1872.

Nash later, as the sheriff of Grant Parish, crushed the Colfax Riot of 1873 and established the first chapter of the White League in 1874.

During the Reconstruction era, Colfax was the scene of the Colfax massacre on Easter, April 13, 1873.

Colfax was officially incorporated on November 29, 1873.

In 1873, Grant Parish was the site of the Colfax massacre, caused by the political tension and violence arising from the disputed 1872 gubernatorial election and efforts by local whites to keep white supremacy.

* Colfax massacre, an 1873 incident in Colfax, Louisiana

In United States v. Cruikshank the court overturned the convictions of three men accused of massacring at least 105 blacks and three whites in the Colfax massacre outside the Grant Parish, Louisiana, courthouse on Easter 1873.

On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, an armed white militia attacked Republican freedmen, who had gathered at the Colfax, Louisiana, courthouse to protect it from the pending Democratic takeover.

Gathering the dead after the Colfax massacre in Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1873

The Colfax massacre or Colfax Riot ( as the events are termed on the official state historic marker ) occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the seat of Grant Parish.

Cazabat and Nash took their oaths of office in the Colfax courthouse on January 2, 1873.

In 1950, Louisiana erected a state highway marker noting the event of 1873 as " the Colfax Riot ", as it was traditionally called in the white community.

Its first chapter in Grant Parish, Louisiana was made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873.

Although some sources attribute the White League with responsibility for the Colfax Riot of 1873, the organization was not established under this name until March 1874.

It had been plagued by violence, including the massacres at Colfax in 1873 and Coushatta in 1874.

* Schuyler Colfax — Ulysses S. Grant's Vice President ( 1869 – 1873 ) from South Bend