Municipal efforts to buy out the SVWC had been a source of constant controversy from as early as 1873, when the first attempt to purchase it was turned down by San Francisco voters because the price was too high.

Despite the controversy, the status of silver was slowly diminished through a series of legislative changes from 1873 to 1900, when a gold standard was formally adopted.

The sovereignty over Andkhui, Shibarghan, Saripul and Maimana was in dispute between Bukhara and Kabul until settled by the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1873 in favour of the Afghan claim.

* About Town ( Court Theatre, 1873, it ran for over 150 nights );

* In 1873, the Nazarene Fellowship, led by Edward Turney of Nottingham, separated over the atonement.

The Afghan ruler was worried about the southward encroachment of Russia, which by 1873 had taken over the lands of the khan, or ruler, of Khiva.

In 1873, it became known that Allan had contributed a large sum of money to the Conservative government's re-election campaign of 1872 ; some sources quote a sum over $ 360, 000.

Artje took over the role of housekeeper and remained with the family until 1873 when she married.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

Under the threat of violence, on 25 November 1934 rector Otto Grosser ( 1873 – 1951 ) handed over the insigniae.

In 1873 he and Balfour tramped over Lapland, Finland, and Sweden.

The period from 1850 to 1873 saw, as a result of the Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over 60 million people.

A major proponent of representative government was Itagaki Taisuke ( 1837 – 1919 ), a powerful Tosa leader who had resigned from the Council of State over the Korean affair in 1873.

This larger choir, just over 300, sang at the October 1873 General Conference.

Although originally named Colrain in 1745, and officially incorporated under that name in 1761, the town spelled its name ( and appeared on maps ) as " Colraine " for over 112 years until in 1873 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts insisted that the town begin to spell its name as it was officially incorporated.

The Westfield Memorial Library was founded in 1873 as the " Every Saturday Book Club " and has evolved over the past century into the Westfield Memorial Library of today.

This led to the Modoc War of 1872 – 1873, which was a hugely expensive campaign for the US Cavalry, costing an estimated $ 500, 000 – the equivalent of over 8 million in year-2000 dollars.

was taken over by the Gutehoffnungshütte Actienverein für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb, Sterkrade ( GHH ), ( founded 1873 ).

Rubinstein concluded his American tour with this series, playing the seven recitals over a nine-day period in New York in May 1873.

The cottages were spread over three village greens next to Mossford Lodge at Barkingside, Ilford, Essex that had been opened in 1873.

" By the time the copyright expired in 1873, over 375, 000 copies had been sold in Britain and 158 editions had been published.

Production of these notes was taken over by Sveriges Riksbank in 1869, with the notes issued until 1873.

Matthew in turn was a former Catholic priest who had left the Church to be ordained as a bishop in the Old Catholic Church, which had separated from mainstream Catholicism in 1873 over the issue of papal infallibility.

In 1873, by petition of president Gabriel García Moreno, Ecuador was the first country in the world to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart, fulfilling God's petition to Saint Margaret Mary over two hundred years later.

When Prince Edward Island became a Canadian province in 1873, it sold off all of its remaining pre-Canadian stamps at discounted prices, flooding the market with over 1. 5 million cheap stamps.

Attention turned to the idea of building a railroad bridge over the river in 1873, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned a study of a bridge over the Detroit River.

File: Darvish bazaar. jpg | A Qajar-era Persian dervish, seen here from an 1873 depiction of Tehran's Grand Bazaar.

He created a gallery of portraits of important Russian writers, scientists, artists and public figures ( Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1873, Ivan Shishkin, 1873, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, 1876, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1879, Sergei Botkin, 1880 ) in which expressive simplicity of composition and clarity of depiction emphasize profound psychological elements of character.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

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

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

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

It was restored in 1873 by William Butterfield.

It was invented in 1873 by the chemist Sir William Crookes as the by-product of some chemical research.

The building of this line was promoted by Andrew Smith Hallidie with design work by William Eppelsheimer, and it was first tested in 1873.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* 1873 – William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish 1st Officer on the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).

* 1873 – William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor ( d. 1975 )

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* 1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, American educator and author ( d. 1873 )

Grace was married on 9 October 1873 to Agnes Nicholls Day ( 1853 – 1930 ), who was the daughter of his first cousin William Day.

* October 29 – Leon Czolgosz, Polish-American assassin of U. S. President William McKinley ( born 1873 )

* October 5 – William Todd ( 1803 – 1873 ), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee ( b. 1803 )

* July 10 – William Todd ( 1803 – 1873 ), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee

* March 3 – William Charles Macready, English actor ( d. 1873 )