The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua Guatemala.

* R 1. 39 Alessandro nell ' Indie ( 26. 12. 1773 Modena ) — fragment

This map from a 1773 atlas, based on the: commons: File: CEM-44-La-Chine-la-Tartarie-Chinoise-et-le-Thibet-1734-Amur-2572. jpg | earlier work by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d ' Anville | d ' Anville, who in his turn made use of the information collected by Jesuit missions in China | Jesuits in 1709, asserts the existence of Sakhalin — but only assigns to it the northern half of the island and its northeastern coast ( with Cape Patience, discovered by Maarten Gerritsz Vries | de Vries in 1643 ).

* Jackson Corners — Colonial Inn: Built About 1773 Stage Inn, Doctor's Office, Hotel, Store, Post Office Of Jackson Corners.

Ali Bey Al-Kabir () ( 1728 — 8 May 1773 ) was a Mamluk leader of Egypt from 1760 to 1772.

* Merkwürdigkeiten der Morduanen, Kasaken, Kalmücken, Kirgisen, Baschkiren etс., Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1773 — 1777, 3 voll.

* Puteshestviye po raznym provintsiyam Rossiyskogo gosudarstva ( Saint Petersburg, 1773 — 1788 ).

* Hans Bøchmann Melchior ( 1773 — 1831 ), Danish Naturalist.

* March 13 — William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and governor general ( born 1773 )

During 1773 James Cook sailed beyond the Antarctic Circle — noting with pride in his journal that he was " undoubtedly the first that ever crossed that line .".

In 1773 — 1774, the Orenburg Cossacks took part in Yemelyan Pugachev's insurrection.

Despite suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, the observatory gained royal favor from King Stanisław August Poniatowski — it was named royal observatory and Poczobutt became King's astronomer.

" The little London directory of 1677 lists six merchants living in ' Grubſreet ', and Costermongers also plied their trade — a Mr Horton, who died in September 1773, earned a fortune of £ 2, 000 by hiring wheelbarrows out.

Ignacio López Rayón ( July 31, 1773, Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, New Spain — February 2, 1832, Mexico City ) led the revolutionary government of his country after Miguel Hidalgo's death, during the first years of the Mexican War of Independence.

ru: Крестьянская война ( 1773 — 1775 )

The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

The application of the principles of mechanics to soils was documented as early as 1773 when Charles Coulomb ( a physicist, engineer, and army Captain ) developed improved methods to determine the earth pressures against military ramparts.

The country is named after Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1773 and 1777.

* 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.

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.

Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which Frederick the Great granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ( Cavalry Captain von Blücher can go to the devil ).

John Shaw ( 1773 – 17 September 1823 ) was a Captain in the early years of the United States Navy.

Town historians believe it is probable that Captain Stevens named the town after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, who participated with Stevens in the Boston Tea Party raid in 1773.

The association of the Royal Navy with New Zealand began with the arrival of Lieutenant ( later Captain ) James Cook in 1769, who completed two subsequent journeys to New Zealand in 1773 and 1777.

In 1770 Graves was lieutenant of, and in 1773 was appointed to with Captain Constantine Phipps for the voyage of discovery in the Arctic Seas.

The first European to explore the St Helens area was Captain Tobias Furneaux who sailed up the coast in 1773.

navigator Tobias Furneaux who sighted the eastern side of these Island after leaving Adventure Bay in 1773 on his way to New Zealand to rejoin Captain James Cook.

Though spruce has sometimes been used as a flavoring ingredient in beer, such as Alba Scots Pine Ale, and the Alaskan Brewing Company's Winter Ale, the only beer termed " spruce beer " is Wigram Brewing Company's Spruce Beer, which is based on Captain Cook's first beer brewed in New Zealand in 1773.

His son Mahonegon was killed there in June 1773 by Captain William White, a native of Frederick County, Virginia.

For this work, An Account of the Voyages undertaken ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone John Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook ( from 1702 to 1771 ) drawn up from the Journals ... ( 3 vols, 1773 ) Hawkesworth is said to have received from the publishers the sum of £ 6000.

" Sydney Parkinson, an artist on Captain James Cook ’ s first voyage to New Zealand in 1769, and the German scientist Johann Reinhold Forster, who sailed with Cook in 1773, described waka fitted with outriggers ( ama, amatiatia or korewa )".

In 1773, Captain Phipps made a voyage to the North Pole taking with him not only his Arnold pocket timekeeper and an Arnold box timekeeper in gimbals, but also Kendall's " K2 " timekeeper.

Two years later, again in England, he married Caroline, daughter of William George Daniel-Tyssen ( 1773 – 1838 ) of Foley House etc., High Sheriff of Kent, by his wife Amelia, only daughter and heiress of Captain John Amhurst R. N., of East Farleigh Court, Kent.

The name Cox's Bazar / Bazaar originated from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki ( today's Cox's Bazar ) outpost after Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal following the British East India Company Act in 1773.

Captain James Cook brewed a beer flavoured with local spruce tree needles while visiting New Zealand in 1773 in order to combat scurvy aboard ship.

In 1773, Captain Thomas Bullitt led the first exploring party into Jefferson County, surveying land on behalf of Virginians who had been awarded land grants for service in the French and Indian War.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* James Mill ( 1773 – 1836 )

* 1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish nobleman, soldier, and politician ( d. 1773 )

* 1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician ( b. 1722 )

* A Vision of Britain Through Time James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, discussion in entries for 22 and 23 September 1773.

* May 29 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician ( d. 1773 )

In 1773 James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time but although he discovered nearby islands, he did not catch sight of Antarctica itself.

* Charles Clinton ( 1690 – 1773 ), French and Indian War colonel, father of James and George Clinton

James Cook witnessing human sacrifice in Tahiti c. 1773

In 1771 and 1773 Philidor made brief stays in London to play at the Salopian coffee-house, Charing Cross and at the St James Chess Club.

* James Mill ( 1773 – 1836 ) late in the period-Father of John Stuart Mill.

Among the most prominent citizens of Knoxville during the Antebellum years was James White's son, Hugh Lawson White ( 1773 – 1840 ).

Samuel Johnson and his protege James Boswell visited The MacQuarrie on Ulva in 1773, the year after Banks ' visit.

* James Mill ( 1773 – 1836 ), a Scottish historian, economist and philosopher

James Mill ( 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836 ) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher.

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.

* Lieutenant General James O ' Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, 1755 – 1773

Raasay House, which was visited by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson in 1773, is now an outdoor centre.

In 1773 James Boswell and Samuel Johnson arrived on the island during their Hebridean tour.

The first survey for a canal was carried out by James Watt in 1773, but it was the Caledonian Canal Commission that paved the way for the actual construction.