This is in honor of John Ledyard, class of 1773, who scooped a canoe out of a handy tree and first set the course way back in his own student days.

* John Young ( merchant ) ( 1773 – 1837 ), Scottish merchant in Nova Scotia

Though the British rewarded John Harrison for his marine chronometer in 1773, chronometers remained very expensive and the lunar distance method continued to be used for decades.

After her father John Wayles died in 1773, Martha and her husband Jefferson inherited his 135 slaves, and the debts of his estate.

* October 5 – John Glas, Scottish minister ( d. 1773 )

* July 7 – John Holmes, American politician ( b. 1773 )

* John Keate – born in Wells 1773, went on to become headmaster at Eton where he restored discipline with the birch, and once flogged 80 boys in one day.

John Adams equated it with quamdiu se bene gesserint in a letter to the Boston Gazette published on 11 January 1773, a phrase that first appeared in section 3 of the Act of Settlement 1701 in England.

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

British surveyor John Gerard de Brahm, who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773, called the area " River Glades ".

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

An Act of Parliament was obtained on 7 April 1773, authorising improvements from Coltishall to Aylsham, which John Adey estimated would cost £ 6, 000.

* John Conard ( 1773 – 1857 ) served in the U. S. House of Representatives and settled near Port Deposit for 1834-1851 after retiring from politics.

Incorporated in 1773 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for his cousin, William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.

The town was granted on March 8, 1773 by Governor John Wentworth to a group of wealthy Portsmouth investors, including his father, Mark Hunking Wentworth, Nathaniel Haven and others.

The town of Loudon was originally incorporated by Governor John Wentworth on January 23, 1773.

First settled in 1763, Northwood was incorporated on February 6, 1773 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, when a large tract of land called " North Woods " was separated from Nottingham.

Strafford County had been organized in 1773 during the administration of Colonial Governor John Wentworth, and named in honor of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.

First settled in 1773 by Seth Walker, Langdon was incorporated on January 11, 1787, when it was named after Governor John Langdon.

The village, John Day's Bridge, that had been settled in 1710, adopted the name of Chatham in 1773 when New Jersey was an English province to honor William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.

In 1773, the settler John Meek was awarded a land grant from Virginia above the river bottom and between the Thorn Run and Montour Run valleys, and " Moon Township " was born.

Sold to John Witherspoon and others, the southern half of town was purchased in 1773 by two agents for the Scotch American Company of Farmers from Renfrew and Lanark, Scotland, whose members began settlement in 1774.

Further alterations took place in 1773 under the direction of architect John Platt.

* Lion Bridge, Alnwick ( 1773 )

Pulteney Bridge was completed in 1773 and is designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.

Other bridges from that time include Kew Bridge ( 1759 ), Battersea Bridge ( 1773 ), and Richmond Bridge ( 1777 ).

On the corner of the Main Street and Liffey Bridge, Broe ’ s house and shop ( 1773 ) is now the Bank of Ireland.

Joseph Mayall arrived in 1773 about one mile north of the present Laurens village.

The first written record about the village was made in a warrant of 1294's copy of 1572 under the name Thelegd and then its name emerged in 1773 as Mező-Telegd.

Married to Mary Collinson ( daughter of botanist Peter Collinson ), he was Lord of the Manor of Beckenham from 1773 and devoted much of his energies to transforming the village into a significant suburban town, with opulent houses situated along wide tree-lined avenues.

The story is that the duke and duchess of Orleans, travelling under the incognito of Comte and Comtesse de Joinville, were at this village on 16 April 1773, when the duchess gave birth to a daughter ; and that the duke, desiring a son in order to prevent the rich Penthièvre inheritance from reverting to his wife's relations in the event of her death, bribed the Chiappinis to substitute their newly-born male child for his own.

In 1773 it was annexed by Prussia and another census was organised by the owner of the village, Stanisław Dąbski.

He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter ( 1773 – 1863 ), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer ( 1765 – 1838 ), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family.

In 1773 the Thames Navigation Commission built Shiplake Lock on the Thames about downriver from the village.

The village was founded in 1773 as the seat of the newly created Westmoreland County, and was known at the time as " Hanna's Town ".

John Cator was lord of the manor from 1773 and developed Beckenham from a village into a town.

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

Engraved by a Boston silversmith, the seal was ready by Commencement of 1773.

** Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire ** by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill ( 1773 )

** Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ( 1773 )

1773 Map by J. Hawkesworth and J. Byron showing Hawkins ' discovery

Hymenoptera was coined by Carl Linnæus in 1773 from the Greek hymenos meaning membrane added to pteron, which means ' wings '.

The British Parliament, disturbed by the idea that a great business concern, interested primarily in profit, was controlling the destinies of millions of people, passed acts in 1773 and 1784 that gave itself the power to control company policies and to appoint the highest company official in India, the Governor-General.

* 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.

* 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

The Duchess was dead at the time of the island's sighting by Cook, but Cook had set out from England in 1772 and could not have known of her May 1773 death.

In 1773, Lessing published an epigram he had found in a manuscript during his work as a librarian ; it claimed to be a letter sent by Archimedes to Eratosthenes.

Oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774, but Priestley is often given priority because his work was published first.

* 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.

Pasteurization scalding and straining of cream to increase the keeping qualities of butter was practiced in England before 1773 and was introduced to Boston in the USA by 1773, although it was not widely practiced in the United States for the next 20 years.

Clement XIV ultimately yielded " in the name of peace of the Church and to avoid a secession in Europe " and suppressed the Society of Jesus by the brief Dominus ac Redemptor of the 21 July 1773.

Tadeusz Rejtan tries to prevent the legalisation of the Partitions of Poland | first partition of Poland by preventing the members of the Sejm from entering the chamber, 1773.

Some of his quartets from 1773 have fugal finales, probably influenced by Haydn, who had included three such finales in his recently published Opus 20 set.

He " began to look at the planets and the stars " in May, 1773 and on 1 March 1774 began an astronomical journal by noting his observations of Saturn's rings and the Great Orion Nebula ( M 42 ).

Tomb effigy of Amalia Mniszech in St. Mary Magdalene Church in Dukla by Jan Obrocki, 1773: only details of her beribboned costume are rococo

Banks as painted by Benjamin West in 1773.

Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins ( an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy ) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors ( 1612 ).

Her first official appearance in Paris on 8 June 1773 at the Tuileries was considered by many royal watchers a resounding success, with a reported 50, 000 people crying out to see her.