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.

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

A collection of his writings was published at Geneva in 1770 ( Oeuvres de feu M. Abauzit ), and another at London in 1773 ( Oeuvres diverses de M. Abauzit ).

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.

Of the 348 hymns in the original published edition of 1779 some commentaries state that Cowper wrote just 66 between 1772 and 1773, and Newton the remainder, while other sources attribute 67 to Cowper.

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.

The printing of Domesday, in " record type ", was begun by the government in 1773, and the book was published, in two volumes, in 1783 ; in 1811, a volume of indexes was added, and in 1816 a supplementary volume, separately indexed, containing

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.

Highly ambitious, but without patronage or qualifications, he set about imposing himself into the intellectual scene with essays on philosophy (" A philosophical Essay on Man ", published 1773 ) and political theory (" Chains of Slavery ", published 1774 ).

Title page of Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru, an anthology of medieval Welsh poetry edited by Rhys Jones and published in 1773.

In 1773, Necker won the prize of the Académie Française for a defense of state corporatism framed as a eulogy of Louis XIV's minister, Colbert ; in 1775, he published his Essai sur la législation et le commerce des grains, in which he attacked the free-trade policy of Turgot.

In 1773 Barrington published an edition of Orosius, with King Alfred's Saxon version, and an English translation with original notes.

In 1773 he published An Inquiry into the real and imaginary Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in England, vindicating the capacity of the English for the fine arts and tracing their slow progress to the Reformation, to political and civil dissensions, and lastly to the general direction of the public mind to mechanics, manufactures and commerce.

Petrifactions ”), released from 1768 to 1773, and also published in French and Dutch editions.

Besides these, he published more than a hundred smaller works, many of which have been collected in the three following publications: Opuscula oratoria ( 1762 ); Opuscula philologica et critica ( 1764 ); Opuscula theologica ( 1773 ).

His poetic ambitions resulted in the poem called Le Bonheur ( published posthumously, with an account of Helvétius's life and works, by Jean François de Saint-Lambert, 1773 ), in which he develops the idea that true happiness is only to be found in making the interest of one person that of all.

During his residence in Rome Niebuhr discovered and published fragments of Cicero and Livy, aided Cardinal Mai in his edition of Cicero's De re publica, and shared in framing the plan of the great work, Beschreibung Roms ( The Description of the City of Rome ), on the topography of ancient Rome by Christian Charles Josias Bunsen and Ernst Zacharias Platner ( 1773 – 1855 ), to which he contributed several chapters.

In July 1772 Burney again visited the continent, to do further research, and, after his return to London, published his tour under the title of The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces ( 1773 ).

Burney's first tour was translated into German by Ebeling, and printed at Hamburg in 1772 ; and his second tour, translated into German by Bode, was published at Hamburg in 1773.

In 1773 Mackenzie published a second novel, The Man of the World, the hero of which was as consistently bad as the " Man of Feeling " had been " constantly obedient to his moral sense ," as Sir Walter Scott says.

Letters of his calling for abridgement of colonial rights were published in 1773, further intensifying dislike of him in the colony.

Many of his extant poems were printed from 1771 onwards in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, and a collected works was first published early in 1773.

* 1773 – Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York published by local Sons of Liberty ( December 15 )

In 1773 he resigned from the Marblehead committee over the virulently negative response the townspeople had to the hospital for treating smallpox he set up on Cat Island.

In 1773 King Frederick II of Prussia, having conquered and annexed Silesia in 1742, had St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin built for the Catholic Upper Silesian immigrants, now the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin.

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.

However a Jesuits ' college, founded in the city in 1571 during the Counter-Reformation, had the right to award degrees from 1611 until 1773, when it was combined with the Academy.

The Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale ( Yale 1773 ) was the prototype of the Yale ideal in the early 19th century: a manly yet aristocratic scholar, equally well-versed in knowledge and sports, and a patriot who regretted he had but one life to lose for his country.

Benjamin Franklin had put forth the idea of such a meeting the year before but was unable to convince the colonies of its necessity until the British placed a blockade at the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

It was not until 1773 that the Virgin Islands actually had its own legislature.

He had received the support of the ministers of the Catholic crowns and the anti-Jesuit party upon a tacit understanding that he would continue the action of Clement XIV, by whose brief Dominus ac Redemptor ( 1773 ), the Society of Jesus had been pronounced dissolved.

Soon after the First Partition, Krasicki officiated at the 1773 opening of Berlin's St. Hedwig's Cathedral, which Frederick had built for Catholic immigrants to Brandenburg and Berlin.

In 1773 Lee, who had Whig views, moved to America and bought an estate in Virginia.

* Lake Dunmore in Salisbury, Vermont, was named after him in 1773, since he had claimed ownership of the area while he was Governor of New York.

# Maria Teresa of Savoy ( 31 January 1756 – 2 June 1805 ) married Charles, Count of Artois in 1773, had issue.

The great cemetery of Riga, largest burial ground of Baltic Germans in Latvia standing since 1773, also had the vast majority of its graves destroyed by the Soviets.

Maskelyne proposed measuring the gravitational force deflection induced by the pull of a nearby mountain upon a plumb-bob in 1772 and sent Mason ( who had returned to England ) on a site survey through central England and Scotland to find a suitable location during the summer of 1773.

This includes the association of Votan with Palenque by Ramon de Ordoñez y Aguilar, a priest who had lived near the site and wrote one of the earliest descriptions of the ruins in 1773.

The name is first recorded as Spratts Bottom in 1773 and by 1791 it had changed to the present form.

In 1773, roughly the same area was awarded as the " Alexandria Addition " to a new group of speculators, who had previously been granted the adjacent township of Alexandria.

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.

By 1773, the community had 132 inhabitants.

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 1769, Cleary Campbell, the first white settler in the area, built a log cabin near the present site of Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, and by 1773 William Reed, another settler, had built a cabin surrounded by a stockade and called it Reed's Fort.

In 1773, Barbauld brought out her first book of poems, after her friends had praised them and convinced her to publish.