Another distinctly American lyric voice of the colonial period was Phillis Wheatley, a slave whose book " Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral ," was published in 1773.

In 1773, 39 of Phillis Wheatley's poems were published in London as a book entitled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

# Poems, London, 1773

" Amazing Grace " was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year's Day of 1773.

His small instrumental output includes two piano concerti, a concerto for organ written in 1773, a concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra ( 1774 ), and a set of twenty-six variations on La follia di Spagna ( 1815 ).

Ahmad Shah retired to his home in the mountains east of Kandahar, where he died on April 14, 1773.

The trustees officially accepted the seal on August 25, 1773, describing it as:

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.

Goya married Bayeu's sister Josefa ( he nicknamed her " Pepa ") on 25 July 1773.

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.

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

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

He was initiated into Freemasonry in Union Lodge, Exeter on November 2, 1773.

* 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 Pope went on to engage in the Suppression of the Jesuits, the decree to this effect being written in November 1772, and signed in July 1773.

* 1773 " Experiments on different kinds of Marle found in Staffordshire " Phil Trans.

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 ).

* November 9 – François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, French writer on ethics and political science ( b. 1773 )

Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The so-called Partition Sejm, with Russian military forces threatening the opposition, on September 18, 1773, signed the treaty of cession, renouncing all claims of the Commonwealth to the occupied territories.

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.

Those who suffered under his conscientious economies cunningly convinced Pope Clement XIV ( 1769 – 74 ) to make him Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Onofrio on 26 April 1773 – a promotion which rendered him, for a time, innocuous.

* 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.

Historical significance of the Angara and the Ilim River | Ilim as water routes is attested by a chain of villages along them ( many of which, as well as the town of Ilimsk, were flooded by modern dams ) on this map from 1773.

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 ).

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 result, known as Johnson's and Steevens's edition, was The Works of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators ( 10 vols., 1773 ), Johnson's contributions to which were very slight.

But it is probable the Traders at the Illinois as well British, as Spanish Subjects have been guilty of such iniquitous Practices to keep the trade to themselves ...", Gage to Haldimand, New York June 3d 1773, Gage, Thomas in: Library of Congress, British Museum, Additional MS. 21665, f. 141-142.

Category: Religious buildings completed in 1773

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.

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.

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 ).