* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

File: Charlotte Brontë. jpg | A postum idealized portrait by Duyckinick, 1873, based on a drawing by George Richmond

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 –).

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

George Edward Moore OM, FBA ( 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958 ) was an English philosopher.

* 1873 – George Orton, Canadian athlete ( d. 1958 )

* 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

Gould proposed that much of the research was based more upon the racial and social prejudices of the researchers than upon their scientific objectivity ; that on occasion, researchers such as Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ), Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), and Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), committed the methodological fallacy of including their personal ( a priori ) expectations to the conclusions, as part of their analytical reasoning.

Grant's prosecution of civil rights cases under both his Attorney Generals Akerman and George H. Williams, lasted from October 1871 to the Spring of 1873 during his second term in office.

** Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright ( d. 1873 )

* October 20 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian ( d. 1873 )

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

Beginning a novel tradition, one of that couple's daughters, Princess Olga Aleksandrovna Yurievskaya ( 1873 – 1925 ), in 1895 married the child of an 1868 morganatic marriage in the House of Nassau, George, Count von Merenberg ( 1871 – 1965 ).

His parents, George Philip Gein ( 1873 – 1940 ) and Augusta Wilhelmine ( Lehrke ) Gein ( 1878 – 1945 ), both natives of Wisconsin, had two sons: Henry George Gein ( 1901 – 1944 ), and his younger brother, Edward Theodore Gein.

George Vital " Papa Jack " Laine ( September 21, 1873 – June 1, 1966 ) was a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish-American War to World War I.

* George Edwin Lyle 1873 – 1889 – 1895 – 1900 ( formerly organist of Mold Parish Church )

A group of English and Scottish colonists led by a Scotsman named George Grant founded Victoria in 1873 on land he had purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway.

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown.

Bandon was founded by the Irish peer George Bennett in 1873.

* George Forrest ( 1873 – 1932 ), a plant collector who gained fame with his expeditions to the far east who spent a significant part of his early years in Loanhead.

* George P. Smith ( born 1873 ), politician and Minister of the Crown from Alberta, Canada

File: George Inness-In the Roman Campagna. jpg | In the Roman Campagna, oil on canvas painting by George Inness, 1873, Saint Louis Art Museum

Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).

In late 1873, Darwin tackled a new edition of the Descent of Man.

Emma got Darwin to get the approval of the education inspectorate in London, and just before Christmas 1873 the Darwins and their neighbours the Lubbocks got the agreement of the school committee, offering to pay for any repairs needed " to afford every possible opportunity to the working class for self improvement & amusement ".

In a letter to a correspondent at the University of Utrecht in 1873, Darwin expressed agnosticism:

In 1873, an iron constructed church was brought from England and erected at Darwin.

A work on the course of morphological differentiation in the Sphacelariaceae ( 1873 ), a family of marine algae, is of great interest, inasmuch as it treats of evolutionary questions ; the authors point of view is that of Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli ( 1817-1891 ) rather than Darwin.

Müller was an early investigator of coevolution .< sup > p27 </ sup > He was the author in 1873 of Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten, a book translated at the suggestion of Darwin in 1883 as The fertilisation of flowers.

In June 1873 Darwin resumed work on his insectivorous plants, with some distractions as his wife Emma took care of the seven Huxley children while Huxley and Hooker went on holiday to the continent.

Emma got Darwin to get the approval of the education inspectorate in London, and just before Christmas 1873 the Darwins and Lubbocks got the agreement of the school committee, offering to pay for any repairs needed " to afford every possible opportunity to the working class for self improvement & amusement ".

However, records show that Knight did not arrive in Darwin until 1873, several years after the publication of Goyder's map.

Early in 1873 he visited Darwin where there was a gold-rush, and found matters completely disorganized.

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

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

#* Charles Louis Napoléon ( III ) Bonaparte ( 1808 – 1873 ) Emperor, married Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick

* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )

* 1873 – Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist ( d. 1947 )

* 1873 – Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur ( d. 1939 )

* Charles Fox Parham ( 1873 – 1929 ) Father of modern Pentecostalism

Cinchona plants were introduced in 1868 by Charles Elliot ( 1863 – 1870 ) with a view to exporting quinine but the experiment was abandoned by his successor Governor C. G. E. Patey ( 1870 – 1873 ), who also embarked on a programme of reducing the civil establishment.

The first number to be proven transcendental without having been specifically constructed for the purpose was e, by Charles Hermite in 1873.

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

* Charles D. Millard ( 1873 – 1944 ), member of U. S. House of Representatives from New York

* Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, later Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( 20 April 1808-9 January 1873 )

* Charles Péguy ( 1873 – 1914 ), poet and essayist

All is Vanity, by Charles Allan Gilbert ( 1873 – 1929 ), carries on this theme.

After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Amy Phipps Guest, ( 1873 – 1959 ), expressed interest in being the first woman to fly ( or be flown ) across the Atlantic Ocean.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

The county is named after Norman B. Campbell, a Dakota Territory legislator in 1873 and son of General Charles T. Campbell.

The county was created by the 1873 territorial legislature and named for Charles Cavileer of Pembina ( 1818 – 1902 ), one of the earliest white settlers.

Cavalier County was created from the western part of Pembina County, North Dakota in 1873 and named by the Territorial Legislature for Charles Turner Cavileer ( 1818 – 1902 ), a well known fur trader, customs agent and postmaster.

Arguments continued about the fate of the garden, with Charles Augustus Tulk's heirs erecting a wooden hoarding around the property in 1873.

The poet Charles Péguy ( 1873 – 1914 ) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the First World War.

* Charles Rigault de Genouilly ( 1807 – 1873 ), French admiral, conqueror of Vietnam.