The University of Michigan moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor in 1839, and the city showed steady growth throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, except during the Depression of 1873.

In 1873, G. W. Reese brought the Detroit & Bay City Railroad through the town.

Charles Rouleau was born in Detroit in 1824 and he died on June 29, 1873 in Rulo.

Czolgosz was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1873, one of eight children ( six sons and two daughters ) of Mary ( née Nowak ) and Paul Czolgosz, Polish Catholic immigrants from Prussia.

Attention turned to the idea of building a railroad bridge over the river in 1873, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned a study of a bridge over the Detroit River.

In 1873, he founded the town of Norris, now within the boundaries of Detroit but then in Wayne County and built the Two Way Inn, which was originally the village's jail and general store.

* Syria by the Sea ( 1873 ), Detroit Institute of Arts

He served on the Board of Estimates of Detroit in 1873 and was a member of the Michigan State Senate 1879-1880.

University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, which opened in 1890, Detroit Country Day School now located in Beverly Hills Michigan, the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, which opened in 1897, The Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati, Ohio, which opened in 1890, or the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland, which opened in 1873.

Both E. W. and his half-sister Ellen worked with his older half-brother, James when he founded The Detroit News in 1873.

* Tuttle, Charles Richard, General History of the state of Michigan with biographical sketches, R. D. S. Tyler & Co., Detroit Free Press Company, 1873

In 1873, a private philanthropist ( John Anderson ) gave Agassiz the island of Penikese, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts ( south of New Bedford ), and presented him with $ 50, 000 to permanently endow it as a practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology.

Bay County in 1873 ; a decade later Arenac County, Michigan | Arenac County was organized from the northern townships seen in this map.

In 1873, Charles C. Fitzhugh, Jr., a Bay City pioneer, and his wife, Jane, purchased land and built a home on property bounded by Washington, Saginaw, Ninth and Tenth Streets, which later became the location for City Hall.

* The shipwreck site of the Meridian, a schooner that sank in 1873, is located off the coast of Sister Bay.

The city's name was changed from Porterville in 1873 when the Green Bay and Western Railroad was routed through the city.

( On 7 June 1873, the Hawke's Bay Herald reported: " The name of the new town is to be Hastings.

* 1860, 1873: Michael Phillips ( Hudson's Bay Company ) traverses pass, reports coal deposits.

On October 31, 1873 the Virginius was run down in neutral waters by the Spanish warship, the Tornado, off of Morant Bay, Jamaica.

In the summer of 1873, a few years before the chief's passing, a city began on his land along Little Traverse Bay.

In March 1873, he visited the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

Hume made several expeditions solely to study ornithology and in March 1873 he made one to the Andaman, Nicobar and other islands in the Bay of Bengal along with geologists Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka and Dr. Dougall of the Geological Survey of India and James Wood-Mason of the Indian Museum in Calcutta.

Of these, six were drowned with the wreck of the " Northfleet " in January 1873, and Tom Edgar who was with Captain Cook in 1779, when he sailed around the world and then was killed in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, by cannibals.

In 1870, the first lighthouse at Cape Blanco was built and was soon followed by both the Yaquina Bay Light and Yaquina Head Light in 1871 and 1873, respectively.

The inhabitants of Prince Arthur's Landing were the driving force behind the creation of Thunder Bay District's first municipality, the Municipality of Shuniah in March 1873, an early form of regional government which stretched from Sibley Peninsula to the U. S. border.

Thunder Bay mayors and councillors, 1873 – 1945: including Port Arthur and Fort William, Ontario ( 1884 – 1945 ) and their predecessors, the municipalities of Shuniah ( 1873 – 1884 ) and Neebing ( 1881 – 1892 ): a biographical and genealogical dictionary and electoral history.

In 1873 the Northern Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad in the northern United States, announced it would locate its terminus at Commencement Bay.

Construction of the Gippsland line was authorised in 1873 but the line could not be brought into Melbourne by the direct route used today as the private Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company controlled the lines from Flinders Street station to South Yarra, and no connection existed between Flinders Street and Spencer Street stations.

The settlement was headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Northern Department, from 1821 to 1873.

Coogee was gazetted as a village in 1838, in 1863 the first school was built which was later converted to become the Coogee Bay Hotel in 1873, three years later in 1876 Coogee Public School was established.

A Post Office of that name ( with a fortnightly mail delivery ) opened on 1 May 1873 ( relocated to the township of Krambruk in 1881 and renamed Apollo Bay in 1898 ).

With the backing of Jay Gould, who gained control of the Kent County Railroad in June 1873, it began construction in April 1873 and opened in September 1873, from Woodland Beach, Delaware, on the Delaware Bay, west to the state line, where an extension of the Kent County Railroad was built to connect ( using the clause in the charter allowing for branches ).

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

Yale, together with Rutgers, Princeton and Columbia met on October 20, 1873 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to agree a set of rules and regulations that would allow them play a form of football that was essentially Association football ( today often called " soccer " in the US ) in character.

He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kaunas, Lithuania ; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City.

* United States: 26 November 1873, Academy of Music in New York City, with Ostava Torriani in the title role, Annie Louise Cary as Amneris, Italo Campanini as Radamès, Victor Maurel as Amonasro, and Evasio Scolara as the King

* 1876 ( executed 1872, cast 1873 ): The Marquis de Lafayette Statue, in Union Square, New York City, United States ;

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

Armstrong County is home to the City of Parker, an incorporated third-class city, which was an oil boom town with a population rumored to be approximately 20, 000 in 1873, but now is the " Smallest City in America " with a population of just under 800.

South Pass City was the county seat from 1867 until 1873.

Other towns platted in the county's early years included Greencastle ( 1857 ), Newtown ( 1858 ), Pollock ( 1873 ), Boynton and Cora ( 1877 ), Green City and Winigan ( 1880 ), Humphreys and Reger ( 1881 ), Osgood ( 1886 ), and Harris ( 1887 ).

In 1873, a group of three men organized Harper County, designating the then fictitious city of " Bluff City " as the county seat.

Originally based in Old Colorado City ( now part of Colorado Springs, not today's Colorado City between Pueblo and Walsenburg ), El Paso County's county seat was moved to Colorado Springs in 1873.

In response, the railway officials sent a force of men without notice to move the station house from Weaver City half a mile east across the state border, which they did on the Sunday morning of March 10, 1873.

Clay City was originally platted in 1873 under the name " Markland ," but that name could not be used because another post office in Indiana used that name.

Following the reorganization of Harper County in 1878 following the original fraudulent organization in 1873, Anthony was designated the temporary county seat, as Bluff City, designated county seat of the fraudulent county organization, did not exist at the time.

In 1873, Falmouth nearly became the county seat, losing to Reeder ( now Lake City ) by one vote.

He founded the Stotts City Mining Company in July, 1873.

The designation was challenged by Beaver City ; an 1873 election, followed my extensive litigation, moved the county seat to Beaver City in 1876.

Beach Haven, known on LBI as the " Queen City ," is a late 19th century beach-front resort originally established in 1873 to house wealthy summer residents from Philadelphia.