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

It remained a small settlement of rudimentary huts through the 1870s despite adding a police station and in 1873, the first general store, Rowe's, blacksmith, foundry and a public hall which remains the city's oldest building.

Because the stronghold status had slowed down the city's development for many years, the citizens tried to abolish the stronghold status in the 19th century ; the fortifications were only moved to the east in 1873, and finally taken down in 1902, which allowed the city to develop.

The city's first fire marshal, George H. Sheldon, was appointed in 1873, eight years after the reorganization of the fire department into a career department in 1865.

Winnipeg was formally incorporated as a city in 1873, and Cornish declared himself a candidate for the city's mayoralty.

* Bailey Gatzert, council member 1872 – 1873 and 1877 – 1878, in between was elected the city's first ( and, as of 2011, only ) Jewish mayor

Jacksonville's three newly constructed high schools — Lee High, Andrew Jackson High, and ( Julia E .) Landon High — replaced Duval High School ( c. 1873 – 1927 ), the city's original secondary institution for white students.

Following the death of the city's governor Lev Kulchitsky in 1873, he served briefly as acting governor.

Following the opening of the cable hauled Clay Street Hill Railroad in 1873, pressure grew to convert the city's horsecar lines to the new form of traction.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

* 1954 – Colette, French writer ( b. 1873 )

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.

* 1873 – Francis Garnier, French explorer ( b. 1839 )

* 1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French Roman Catholic nun ( d. 1897 )

* 1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( d. 1939 )

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

* 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian ( b. 1797 )

* 1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer ( d. 1873 )

* 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator ( d. 1954 )

As well as the Hall, Waterhouse built a new range of rooms, Red Buildings ( 1871 – 2 ), in French Renaissance style, designed a new Master's Lodge on the site of Paschal Yard ( 1873, later to become N staircase ), pulled down the old Lodge and the south range of Old Court to open a vista to the Chapel, and finally built a new Library ( 1877 – 8 ) in the continental Gothic style.

* 1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer ( b. 1823 )

* 1873 – Alfred Jarry, French playwright ( d. 1907 )

* August 12 – Anna Held, French actress ( b. 1873 )

** Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( b. 1873 )

* March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director ( b. 1873 )

* August 4 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director ( b. 1873 )

* January 4 – Leon Delagrange, French pioneer aviator ( b. 1873 )

* November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer ( d. 1873 )

* September 30 – St Thérèse de Lisieux, French Catholic saint ( b. 1873 )

* May 28 – Louis Agassiz, French zoologist and geologist ( d. 1873 )

* February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French silent film director ( b. 1873 )

* April 20 – Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( d. 1873 )

* Walter Pater, " Joachim du Bellay ", essay in The Renaissance ( 1873 ) pp. 155 – 176

His text Studies in the History of the Renaissance ( 1873 ) was very well regarded by art-oriented young men of the late 19th century.

in W. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance ( 1873 ) and The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry ( 1877 ))

The last three, with other similar pieces, were collected in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance ( 1873 ), renamed in the second and later editions The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry.

Pater's critical method was outlined in the ' Preface ' to The Renaissance ( 1873 ) and refined in his later writings.

* Matthew Beaumont, ed., Studies in the History of the Renaissance ( Oxford World's Classics, OUP, 2010 ; ISBN 0-19-953507-8 / 0-19-953507-8 ) An annotated edition of the 1873 text.

Treberfydd ( 1850 ), Quar Wood ( 1858 ), Lechlade Manor, an Elizabethan house ( 1873 ), Westwood House, Sydenham, in the French Renaissance style ( 1880 ), the Astor estate offices ( 1892 ) upon the Victoria Embankment, London, the remodelling of the interiors of Cliveden House ( 1893 ) and No. 18 Carlton House Terrace ( 1894 ), with many parsonages, show his aptitude for domestic architecture.

John Rosamond Johnson ( 1873 – 1954 ), most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance.

It was marked above all by the construction of the Arkadenhof, a striking Renaissance building, which in 1873 was replaced by the present-day Grabenhof.