- 1773 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1773 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Frederick North, Lord North ,Tory Events
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17 January - CaptainJames Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross theAntarctic Circle . [cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* March -General Turnpike Act 1773 regulates the system ofroad toll s.
*15 March - first performance ofOliver Goldsmith 's play "She Stoops to Conquer " at theCovent Garden Theatre inLondon . [cite web|url=http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/goldsmith002.html|title=She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night, theatrehistory.com|accessdate=2007-08-25]
*27 April - Parliament passes theTea Act , designed to save theBritish East India Company by granting it a monopoly on theNorth America ntea trade.
*10 May - Tea Act comes into force.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=327–328]
* May - Parliament passes an Act regulating the East India Company's activities inIndia and bringing them under government control.
*16 December - American colonists protest against the British at theBoston Tea Party .Undated
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John Harrison receives theLongitude prize for his invention of the firstmarine chronometer . [cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800|accessdate=2007-08-25]
* An informalStock Exchange opens atThreadneedle Street in London.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 226-227|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]Publications
* The
Jockey Club 's first "Racing Calendar", edited by James Weatherby.Births
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14 January -William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst , ambassador to China andGovernor-General of India (died 1857)
*27 January -Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (died 1843)
*6 April -James Mill , historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher (died 1836)
*19 May -Arthur Aikin , chemist and mineralogist (died 1854)
*13 June - Thomas Young, scientist (died 1829)
*23 July -Thomas Brisbane , astronomer andGovernor of New South Wales (died 1860)
*23 October -Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey , judge and literary critic (died 1850)
*6 November - Henry Hunt, politician (died 1835)
*21 December - Robert Brown, botanist (died 1858)
*27 December -George Cayley , aviation pioneer (died 1857)Deaths
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9 February - John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
*24 March -Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield , statesman and man of letters (born 1694)
*15 May -Alban Butler , Catholic priest and writer (born 1710)
*23 July -George Edwards , naturalist (born 1693)
*24 August -George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton , politician (born 1709)
*16 November - John Hawkesworth, writer (born c. 1715)References
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