Demonstrators disguised as native Americans destroy tea shipment in Boston (designed by Wannapik)
In the year 1773, the hymn that becomes known as Amazing Grace is first performed in Olney, England (Jan 1), 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 (Apr 27), America’s first insane asylum opens in Williamsburg, Virginia (Oct 12), Sons of Liberty steal aboard ships of the East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor in protest against British tax policies - this becomes known as the** Boston Tea Party** (Dec 16) - and all these fine people were born:
1773-xxxx Margaret King* hostess/traveller/medical adviser - Ireland (1835/c.62)
1773-0109 Cassandra Austen* water colorist/elder sister of Jane Austen - Steventon, Hampshire, England (1845/72)
1773-0209 William Harrison* politician/9usp - Charles City County, Colony of Virginia, British America (1841/68)
1773-0326 Friedrich Mosengeil* German shorthand developer - Schönau, Holy Roman Empire (1839/66)
1773-0409 Marie Boivin* midwife/inventor/ obstetrics writer - Versailles, France (1841/68)
1773-0506 Eliodoro Bianchi* opera singer/voice teacher - Cividate al Piano, Bergamo, Italy (1848/75)
1773-0519 Arthur Aikin* chemist/mineralogist/ scientific writer - Warrington, Lancashire, England (1854/80)
1773-0531 Leopoldina Naudet* beatified nun/founder of Sisters of the Holy Family - Florence, GD of Tuscany (1834/61)
1773-0613 Thomas Young* polymath/scientist - Milverton, Somerset, England (1829/55)
1773-0723 Thomas Brisbane* astronomer/ administrator/Governor of New South Wales - Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland (1860/86)
1773-0812 Karl Faber* archivist/historian - Königsberg, Prussia (1853/79)
1773-0901
1773-0907 Jaakko Jaakonpoika Sillanpää** (b Pauhu) father of Anna Jaakontytär Sillanpää - Pauhu farm, Lapua, Sweden-Finland (1847/73)
1773-0917 Jonathan Alder* American pioneer/as a boy kidnapped by Shawnee tribe - Gloucester, New Jersey (1849/75)
1773-0920
1773-0925 Agostino Bassi* entomologist - Mairago, Lombardy (1856/82)
1773-0930
1773-1019 Luigi Rados* engraver - Parma, Italy (1840/67)
1773-1106 Henry Hunt* politician/radical speaker/agitator - Upavon, Wiltshire, England (1835/61)
1773-1209 Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt* military leader/ diplomat/close advisor to Napoleon Bonaparte - Caulaincourt, Picardy, Kingdom of France (1827/53)
1773-1218 Johan Henrik Avellan* academic/philosopher - Viapori, Sweden-Finland (1832/58)
1773-1227 George Cayley* engineer/inventor/ aviator - Scarborough, Yorkshire, England (1857/83)
Updated 3.4.2023-2
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