1773 in Great Britain:

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Events from the year 1773 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Frederick North, Lord North, Tory

[edit] Events

• 17 January - Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.^[1]
• March - General Turnpike Act 1773 regulates the system of road tolls.^[2]
• 15 March - first performance of Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.^[3]
• 27 April - Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• 10 May - Tea Act comes into force.^[4]
• May - Parliament passes an Act regulating the East India Company's activities in India and bringing them under government control.^[4]
• 16 December - American colonists protest against the British at the Boston Tea Party.^[4]

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• John Harrison receives the Longitude prize for his invention of the first marine chronometer.^[5]
• An informal Stock Exchange opens at Threadneedle Street in London.^[2]

[edit] Publications

• The Jockey Club's first Racing Calendar, edited by James Weatherby.^[2]

[edit] Births

• 14 January - William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, ambassador to China and Governor-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 and Governor 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)

[edit] Deaths

• 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)

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