1873 - Wikipedia

Events

First running of the Preakness Stakes horse race in Baltimore, Maryland
February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the 1st Spanish Republic.
February 12 - Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli, former foregin minister, becomes Prime Minister on the new Spanish Republic.
February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California
March 1 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter.
March 3 - Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail
April 1 - The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547.
May 23 - The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police (which will be renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920).
November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Canada's second prime minister.

DDT first synthesized.
Swedish defense industry Bofors is incorporated.
Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
In Mexico, Veracruz to Mexico City railroad completed.
Royal Montreal Club in Montreal, Quebec is founded, becoming the first permanent golf club in North America.
Henry Rose exhibits barbed wire at an Illinois county fair, which is taken up by Joseph Glidden and Jacob Haish, who invent a machine to mass-produce it.
German troops begin to evacuate France
Britain puts pressure on Sultan Barghash Sayyid who closes slave markets in Zanzibar
Peter Tchaikovsky composes The Tempest

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