Historical Events In 1873
Saturday, 21 February 2026
Jan 01 Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses) 


Jan 01 Origin of Japanese Era 


Jan 02 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics). 


Jan 03 John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71. 


Jan 06 Karl Straube, German organist/conductor 


Jan 06 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia". 


Jan 07 Adolph Zukor, American film producer is born. 


Jan 07 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount) 


Jan 07 Charles Peguy, French poet is born 


Jan 08 Lucien Capet, composer 


Jan 11 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago 


Jan 11 The inaugural livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago. 


Jan 13 P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor 


Jan 13 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor. 


Jan 14 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark. 


Jan 15 Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist. 


Jan 16 Boyd Alexander, English explorer 


Jan 17 A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the inaugural Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War. 


Jan 17 Francois Rasse, composer. 


Jan 19 Hans E Blaich, writer 


Jan 20 Charles A Ellwood, US, sociologist/psychologist. 


Jan 22 Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die 


Jan 28 Colette, writer. 


Jan 28 Henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57 


Jan 29 Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias) 


Jan 30 Rose Melville, actress (Sis). 


Feb 01 Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope and Glory). 


Feb 01 Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies 


Feb 02 Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38). 


Feb 03 Ernest B Allo, French theologist. 


Feb 11 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life). 


Feb 11 Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I. 


Feb 12 Congress abolishes bimetallism and authorizes $1 and $3 gold coins. 


Feb 13 Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies 


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