Page 3: Historical Events In 1873

Apr 08   British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die.   

Apr 13   Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90   

Apr 13   Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed).   

Apr 13   Theodore Morse, composer   

Apr 14   Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer   

Apr 17   Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60   

Apr 18   Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer.   

Apr 18   Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69   

Apr 19   Sydney Barnes, cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)   

Apr 22   Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)   

Apr 24   Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president.   

Apr 25   Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43   

Apr 26   Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon).   

Apr 27   Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)   

Apr 28   A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88.   

Apr 28   Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association).   

Apr 29   Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage).   

May 01   1st US postal card issued.   

May 01   David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60.   

May 01   Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Wien (Vienna)   

May 01   The inaugural US postal card issued   

May 03   Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [OS].   

May 07   Clarence Dickinson, composer   

May 07   US marines attack Panama   

May 08   Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer (England capt 1909-10 later official)   

May 08   John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66.   

May 09   Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.   

May 09   Howard Carter, British archaeologist (are discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb)   

May 09   Howard Carter, English egyptologist is born   

May 10   Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor   

May 12   Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.   

May 13   Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79.   

May 15   Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53.   

May 15   Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]   

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Jan 01   In the year 1873 birth of mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)   

Jan 02   Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957) was born in the year 1873.   

Jan 06   Karl Straube, German organist/conductor was born in the year 1873.   

Jan 07   In the year 1873 birth of adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)   

Jan 08   Lucien Capet, composer was born in the year 1873.   

Jan 08   In the year 1873 birth of iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)   

Jan 03   On this day in history john Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71   

Jan 09   Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808) died in the year 1873.   

Jan 18   In the year 1873 death of edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)   

Jan 20   In the year 1873 death of the Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)   

Jan 28   In the year 1873 henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57   

Feb 01   Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies in the year 1873.   

Feb 07   In the year 1873 death of sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)   

Feb 13   Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies in the year 1873.