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1873
1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
January births
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Deaths
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January 9 - Napoleon III, last emperor of France, in exile in England
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January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author
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January 20 - Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau , founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross
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February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer
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March 10 - John Torrey, (American botanist
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April 11 - Edward Canby, US Army General killed during peace negations with Captain Jack
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May 6 - José Antonio Páez, First Venezuelan president
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May 8 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, (b. 1806)
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May 20 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman
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September 17 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer, founder of Berry, Australia.
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September 22 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801)
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September 23 - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (b. 1823)
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October 3 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader, hanged for the murder of Edward Canby
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October 6 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
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December 14 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American geologist and naturalist
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