1873 Events

1873 Mark Twain Publishes "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today"
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, comm...
1873 Prince Edward Island
1873 Sullivan Works for William Le Baron Jenney
Laid off in November during the recession of 1873, Louis Henry Sullivan followed his parents to Chicago where Louis Henry Henry Sullivan found a position with the prominent architect Will...
1873 Mar 4 Ulysses S. Grant's second inauguration
Frigid temperatures caused many of the events planned for the second inauguration to be abandoned. The thermometer did not rise much above zero all day, persuading many to avoid the cere...
1873 Apr 1 Sinking of the RMS Atlantic
On 20 March 1873 the Atlantic departed on her 19th voyage from Liverpool with 952 people onboard, of whom 835 were passengers. En route, the crew decided to make port at Halifax, Nova Sco...
1873 Apr 4 Carrie S. Burnham Argues For Her Right To Vote
With this simple question, Carrie S. Burnham began her argument, made before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on April 3 and April 4, 1873, for her right to vote. "It is not simply," Bu...
1873 Jun
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Sullivan Works for Furness & Hewitt
Louis Henry Sullivan left college in June 1873 after his first year to take a job white Frank Furness, a boisterous, innovative Philadelphia architect responsible for several major buildi...
1873 Jul 21 Jesse James And His Gang Turn To Train Robbery
On July 21, 1873, they turned to train robbery, derailing the Rock Island train in Adair, Iowa and stealing approximately $3,000 ($51,000 in 2007). For this, they wore Ku Klux Klan masks,...
1873 Nov 22 Wreck of the SS Ville du Havre
On 15 November 1873, the Ville du Havre sailed from New York with 313 passengers and crew on board, under the command of Captain Marino Surmonte. After a week's steaming across the Atlant...
1873 Dec 7 Willa Cather Is Born
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels...