1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1873rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 873rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1873, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1873 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1873
MDCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita2626
Armenian calendar1322
ԹՎ ՌՅԻԲ
Assyrian calendar6623
Baháʼí calendar29–30
Balinese saka calendar1794–1795
Bengali calendar1280
Berber calendar2823
British Regnal year36 Vict. 1 – 37 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2417
Burmese calendar1235
Byzantine calendar7381–7382
Chinese calendar壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4570 or 4363
    — to —
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4571 or 4364
Coptic calendar1589–1590
Discordian calendar3039
Ethiopian calendar1865–1866
Hebrew calendar5633–5634
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1929–1930
 - Shaka Samvat1794–1795
 - Kali Yuga4973–4974
Holocene calendar11873
Igbo calendar873–874
Iranian calendar1251–1252
Islamic calendar1289–1290
Japanese calendarMeiji 6
(明治6年)
Javanese calendar1801–1802
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4206
Minguo calendar39 before ROC
民前39年
Nanakshahi calendar405
Thai solar calendar2415–2416
Tibetan calendar阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
1999 or 1618 or 846
    — to —
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
2000 or 1619 or 847

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–March

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Adolph Zukor
 
Melitta Bentz
 
Enrico Caruso
 
Sergei Rachmaninoff
 
Hans Berger
 
Otto Loewi
 
Alexis Carrel

April–June

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July–September

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Prince Yamashina Kikumaro
 
Karl Schwarzschild
 
Ramón Castillo

October–December

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Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Napoleon III
 
Justus von Liebig
 
David Livingstone

July–December

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Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg

References

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Further reading and year books

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  • 1873 Annual Cyclopedia (1874) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1873; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 831pp