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Gorgonzola
Sun Oct 22 2000 at 21:05:46
Born in 1773:
William Henry Harrison
, 9th
President of the United States
.
English physicist
Thomas Young
.
Swiss economist
Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi
.
Scottish
Botanist
Robert Brown
.
German composer
Johann Joachim Quantz
.
Prince
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
, architect of Post-Napoleonic Europe, in
Koblenz
.
Events of 1773:
The Trouble with Tea
The British
Parliament
takes some control of
India
away from the corrupt
British East India Company
with a
Regulating Act
asserting sovereignty over
India
and laying out its governance.
The East India Company gains a
monopoly
over
opium
production and founds a bank in
Canton
with the profits.
(May) In order to keep the East India Company from going
bankrupt
, Parliament passes the
Tea Act
:
authorizing the sale of half a million pounds of
tea
to the American colonies free of duties. For the Company, that is.
Allowing the Company to sell tea only through selected merchants, effectively setting up monopolies.
(December) The
Sons of Liberty
, disguised as
Indians
, board ships in
Boston Harbor
and toss the ships' cargo of
tea
into the harbor in order to protest the British tax on tea. (the
Boston Tea Party
)
Pope
Clement XIV
bows to the pressure of the
Bourbon
monarchs and issues an order suppressing the
Jesuit Order
.
The first assembly on
Prince Edward Island
convenes.
Yemelyan Pugachev
escapes from Imperial Russian authorities. Posing as Emperor
Peter III
(who had been murdered in
1762
), he leads a rebellion consisting of
serf
s,
Cossack
s, and clergymen. He lays
siege
to the city of
Orenburg
in the Ural Mountains.
An
earthquake
destroys the capital of
Guatemala
, Santiago de Guatemala, (now called Antigua Guatemala).
Captain
James Cook
's ship, the
Resolution
, is the first to cross the
Antarctic Circle
. The fabulous southern continent is shown not to exist.
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Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
Augustus Frederick Hanover, Duke of Sussex
Thomas Thomson
Bamff
Inch Keith
harp guitar
James Cook
John Dillinger
Military History
Rudjer Boskovic
Hendersonville, Tennessee
USA PATRIOT Act
Raasay
Society of Jesus
1787
Prince Metternich
18th century
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