WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1873
Find out what all happened May to December 1873

Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea. (30. August 1873)

Coronation of Oscar II of Sweden (12. May 1873)

Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens. (23. August 1873)

Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. (18. June 1873)

Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression. (9. May 1873)

Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days. (9. June 1873)

The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system. (2. August 1873)

At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West. (21. July 1873)

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules. (20. October 1873)

The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (23. May 1873)

Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity. (15. September 1873)

Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. (1. July 1873)

American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed. (4. August 1873)

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. (20. May 1873)

Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures. (18. September 1873)

A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. (9. October 1873)

Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War. (3. October 1873)

Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande. (1. September 1873)