WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1773
Find out what all happened May to October 1773

Cúcuta, Colombia, is discovered by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar. (17. June 1773)

The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. (13. October 1773)

America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia. (12. October 1773)

The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. (14. October 1773)

The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. (10. May 1773)

Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland. (14. October 1773)

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