1773 - What happened in 1773 ?

January 1773

Tuesday 12:

The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.

Sunday 17:

Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

April 1773

Tuesday 27:

The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

October 1773

Tuesday 12:

America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia

Thursday 14:

Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.

December 1773

Thursday 16:

The Boston Tea Party: a crowd of colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumps 342 crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the British Tea tax.