Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1773

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Literature

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell make their tour of the Hebrides

Theatre

March: Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

Art

William Blake, "Joseph of Arimathea" (his earliest picture)
George Romney travels in Italy (until 1775)

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

The first cast-iron bridge is built in Shropshire, England

Politics & Law

December: The Boston Tea Party in America
The Regulating Act of Lord North regulates the East India Company's powers and institutes a system of dual control of India

Philosophy & Theology

Milestones

Miscellaneous

January: Captain Cook is the first to cross the Antarctic Circle

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