1873

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  – 1870s –  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1870 1871 1872 – 1873 – 1874 1875 1876

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1873 Media

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  Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976),[1] born Adolph Cukor, was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.

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  (Amalie Auguste) Melitta Bentz (January 31, 1873–June 29, 1950), born Amalie Auguste Melitta Liebscher, was a German entrepreneur, who invented the coffee filter in 1908.

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  Enrico Caruso, 1873-1921, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left

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  Sergei Rachmaninoff, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right

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  HansBerger_Univ_Jena.jpeg*Photo of Hans Berger (1873-1941), inventor of the electroencephalogram (EEG) and Rector of Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (1927-1938)

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  Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936

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  French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)

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  Prince Yamashina Kikumaro

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  Schwarzschild

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  Ramoncastillo

1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1873rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 873rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1873, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• February 11 – King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
• Blue jeans patented.

Births

• Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau – French painter (d. 1919)