Events from the year 1773 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
- 14 January â William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, ambassador to China and Governor-General of India (died 1857)
- 27 January â Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (died 1843)
- 6 April â James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (died 1836)
- 19 May â Arthur Aikin, chemist and mineralogist (died 1854)
- 13 June â Thomas Young, physicist (died 1829)
- 23 July â Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
- 23 October â Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (died 1850)
- 28 October â Simon Goodrich, mechanical engineer (died 1847)
- 6 November â Henry Hunt, politician (died 1835)
- 21 December â Robert Brown, botanist (died 1858)
- 27 December â George Cayley, aviation pioneer (died 1857)
Deaths
- 9 February â John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
- 24 March â Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters (born 1694)
- 15 May â Alban Butler, Catholic priest and writer (born 1710)
- 23 July â George Edwards, naturalist (born 1693)
- 24 August â George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, politician (born 1709)
- 7 November â Andrew Brice, printer and writer (born 1690)
- 15 November â Bernard Gates, composer (born 1686)
- 16 November â John Hawkesworth, writer (born c. 1715)
- 20 November â Charles Jennens, landowner (born c. 1700)
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