1773 in France
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Events from the year 1773 in France
Incumbents
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[edit]- 24 February – Decision of the council reorganizing recovery of the poll tax on the bourgeoisie of Paris. Rents are recorded by Intendant Bertier de Sauvigny and the tax is calculated proportionally; the tax yield increases from 850,000 livres to 1,400,000 livres.[2]
- 7 April or 24 May – Freemasonry in France: The 200 masonic lodges are reorganized within the Grand Orient de France in a vast relational system hierarchized by affiliation.[3]
- 9 May – Hunger riots in Bordeaux.[4]
- 13 October – Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 31 million light-years, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
- Lagrange presents his work on the secular equation of the Moon to the Académie française, introducing the idea of the potential of a body. He also publishes on the attraction of ellipsoids and other mathematical matters.
- Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
- Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposes the use of "muriatic acid gas" (hydrogen chloride) for fumigation of buildings.
- Antoine Baumé publishes his textbook Chymie expérimentale et raisonnée in Paris.
Births
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- 6 April – Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, genealogist (died 1842)
- 2 September – Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, Marshal of France (died 1846)[5]
- 6 September – François Fournier-Sarlovèze, military officer (died 1827)
- 14 September – Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, military officer (died 1822 at sea)
- 6 October – Louis Philippe I "Citizen King" of the French (died 1850)[6]
- 12 December – Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (died 1827)
Deaths
[edit]- 24 January – Philippe Buache, geographer (died 1700)
- 14 March – Philibert Commerson, naturalist (born 1727)
- 30 October – Philippe de La Guêpière, architect (born c.1715)
- 7 November – Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Abbess of Mons (born 1714)
- Full date missing – Maximin de Bompart, naval officer (born 1698)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Touzery, Mireille (1994). L’invention de l’impôt sur le revenu: la taille tarifée 1715-1789. Vincennes: Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique. ISBN 978-2-8218-2850-6.
- ^ Bauer, Alain; Mollier, Pierre (2012). Le Grand Orient de France. Que sais-je?. Paris: PUF. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-13-061447-0.
- ^ Histoire des maires de Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine. 2008. p. 234. ISBN 978-2-84622-171-9.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Bourmont, Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisnes". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ Antonetti, Guy (1994). Louis-Philippe. Fayard. p. PT38. ISBN 978-2-213-65288-7.
