January 18 » The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
June 21 » New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Day of death April 30, 1873
The temperature on April 30, 1873 was about 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
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