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1773| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1766–1777 | UK [canals] | English engineer James Brindley begins work on the Grand Trunk Canal linking the Trent and Mersey rivers. It crosses the Pennines by the Harecastle tunnel and will establish a water route between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. | | 1770–1780 | America [statistics and demography] | The estimated population of the American colonies is 2,780,369 including 575,420 black slaves. | | 1773 | England [plays] | The comedy She Stoops to Conquer, by the English writer Oliver Goldsmith, is first performed, in London, England. | | 1773 | America [political theory] | The American writer, scientist, and politician Benjamin Franklin publishes his satirical political tract Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One. | | 1773 | America [clothing and fashion] | Fashionable colonial women wear corsets. | | 16 December 1773 | America, UK [American Revolution] | In the Boston Tea Party, Americans protest against the tax on tea by boarding ships in Boston Harbour and throwing 342 chests of British tea overboard. |
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