1873

1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. As of the start of the year, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.

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

1873 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1873 MDCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2626
Armenian calendar	1322 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6623
Bahá'í calendar	29–30
Balinese saka calendar	1794–1795
Bengali calendar	1280
Berber calendar	2823
British Regnal year	36 Vict. 1 – 37 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2417
Burmese calendar	1235
Byzantine calendar	7381–7382
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4569 or 4509     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4570 or 4510
Coptic calendar	1589–1590
Discordian calendar	3039
Ethiopian calendar	1865–1866
Hebrew calendar	5633–5634
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1929–1930
- Shaka Samvat	1794–1795
- Kali Yuga	4973–4974
Holocene calendar	11873
Igbo calendar	873–874
Iranian calendar	1251–1252
Islamic calendar	1289–1290
Japanese calendar	Meiji 6 (明治６年)
Javanese calendar	1801–1802
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4206
Minguo calendar	39 before ROC 民前39年
Nanakshahi calendar	405
Thai solar calendar	2415–2416
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1999 or 1618 or 846     — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 2000 or 1619 or 847

Events

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

Births

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