1773 in science
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The year 1773 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- October 13 - French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy (pictured), an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
[edit] Chemistry
- Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
[edit] Exploration
- January 17 - Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Friedrich Mohs, mineralogist (died 1839)
- May 19 - Arthur Aikin, chemist, mineralogist (died 1854)
- June 13 - Thomas Young, physicist (died 1829)
- July 23 - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer (died 1860)
- December 21 - Robert Brown, botanist (died 1858)
- December 27 - George Cayley, inventor of the airplane (died 1857)
[edit] Deaths
- July 23 - George Edwards, naturalist (born 1693)
