What Happened in May 1873

Historical Events

May 1 Alexandra Palace opens on Queen Victoria's 54th birthday with a grand celebration including concerts, recitals and fireworks

May 20 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets

May 23 1st Preakness Stakes: G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until 1904)
May 23 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
May 24 Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit" premieres in Paris

May 27 Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia

May 3 Nicoline Magdalene Roll Anker, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den), born in Møre og Romsdal, Norway (d. 1942)
May 3 Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general, born in Wiesbaden, Germany (d. 1945)
May 4 Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director, born in Bathurst, New Brunswick Canada (d. 1940)
May 7 Clarence Dickinson, American composer, born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1969)
May 8 Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer (England capt 1909-10 later official)

May 9 Howard Carter, British archaeologist and egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun's tomb, born in London (d. 1939)

May 9 Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater), born in London (d. 1937)
May 9 Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), born in Kladno, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1933)
May 10 Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor
May 10 Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
May 15 Nikolay Tcherepnin, Russian composer of ballets, born in St Petersburg, Russia [OS: 03/05]
May 17 Dorothy M. Richardson, English novelist (Pilgrimage), born in Abington, Berkshire (d. 1957)
May 17 Henri Barbusse, French novelist (Le Feu), born in Asnieres, France (d. 1935)
May 19 Federico Gerdes, composer
May 21 Emil Ermatinger, Swiss literature historian, born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1953)
May 21 Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
May 21 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
May 23 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
May 26 C.G.N. de Vooys, Dutch translator and founder (New Taalgids), born in Gouda, Netherlands (d. 1955)
May 26 Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1958)

May 1 David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60

May 8 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist and utilitarian, dies of erysipelas at 66