President:
Pres: Ulysses S. Grant
General
- Crime: Jesse James train robbery
- Culture: Women's Temperance Movement begins unofficially
Comstock Act bans contraceptives and obscene material sent through US postal service
- Economy: US stock market crash and panic results in six-year depression
Finandial panic in Vienna and New York
Panic of 1873 due to collapse of major investor in railroad construction
- Fashion: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent riveted pants
- Medicine: Flu outbreak (pandemic)
- Natives: First clash between Custer and Sioux
- Science: American Association for the Advancement of Science demands preservation of resources
- Sports: American Football clubs adopt uniform rules
- Technology: First commercial typewriters manufactured in US by gunsmiths E Remington and sons
Indians - Modoc War ends with capture of Captain Jack,
East
Midwest
South
- Alabama: Cholera outbreak with arrival of railroad
- Louisiana: Mardi Gras evolves as Rex, King of Carnival first named – Krewe of Comus lampoons Darwinism
West and Pacific
- General: CA/OR quake est at 7.3
- California: San Francisco cable cars born
- Nevada: Education mandatory