1773 in France
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Events from the year 1773 in France
Incumbents
Events
- 24 February – Decision of the council reorganizing recovery of the poll tax on the bourgeoisie of Paris. Rents are recorded by Intendant Bertier de Sauvigny and the tax is calculated proportionally; the tax yield increases from 850,000 livres to 1,400,000 livres.{{cite book|first=Mireille|last=Touzery|title=L’invention de l’impôt sur le revenu: la taille tarifée 1715-1789|location=Vincennes|publisher=Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique|year=1994|isbn=978-2-8218-2850-6|url=http://books.openedition.org/igpde/2080}}
- 7 April or 24 May – Freemasonry in France: The 200 masonic lodges are reorganized within the Grand Orient de France in a vast relational system hierarchized by affiliation.{{cite book|first1=Alain|last1=Bauer|first2=Pierre|last2=Mollier|title=Le Grand Orient de France|location=Paris|publisher=PUF|series=Que sais-je?|year=2012|page=14|isbn=978-2-13-061447-0}}
- 9 May – Hunger riots in Bordeaux.{{cite book|title=Histoire des maires de Bordeaux|location=Bordeaux|publisher=Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine|year=2008|isbn=978-2-84622-171-9|page=234}}
- 13 October – Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 31 million light-years, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
- Lagrange presents his work on the secular equation of the Moon to the Académie Française, introducing the idea of the potential of a body. He also publishes on the attraction of ellipsoids and other mathematical matters.
- Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
- Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposes the use of "muriatic acid gas" (hydrogen chloride) for fumigation of buildings.
- Antoine Baumé publishes his textbook Chymie expérimentale et raisonnée in Paris.
Births
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- 6 April – Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, genealogist (died 1842)
- 2 September – Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, Marshal of France (died 1846){{cite encyclopedia |title=Bourmont, Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisnes |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=3 |year=1915 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0835.html |access-date=3 September 2015 }}
- 6 September – François Fournier-Sarlovèze, military officer (died 1827)
- 14 September – Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, military officer (died 1822 at sea)
- 6 October – Louis Philippe I "Citizen King" of the French (died 1850){{cite book|first=Guy|last=Antonetti|title=Louis-Philippe|publisher=Fayard|year=1994|isbn=978-2-213-65288-7|page=PT38}}
- 12 December – Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (died 1827)
Deaths
- 24 January – Philippe Buache, geographer (died 1700)
- 14 March – Philibert Commerson, naturalist (born 1727)
- 30 October – Philippe de La Guêpière, architect (born c.1715)
- 7 November – Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Abbess of Mons (born 1714)
- Full date missing – Maximin de Bompart, naval officer (born 1698)
See also
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