Editing 1873 (section)

== Events ==
* January 9 -  [[Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte]], who was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852, and later Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870 as '''Napoleon III''' when he was deposed following his capture, dies in [[exile]] in the United Kingdom.
*March 4 - [[John Brown Gordon]] is elected to the United States Senate.
* April 13 - [[Colfax Massacre]]: 62 - 153 black militia volunteers are killed by a white mob at the Grant parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana.
* July 21 - [[Jesse James]]'s first train robbery occurs in Adair, Iowa. Engineer John Rafferty is killed during the robbery.
* August 4 - [[George Armstrong Custer]] engages the Sioux for the first time near the Tongue River.
* Unknown - The [[California Genocide]] ends, with the deaths of Californian Natives estimated to be between 9,492 and 16,094.