Timeline September 1773

Events in September 1773 3

• 1773 Phillis Wheatley publishes her first book of poetry Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral appears in London Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved African American poet from Boston, published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in London after American publishers declined the work. She became the first person of African descent and first enslaved American to publish a book of poetry. The book challenged contemporary assumptions about the intellectual capacities of Black people.
• 1773 Pugachev's Rebellion begins Cossack Yemelyan Pugachev raises revolt claiming to be Tsar Peter III Yemelyan Pugachev, a Cossack claiming to be the murdered Tsar Peter III, launched an uprising among Cossacks, serfs, and ethnic minorities along the Yaik River against Catherine the Great's rule. The revolt grew into the largest peasant rebellion in Russian history before its suppression in 1775. It exposed deep unrest among Russia's serf and frontier populations.
• 1773 Partition Sejm ratifies the First Partition of Poland Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth formally cedes territory to Russia, Prussia, and Austria Under pressure from occupying troops, the Polish Sejm ratified the treaties ceding roughly 30 percent of the Commonwealth's territory to Russia, Prussia, and Austria, formalizing the partition carried out the previous year. The session became known as the Partition Sejm. It marked the beginning of the dismemberment of the Polish-Lithuanian state, completed by 1795.