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SS Atlantic was a White Star Line passenger steamship operating between Europe and North America. On 1 April 1873, it struck rocks near Mars Head, Nova Scotia, after its crew diverted toward Halifax because of concerns about coal supplies. More than 500 people died, making the wreck one of the 19th...
Chennai Central railway station, opened in 1873 and designed by George Hardinge, features a distinctive Italianate clock tower visible across the city center.
SS Ville du Havre was a French transatlantic passenger steamship that sank in the North Atlantic after colliding with the British sailing ship Loch Earn in November 1873. The liner went down rapidly, causing a large loss of life among its passengers and crew. The disaster is also remembered through...
Johann Strauss II's 1873 operetta, set during Carnival in Rome, notable as his first stage work written specifically for the Theater an der Wien.
French satirical vaudeville that transplants the mythological figure of Telemachus into a bourgeois marriage comedy, blending classical allusion with stage farce.
