Europe
- Austria-Hungary – Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1848–1916)
- Minister-President of Austria – Prince Adolf Wilhelm Daniel von Auersperg, Minister-President of Austria (1871–1879)
- Minister-President of Hungary – József Szlávy, Minister-President of Hungary (1872–1874)
- Belgium
- Monarch – Léopold II, King of the Belgians (1865–1909)
- Cabinet Chief – Jules Malou, Cabinet Chief of Belgium (1871–1878, 1884)
- Denmark
- Monarch – Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863–1906)
- Prime Minister – Ludvig Henrik Carl Herman, Prime Minister of Denmark (1870–1874)
- France –
- President –
- Adolphe Thiers, President of France (1871–1873)
- Patrice Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (1873–1879)
- Prime Minister –
- Jules Dufaure, President of the Council (1871–1873)
- Albert de Broglie, President of the Council (1873–1874)
- President –
- German Empire –
- Monarch – Wilhelm I, Kaiser (1871–1888)
- Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany (1871–1890)
- see also List of German rulers in 1873
- Greece –
- Monarch – George I, King of the Hellenes (1863–1913)
- Prime Minister – Epameinontas Deligeorgis, Prime Minister of Greece (1872–1874)
- Italy –
- Monarch – Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy (1861–1878)
- Prime Minister –
- Giovanni Lanza, Prime Minister of Italy (1869–1873)
- Marco Minghetti, Prime Minister of Italy (1873–1876)
- Luxembourg
- Monarch – William III, King of the Netherlands (1849–1890)
- Prime Minister – Emmanuel Servais, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1867–1874)
- Netherlands
- Monarch – William III, King of the Netherlands (1849–1890)
- Prime Minister – Gerrit de Vries, Chairman of the Dutch council of ministers (1872–1874)
- Ottoman (Turkish) Empire
- Monarch – Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1861–1876)
- Grand Vizier –
- Mütercim Mehmed Rüstü Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1872–1873)
- Mehmed Esad Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1873)
- Sirvanizade Mehmed Rüstü Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (1873–1874)
- Portugal – Luis, King of Portugal (1861–1889)
- Romania – Carol I, Prince of Romania (1866–1881)
- Russia – Alexander II, Tsarof Russia (1855–1881)
- Spain –
- Monarch – Amadeus, King of Spain (1870–1873)
- President – Establishment of First Spanish Republic
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- Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, President of Spain (1873–1874)
- Prime Minister –
- Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Prime Minister of Spain (1871, 1872–1873)
- Estanislao Figueras y Moragas, Prime Minister of Spain (1873)
- Francisco Pi y Margall, Prime Minister of Spain (1873)
- Nicolás Salmerón Alonso, Prime Minister of Spain (1873)
- Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, Prime Minister of Spain (1873–1874)
- Sweden – United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway – Oscar II, King of Sweden (1872–1907)
- United Kingdom
- Monarch – Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901)
- Prime Minister – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894)
Read more about this topic: List Of State Leaders In 1873
Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)