1673
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Template:C17YearInTopicX Year 1673 (MDCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1673
[edit] January - June
- January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
- March 18 - John Berkeley sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers.
- May 17 - In America, trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
- June 7 - First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch won with the fleet of the United Provinces (commanded by Michiel de Ruyter) against the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
- June 14 - Second Battle of Schooneveld: The Dutch fleet again defeats the Anglo-French fleet.
- June 17 - French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas.
[edit] July - December
- July 6 - French troops conquer Maastricht.
- July 11 - The Netherlands and Denmark sign a defense treaty.
- July 24 - Edmund Halley enters Queen's College at Oxford, as an undergraduate.
- August 8 - In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of New York City.
- August 9 - Dutch forces under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture New York from English (regained by English in following year, 1674).
- August 21 - Sea battle at Kijkduin: The Dutch United fleet under Michiel de Ruyter defeats the English and French fleet.
- August 30 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.
- September 12 - Prince Willem III occupies Naarden.
- November 9 - King Charles II of England fires the earl of Shaftesbury.
- November 11 - Near Chocim (also spelled Khotin) in the Ukraine, Polish and Lithuanian military units under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski defeat the Turkish army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimieras Simonavičius (Kazimierz Siemienowicz) were successfully used.
- November 13 - Dutch troops commanded by Prince Willem III and Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn.
[edit] Undated
- France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
- Christopher Wren is knighted.
- Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermione.
- Chelsea Physic Garden, second oldest botanic garden in England, is founded by the Society of Apothecaries for the study of medicinal and other plants.
- Mitsui family's trading and banking house is founded in Japan.
- University of Innsbruck is founded.
- Stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) is discovered.
- Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his "Zhitie" (Life) as the first Russian autobiography.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1673 MDCLXXIII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2426 |
| Armenian calendar | 1122 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -171 – -170 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2217 |
| Coptic calendar | 1389 – 1390 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1665 – 1666 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5433 – 5434 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1728 – 1729 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1595 – 1596 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4774 – 4775 |
| Holocene calendar | 11673 |
| Iranian calendar | 1051 – 1052 |
| Islamic calendar | 1083 – 1084 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanbun
12
— changed to — Enpō
1
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2333 (皇紀2333年) |
| Julian calendar | 1718 |
| Korean calendar | 4006 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2216 |
- April 27 - Claude Gillot, French artist (d. 1722)
- July 20 - John Dalrymple, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d. 1747)
- August 8 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
- August 11 - Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
- October 26 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (d. 1723)
- December 30 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
- Mir Wais Khan Hotaki, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1715)
- See also 1673 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - Molière, French writer and actor (born 1622)
- March 15 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (born 1615)
- March 20 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (born 1603)
- June 18 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (born 1606)
- August 17 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (born 1641)
- August 21 - Henry Grey, English soldier (born c.1599)
- October 13 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (born 1617)
- October 17 - Thomas Clifford, English statesman (born 1630)
- November 10 - Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (b. 1640)
- December 15 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (born 1623)
- December 31 - Oliver St John, English statesman and judge (born c.1598)
- See also 1673 deaths.
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