- 1673
Year 1673 (MDCLXXIII) was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1673
January - June
*January 22 - ImpostorMary Carleton is hanged inNewgate prison inEngland for multiple thefts and returning frompenal transportation .
*May 17 - In America, traderLouis Joliet and Jesuitmissionary -explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring theMississippi River and the Great Lakes.
*June 7 - FirstBattle of Schooneveld : In a sea battle of theThird Anglo-Dutch War , fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch win with the fleet of theUnited Provinces (commanded byMichiel de Ruyter ) against the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded byPrince Rupert of the Rhine .
*June 14 - SecondBattle of Schooneveld : The Dutch fleet again defeats the Anglo-French fleet.
*June 17 - French explorers FatherJacques Marquette andLouis Joliet reach the headwaters of theMississippi River and descend toArkansas .July - December
*July 6 - French troops conquerMaastricht .
*July 11 -The Netherlands andDenmark sign a defense treaty.
*July 24 -Edmund Halley entersQueen's College atOxford , as an undergraduate.
*August 8 - In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender ofNew York City .
*August 9 - Dutch forces under AdmiralCornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptureNew York from English (regained by English in following year,1674 ).
*August 21 - Battle of Kijkduin: The Dutch United fleet underMichiel de Ruyter defeats the English and French fleet.
*August 30 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.
*September 12 - Prince Willem III occupies Naarden.
*November 9 - KingCharles II of England fires the Earl of Shaftesbury.
*November 11 - Near Chocim (also spelledKhotin ) in theUkraine , Polish andLithuania n military units under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski defeat the Turkish army. In this battle, rockets ofKazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
*November 13 - Dutch troops commanded by Prince Willem III and Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquerBonn .Undated
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France begins its expedition againstCeylon .
*Christopher Wren is knighted.
*Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, "Cadmus et Hermione".
*Chelsea Physic Garden , the second oldest botanic garden in England, is founded by the Society of Apothecaries for the study of medicinal and other plants.
* TheMitsui family's trading and banking house is founded inJapan .
* TheUniversity of Innsbruck is founded.
* TheStalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea ) is discovered.
* Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his "Zhitie" (Life) as the first Russian autobiography.
*Test Act : Those who refuse to receive thesacrament of theChurch of England cannot vote, hold public office, preach, teach, attend the universities and assemble for meetings.Births
*April 27 -Claude Gillot , French artist (d.1722 )
*July 20 -John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair , 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 ."
Deaths
*February 17 -Molière , French writer and actor (b.1622 )
*March 15 -Salvator Rosa , Italian painter and poet (b.1615 )
*March 20 -Augustyn Kordecki , Polish prior (b.1603 )
*June 18 -Jeanne Mance , French Canadian settler (b.1606 )
*August 17 -Regnier de Graaf , Dutch physician and anatomist (b.1641 )
*August 21 -Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford , English soldier (b. c.1599 )
*October 13 -Kristoffer Gabel , Danish statesman (b.1617 )
*October 17 -Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English statesman (b.1630 )
*November 10 -Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (b.1640 )
*December 15 -Margaret Cavendish , English writer (b.1623 )
*December 31 -Oliver St John , English statesman and judge (b. c.1598 ): "See also ."
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