1673
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1640s 1650s 1660s – 1670s – 1680s 1690s 1700s |
| Years: | 1670 1671 1672 – 1673 – 1674 1675 1676 |
| 1673 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
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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Events of 1673
January–June
June 7: First Battle of Schooneveld (by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1674).
- January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
- 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 win 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.
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 – Battle of Kijkduin: The Dutch United fleet under Michiel 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 – King Charles II of England fires the Earl of Shaftesbury.
- November 11 – Polish and Lithuanian military units under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski defeat the Turkish army in the Battle of Khotyn. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
- November 13 – Dutch troops commanded by Prince Willem III and Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn.
Undated
- France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
- 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.
- The Mitsui family's trading and banking house is founded in Japan.
- The Stalactic 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 the sacrament of the Church of England cannot vote, hold public office, preach, teach, attend the universities and assemble for meetings.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1673 MDCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2426 |
| Armenian calendar | 1122 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -171 – -170 |
| Bengali calendar | 1080 |
| Berber calendar | 2623 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2217 |
| Burmese calendar | 1035 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7181 – 7182 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年十一月十四日 (4309/4369-11-14) — to —
癸丑年十一月廿四日(4310/4370-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 1389 – 1390 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1665 – 1666 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5433 – 5434 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1729 – 1730 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1595 – 1596 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4774 – 4775 |
| Holocene calendar | 11673 |
| Iranian calendar | 1051 – 1052 |
| Islamic calendar | 1083 – 1084 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanbun 12Enpō 1 (延宝元年) |
| Korean calendar | 4006 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2216 |
- 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 Category: 1673 births.
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 Category: 1673 deaths.