1673

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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

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1673

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, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton 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.

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.

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.

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)
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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, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (born c.1599)

★ October 13 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (born 1617)

★ October 17 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, 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)
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