Editing 1673 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Impersonator [[Mary Carleton]] is [[hanging|hanged]] at [[Newgate Prison]] in London, for multiple thefts and returning from [[penal transportation]].
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Molière]]'s ''[[comédie-ballet]]'' ''[[The Imaginary Invalid]]'' premiers in Paris. During the fourth performance, on [[February 17]], the playwright, playing the title rôle, collapses on stage, dying soon after.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Test Act]]: [[Roman Catholic]]s and others who refuse to receive the [[sacrament]] of the [[Church of England]] cannot vote, hold public office, preach, teach, attend the universities or assemble for meetings in [[Kingdom of England|England]]. On [[June 12]], the king's Catholic brother, [[James, Duke of York]], is forced to resign the office of Lord High Admiral because of the Act.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology276">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/276 276]}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 27]] &ndash; ''[[Cadmus et Hermione]]'', the first opera written by [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], premières at the [[Paris Opera]] in France. <ref>"''Cadmus et Hermione''", in ''The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music'', ed. by Barrie Jones (Taylor & Francis, 1998) p. 104</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; In America, trader [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[missionary]]-[[explorer]] [[Jacques Marquette]] begin exploring the [[Mississippi River]] and the [[Great Lakes (North America)|Great Lakes]].
* [[June 7]] &ndash; First [[Battle of Schooneveld]]: In a sea battle of the [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]], fought off the Netherlands coast, the [[Dutch Republic]] fleet (commanded by [[Michiel de Ruyter]]) defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet, commanded by [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine]].
* [[June 14]] &ndash; Second [[Battle of Schooneveld]]: The Dutch fleet again defeats the joint Anglo-French fleet.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[France|French]] explorers Father [[Jacques Marquette]] and [[Louis Joliet]] reach the headwaters of the [[Mississippi River]], and descend to [[Arkansas]].

=== July&ndash;September ===   
[[File:Iwakuni, ponte kintai-kyo, 03,0.jpg|thumb| [[Kintai Bridge]] officially complete in Japan on October 3]]
* [[July 6]] &ndash; French troops conquer [[Maastricht]].
* [[July 11]] &ndash; The [[Netherlands]] and [[Denmark-Norway]] sign a defense treaty.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Edmund Halley]] enters [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], as an undergraduate.
* [[August 8]] &ndash; In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of [[New York City|New York]].
* [[August 9]] &ndash; Dutch forces under Admiral [[Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest]] recapture [[New York City|New York]] from the English; the city is known as New Orange until regained by the English in [[1674]].
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Battle of Texel]] (Kijkduin): The Dutch fleet under [[Michiel de Ruyter]] defeats the English and French fleet. This prevents England's [[Blackheath Army]] from landing in [[Zeeland]].
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]], Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]] occupies [[Siege of Naarden (1673)|Naarden]], Netherlands.

=== October&ndash;December ===   
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Kintai Bridge]] is officially completed in [[Iwakuni]], [[Suō Province]] (modern-day [[Yamaguchi Prefecture]]), Japan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[Kintaikyo Bridge] Iwakuni city Homepage > Summary|url=http://kintaikyo.iwakuni-city.net/en/summary.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=kintaikyo.iwakuni-city.net}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; King [[Charles II of England]] removes [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], from his position as Lord Chancellor.
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Khotyn (1673)|Battle of Khotyn]]: [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Lithuania]]n military units, under the command of soon-to-be-king [[Jan III Sobieski|Jan Sobieski]], defeat the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] army. In this battle, which takes place one day after the death of Poland and Lithuania's monarch, [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki]], the rockets invented by [[Kazimierz Siemienowicz]] are successfully used.
* [[November 13]] &ndash; Dutch troops commanded by [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]] and [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]] conquer [[Bonn]].
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Christopher Wren]] is knighted in England.
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[James II of England|James, Duke of York]], marries [[Mary of Modena]];<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=191–192|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> they meet for the first time immediately before the ceremony in [[Dover]].
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal, 6th Duke of Veragua|Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal]] dies only five days after arriving in Mexico City to take office as the new [[viceroy of New Spain]].  He is replaced on December 13 by [[Payo Enríquez de Rivera]], the former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; King [[Louis XIV]] of France issues a decree recognizing the legitimacy of (and giving royal titles to) the three children whom he had sired through his mistress, the [[Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan|Marquise de Montespan]]: [[Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine]]; [[Louis César, Count of Vexin]]; and [[Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Princess of Condé]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; In China, General [[Wu Sangui]] begins the [[Revolt of the Three Feudatories]], a rebellion against the [[Qing dynasty]] by killing the Governor of the [[Yunnan]] province, Zhu Guozhi.  Within 10 days, he leads troops on an expedition to take over the neighboring [[Guizhou]] province and by 1676 controls 11 of China's provinces.

=== Date unknown ===
* France begins its expedition against [[Ceylon]].
* [[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 [[Stalactite|stalactic]] grotto of [[Antiparos]] ([[Aegean Sea]]) is discovered.
* Archpriest [[Avvakum|Petrovich Avvakum]] writes his ''Zhitie'' (Life), as the first [[Russian people|Russian]] autobiography.
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