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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year dab|1673}} {{refimprove|date=January 2016}} {{Year nav|1673}} [[File:Marquette and Joliet entering the Mississippi, 1673, Milwaukee Public Museum (NBY 21193).jpg|300px|thumb|[[June 17]]: French explorers Marquette and Joliet become the first Europeans to travel on the [[Mississippi River]].]] {{C17 year in topic}} [[File:The First Battle of Schooneveld, 28 May 1673 van de Velde RMG BHC0305.jpg|thumb|[[June 7]]: ''First [[Battle of Schooneveld]]''.]] {{Year article header|1673}} == Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 22]] – Impersonator [[Mary Carleton]] is [[hanging|hanged]] at [[Newgate Prison]] in London, for multiple thefts and returning from [[penal transportation]]. * [[February 10]] – [[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]] – [[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–June === * [[April 27]] – ''[[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]] – 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]] – 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]] – Second [[Battle of Schooneveld]]: The Dutch fleet again defeats the joint Anglo-French fleet. * [[June 17]] – [[France|French]] explorers Father [[Jacques Marquette]] and [[Louis Joliet]] reach the headwaters of the [[Mississippi River]], and descend to [[Arkansas]]. === July–September === [[File:Iwakuni, ponte kintai-kyo, 03,0.jpg|thumb| [[Kintai Bridge]] officially complete in Japan on October 3]] * [[July 6]] – French troops conquer [[Maastricht]]. * [[July 11]] – The [[Netherlands]] and [[Denmark-Norway]] sign a defense treaty. * [[July 24]] – [[Edmund Halley]] enters [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], as an undergraduate. * [[August 8]] – In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of [[New York City|New York]]. * [[August 9]] – 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]] – [[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]] – [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]], Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant. * [[September 12]] – [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]] occupies [[Siege of Naarden (1673)|Naarden]], Netherlands. === October–December === * [[October 3]] – [[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]] – King [[Charles II of England]] removes [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], from his position as Lord Chancellor. * [[November 11]] – [[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]] – Dutch troops commanded by [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]] and [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]] conquer [[Bonn]]. * [[November 14]] – [[Christopher Wren]] is knighted in England. * [[November 23]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – 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]] – 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. </onlyinclude> == Births == [[File:Louis de Montfort.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Louis de Montfort]]]] * [[January 31]] – [[St. Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort]], French missionary priest (d. [[1716]]) * [[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 informer (d. [[1726]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Johann Konrad Dippel]], German alchemist (d. [[1734]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Richard Mead]], English physician (d. [[1754]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Louise Élisabeth de Joybert]], politically active Canadian governors' wife (d. [[1740]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Dimitrie Cantemir]], Moldavian linguist and scholar (d. [[1723]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Ahmed III]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1736]]) == Deaths == [[File:Molière - Nicolas Mignard (1658).jpg|110px|thumb|[[Molière]]]] [[File:Margbig.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne|Margaret Cavendish]]]] * [[January 11]] – [[Bartholomew Mastrius]], Italian theologian (b. [[1602]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Mary Carleton]], Englishwoman who used false identities (b. [[1642]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Jérôme Lalemant]], French Jesuit priest and missionary to Canada (b. [[1593]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Kaspar Förster]], German singer and composer (b. [[1616]]) * [[February 12]], – [[Johann Philipp von Schönborn]], Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1647– (b. [[1605]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Molière]], French writer and actor (b. [[1622]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Anna Magdalene of Hanau]], German countess (b. [[1600]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Isaack Luttichuys]], Dutch Golden Age painter (b. [[1616]]) * [[March 12]] – [[Margaret Theresa of Spain]] (b. [[1651]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Salvator Rosa]], Italian painter and poet (b. [[1615]]) * [[March 20]] ** [[Anna Margareta von Haugwitz]], Swedish countess (b. [[1622]]) ** [[Augustyn Kordecki]], Polish prior (b. [[1603]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Ignace-Gaston Pardies]], French physicist (b. [[1636]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1606]]) * [[May 6]] – [[Werner Rolfinck]], German physician, chemist, botanist, philosopher (b. [[1599]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux]], French poet (b. [[1599]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Henry Hungerford]], English politician (b. [[1611]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Sir Edward Bagot, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1616]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons]], Italian noble (b. [[1635]]) * [[June 18]] – [[Jeanne Mance]], French Canadian settler (b. [[1606]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Johan Schatter]], Dutch member of the [[Haarlem schutterij]] (b. [[1594]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan]], French soldier (b. [[1611]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Robert Moray]], English Freemason (b. [[1608]] or [[1609]]) * [[July 15]] – [[Helena Fourment]], Dutch model, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens (b. [[1614]]) * [[August 17]] – [[Regnier de Graaf]], Dutch physician and anatomist (b. [[1641]]) * [[August 21]] ** [[Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford]], English soldier (b. c. [[1599]]) ** [[Daniel Pawłowski]], Polish writer (b. [[1627]]) ** [[Isaac Sweers]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1622]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Bartram de Fouchier]], Dutch painter (b. [[1609]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Jan Thomas van Ieperen]], Flemish engraver and painter (b. [[1617]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Lorenzo Imperiali]], Italian cardinal (b. [[1612]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Francesco Grue]], Italian artist (b. [[1618]]) * [[October 13]] – [[Christoffer Gabel]], Danish statesman (b. [[1617]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh]], English statesman (b. [[1630]]) * [[November 6]] – [[Robert Harley (died 1673)|Robert Harley]], English politician (b. [[1626]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki]], King of Poland (b. [[1640]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Thomas Wendy (MP)|Thomas Wendy]], English politician (b. [[1614]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche]], French nobleman (b. [[1637]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Margaret Cavendish]], English writer (b. [[1623]]) * [[December 21]] – [[Joan Blaeu]], Dutch cartographer (b. [[1596]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Manuel da Câmara III]], Portuguese noble (b. [[1630]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Oliver St John]], English statesman and judge (b. c. [[1598]]) == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1673}} [[Category:1673| ]]
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