1673
Years:
1670 1671 1672 - 1673 - 1674 1675 1676Decades:
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16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1673 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music
Events
- 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 - Trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
- November 11- near Chocim (also spelled Khotinin the Ukraine, Lithuanian and Polish military units defeat the Turkish army. In this battle rockets of Kazimieras Simonavičius were successfully used.
- The English Test Act was passed. It disallowed Catholics from holding high public office.
- France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
- Christopher Wren knighted.
- French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas
- Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermione
- The Dutch retake New York
- William of Orange saves Amsterdam and the province of Holland from the French by opening the Sluice gates and flooding the country.
- Mitsui family's trading and banking house is founded in Japan.
- University of Innsbruck founded
- Stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) 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)
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
- October 13 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
- October 17 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
- November 10 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
- December 15 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
- December 31 - Oliver St John, English statesman and judge