This article is about the year 1673.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1640s 1650s 1660s – 1670s – 1680s 1690s 1700s |
Years: | 1670 1671 1672 – 1673 – 1674 1675 1676 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1673 MDCLXXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2426 |
Armenian calendar | 1122 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6423 |
Bahá'í calendar | -171–-170 |
Bengali calendar | 1080 |
Berber calendar | 2623 |
English Regnal year | 24 Cha. 2 – 25 Cha. 2 |
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 | |
- Vikram Samvat | 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) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 4006 |
Minguo calendar | 239 before ROC 民前239年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2216 |
Year 1673 (MDCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- 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 removes Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, from his position as Lord Chancellor.
- 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.
- November 14 – Christopher Wren is knighted.
Date unknown
- France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
- 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.
- The Imaginary Invalid (written by Molière) is first performed in France.
Births
- January 31 – St. Louis Marie 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 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)
- date unknown – Mir Wais Khan Hotaki, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1715)
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)