1673

This article is about the year 1673.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1670 1671 1672 – 1673 – 1674 1675 1676

1673 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1673 in other calendars

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

June 7: First Battle of Schooneveld (by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1674).

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)