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Year 1673 (MDCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1673

January - June

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

• 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 fires the Earl of Shaftesbury.
• November 11 - Near Chocim (also spelled Khotin) in the Ukraine, Polish and Lithuanian military units under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski defeat the Turkish army. 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.

Undated

• France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
• Christopher Wren is knighted.
• 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 University of Innsbruck is founded.
• 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.

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)
• Mir Wais Khan Hotaki, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1715)

See also Category: 1673 births.

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)

See also Category: 1673 deaths.

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