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1683

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Centuries: 16th century · 17th century · 18th century
Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s
Years: 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686
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1683 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1683
MDCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita 2436
Armenian calendar 1132
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԲ
Chinese calendar 4379 – 4380
壬戌 – 癸亥
Ethiopian calendar 1675 – 1676
Hebrew calendar 5443 – 5444
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1738 – 1739
- Shaka Samvat 1605 – 1606
- Kali Yuga 4784 – 4785
Iranian calendar 1061 – 1062
Islamic calendar 1094 – 1095

1683 (MDCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

  • June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum.
  • June 12 - The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England is discovered
  • November 1 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties
  • Thames River freezes
  • Dragonnades organized to harass Huguenots in France
  • Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain
  • A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken in at the Battle of Vienna on September 12 with the arrival of a force of 30,000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank. Considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes.
  • Fall of Kingdom of Tungning, Qing occupied present day-Kaohsiung of Taiwan and unified China.

Births

  • Furrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (died 1719)
  • February 28 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (died 1757)
  • March 1 - Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (died 1737)
  • April 3 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
  • June 23 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (died 1745)
  • September 25 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (died 1764)
  • October 25 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (died 1757)
  • November 10 - King George II of Great Britain (died 1760)
  • November 30 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (died 1744)
  • December 19 - King Philip V of Spain (died 1746)
  • December 27 - Conyers Middleton, English minister (died 1750)

Deaths

  • January 21 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (born 1621)
  • February 18 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (born 1620)
  • March 19 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (born 1612)
  • July 10 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (born 1610)
  • July 13 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (born 1631)
  • July 30 - Queen Marie-Thérèse, first wife of Louis XIV of France (born 1638)
  • August 18 - Chalres Hart, English actor (born 1625)
  • August 24 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (born 1616)
  • September 6 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (born 1619)
  • September 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (born 1643)
  • October 25 - William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (born c.1623)
  • December 7 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (born 1653)
  • December 7 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (born 1623)
  • December 15 - Izaak Walton, English writer (born 1593)

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