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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s |
| Years: | 1680 1681 1682 - 1683 - 1684 1685 1686 |
| 1683 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1683 (MDCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1683
January - June
- April 10 - Charles V the Duke of Lorraine is appointed commander of the Imperial army.
- May 3 - Sultan Mehmed IV enters Belgrade.
- 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.
July - December
- July 8 - The Qing Dynasty Chinese admiral Shi Lang leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and the Pescadores, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.
- July 14 - A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna and starts to besiege the city.
- July 16 and July 17 - Battle of Penghu: Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of Zheng Keshuang in a decisive victory.
- September 12 - Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70,000 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).
- September 5 - The Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which is then incorporated into the Qing Empire.
- October 3 - Shi Lang reaches Taiwan and occupies present day Kaohsiung.
- October 6 - Germantown, Pennsylvania is founded (in 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day).
- November 1 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
- December - The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.
Undated
- Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1683 MDCLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2436 |
| Armenian calendar | 1132 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -161 – -160 |
| Berber calendar | 2633 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2227 |
| Burmese calendar | 1045 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7191 – 7192 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬戌年十二月初四日 (4319/4379-12-4) — to —
癸亥年十一月十四日(4320/4380-11-14) |
| Coptic calendar | 1399 – 1400 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1675 – 1676 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5443 – 5444 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1738 – 1739 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1605 – 1606 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4784 – 4785 |
| Holocene calendar | 11683 |
| Iranian calendar | 1061 – 1062 |
| Islamic calendar | 1094 – 1095 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenna 3 (天和3年) |
| Korean calendar | 4016 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2226 |
- February 28 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
- March 1 - Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
- April 3 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
- June 23 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
- September 11 - Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (d. 1719)
- September 25 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
- October 25 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
- November 10 - King George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
- November 30 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
- December 19 - King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
- December 27 - Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)
- See also Category: 1683 births.
Deaths
- January 21 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
- February 18 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- March 19 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
- March 29 - Yaoya Oshichi, young Japanese girl burned at the stake for arson (b. 1667)
- July 10 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- July 13 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
- July 30 - Queen Marie-Thérèse, first wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- August 18 - Chalres Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
- August 24 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
- September 6 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
- September 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
- October 25 - William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (b. c. 1623)
- December 7 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
- December 7 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)
- December 15 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
- See also Category: 1683 deaths.
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