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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

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1683

January - June

★ 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 14 - A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken at the Battle of Vienna on September 12 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.

★ 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.

★ Fall of Kingdom of Tungning, Qing occupied present day-Kaohsiung of Taiwan.

Births

★ 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 11 - Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (died 1719)

★ 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)
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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)

★ March 29 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (born 1667)

★ 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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