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Template:Year nav Template:C17YearInTopicX 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).

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)

See also Category: 1683 births.

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)

See also Category: 1683 deaths.

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