1673

Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s

Years: 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 - 1673 - 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678

• The English Test Act was passed. It disallowed Catholics from holding high public office.
• March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers.
• May 17 - Trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorerJacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
• Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet discover the Mississippi River
• The Kabuki actor Sannjuro Ichikawa, aged 13, invents the Aragato style, which features the Superman war-god.
• Jean Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermoine
• The Dutch retake New York
• William of Orange saves Amsterdam and the province of Holland from the French by opening the Sluice gates and flooding the country.

• February 17 - Molière, french theatre writer, director and actor, master of satire
• 15 March - Salvator Rosa, painter\n