1673
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| Years: 1670 1671 1672 - 1673 - 1674 1675 1676 | |
| Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- The English Test Act was passed. It disallowed Catholics from holding high public office.
- France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
- 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-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
- Christopher Wren knighted.
- French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas
- The Kabuki actor Sannjuro Ichikawa, aged 13, invents the Aragato style, which features the Superman war-god.
- Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermione
- 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.
- Mitsui family's trading and banking house is founded in Japan.
- University of Innsbruck founded
- Stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) discovered.
- Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his "Zhitie" (Life) as the first Russian autobiography.
- On November 11, 1673, near Chocim (also spelled Khotinin the Ukraine, Lithuanian and Polish military units defeated the Turkish army. In this battle rockets of Kazimieras Simonavičius were successfully used.
Births
- April 27 - Claude Gillot, French artist (d. 1722)
- July 20 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (d. 1747)
- December 30 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
Deaths
- February 17 - Molière, French writer and actor (b. 1622)
- March 15 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (b. 1615)
- December 15 - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1623)af:1673
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