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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 ).

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 , Austria ns and German s 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 Boar s 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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