1673

Years:
1670 1671 1672 - 1673 - 1674 1675 1676

Decades:
1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1673 by topic:
Arts and Science
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

Events

January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation
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.
November 11- near Chocim (also spelled Khotinin the Ukraine, Lithuanian and Polish military units defeat the Turkish army. In this battle rockets of Kazimieras Simonavičius were successfully used.

The English Test Act was passed. It disallowed Catholics from holding high public office.
France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
Christopher Wren knighted.
French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas
Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermione
The Dutch retake New York
Chelsea Physic Garden, second oldest botanic garden in England, founded by the Society of Apothecaries for the study of medicinal and other plants.
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.