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 in topic: | |
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)
Deaths
- February 17 – Molière, French writer and actor (b. 1622)
- March 15 – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (b. 1615)
Categories: 1673