1683
| Years: 1680 1681 1682 - 1683 - 1684 1685 1686 | ||||||||
| Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s | ||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- 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
- September 7 - Polish-German troops arrive in Vienna to help the besieged
- September 12 - Battle of Vienna
- November 1 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties
- Thames River is frozen
- Dragonards organized to harass huguenots in France
- Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain
- A huge 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken in September 12 with the arrival of a force of 30,000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king John III, whose cavalry turns their flank. Considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes.
- Fall of Kingdom of Tungning, Qing occupied present day-Kaohsiung of Taiwan and unified China.
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Births
- Furrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor
- February 28 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
- March 1 - Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
- April 3 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
- June 23 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
- September 25 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
- October 25 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
- November 10 - King George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
- November 30 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
- December 19 - King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
- December 27 - Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)
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Deaths
- January 21 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
- February 18 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- March 19 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
- July 10 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- July 13 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
- July 30 - Queen Marie-Thérèse, first wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- August 18 - Chalres Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
- August 24 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
- September 6 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
- September 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
- October 25 - William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England
- December 7 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
- December 7 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)
- December 15 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
