1683 - Definition and Overview

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
• 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.

Births

• February 28 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, scientist (+ 1757).
• March 1 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen Consort of King George II of Great Britain
• September 25 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
• November 10 - King George II of Great Britain.
• December 19 - King Philip V of Spain

Deaths

• July 30 - Queen Marie-Thérèse, first wife of Louis XIV