Historical Events for Year 1673
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Months in Year 1673: January February March May June July August September November
Events 1 - 24 of 24
Jan 1st - Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston
Jan 13th - Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
Jan 22nd - Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
Feb 20th - 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
Feb 21st - Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet
Mar 18th - Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
Mar 29th - Eng king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions
May 17th - Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
Jun 6th - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
Jun 12th - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
Jun 14th - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
Jun 16th - Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
Jul 6th - French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
Jul 11th - Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty
Jul 24th - Edmund Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
Aug 8th - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC
Aug 9th - Dutch under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
Aug 21st - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
Aug 30th - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
The Sun King Louis XIV
Sep 12th - Prince Willem III occupies Naarden
Nov 9th - British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury
Nov 11th - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
Nov 12th - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
Nov 13th - Prince Willem III/Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn
