1673

Years: 1670 1671 1672 - 1673 - 1674 1675 1676
Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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.