1683

Year 1683 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - The opens as the world's first.
 * - The to assassinate  is discovered.

July - December

 * - The Chinese admiral  led 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan,  and sailed towards the, in modern-day  and the  in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.
 * - A 140,000-man force arrives at  in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken at the  on  with the arrival of a force of 70,000, ns and s under Polish-Lithuanian king , whose  turns their flank. Considered to be the turning point in the 's fortunes.
 * and -, the Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of  in a decisive victory.
 * - the Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which was then incorporated into the Qing Empire. Shi Lang reached Taiwan on October 3 and occupied present day.
 * - The crown colony of  is subdivided into 12.
 * December - The freezes, allowing a  to be held.

Undated

 * s are hunted to extinction in Britain.

Births

 * -, French scientist (died )
 * -, queen of (died )
 * -, English naturalist (died )
 * -, French orientalist (died )
 * -, Emperor (died )
 * -, French composer (died )
 * -, British politician (died )
 * - King (died )
 * -, Austrian field marshal (died )
 * - King (died )
 * -, English minister (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, British politician (born )
 * -, Dutch painter (born )
 * -, English dramatist (born )
 * -, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (born )
 * -, French historian (born )
 * -, English statesman (born )
 * - Queen, first wife of (born )
 * -, English actor (born )
 * -, English non-conformist theologian (born )
 * -, French minister of finance (born )
 * - King (born )
 * -, lord chief justice of England (born c.)
 * -, English poet (smallpox) (born )
 * -, English politician (born )
 * -, English writer (born )


 * See also .