1673
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.
Births April 27 - Claude Gillot, artist July 20 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
Deaths February 17 - Molière, French theatre writer, director and actor, master of satire March 15 - Salvator Rosa, painter
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