History
1683
General
Population: 606 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Edmonde Boursaylt (satire), Matthew Hale (providing for poor), William Penn (Philadelphia),
Sir William Petty (London growth)
Art includes Godfrey Kneller "Sir Charles Cotterell"
- Exploration: English navigator William Dampier begins voyage around the world
- Science: Newton explains mathematical theory on tides under gravitational attraction of sun moon and earth
- Deaths: Biographer Izaak Walton, Religious leader Roger Williams, Artist Jan Davids de Heem, Economist Jean Baptiste Colbert,
Artist Pieter de Hooch, Poet Daniel Caspar von Lohenstrin, Alfonso VI of Portugal, Poet Elijah Fenton, Architect Fuarino Fuarini
Asia
- China: Dutch traders admitted to Canton
- Formosa: Formosa (Taiwan) becomes Chinese territory as Mancus conquer and Cheng Chin surrenders
Europe
- General: Polish-Austrian alliance against Turks
League of the Hague – Emperor Leopold I and Charles II of Spain join Dutch-Swedish alliance against France
- England: Rye House Plot to murder Charles II discovered
Sir Christopher Wren creates St. James's in London
Henry Purcell made court composer to Charles II
Wild boars extinct in Britain
Oxford Museum founded, opens Ashmolean Museum – first public museum allows any to enter for a fee horrifying scholars
- France: Spain declares war
Charles Lebrun made director of Academie royale
- Holy Roman Empire: Ottoman Turks besiege Vienna but are beaten off by John Sobieski, Charles Duke of Lorraine, and Polish and German armies
First coffeehouses in Vienna
- Portugal: Death of Alfonso VI King of Portugal – brother Peter II rules
- Spain: War declared on France
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Turks attempt siege of Vienna - ended by Poland and Duke of Lorraine
East
- New York: Voting allowed
- Pennsylvania: First German immigrants
Peace treaty between William Penn and N American Indians
William Penn writes description of Pennsylvania