What Happened in 1673

Major Events

  • Jan 1 Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston
  • Jan 13 Jean Racine's play "Mithridate" premieres in Paris
  • Jan 22 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
  • Feb 20 1st recorded wine auction held in London
  • Feb 21 Michiel de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet
  • Mar 18 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
  • Mar 29 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions
  • May 17 Frenchmen Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit, set out from the Saint-Ignace mission on an expedition to explore the Mississippi river (reach border of Louisiana and Arkansas)
  • Jun 6 France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty
  • Jun 6 Treaty of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem, Elector of Brandenburg
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Born in 1673

  • Jan 6 James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English aristocrat, eponym of Handel's Chandos Anthems, born in Herefordshire, England (d. 1744)
  • Jan 31 Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint who preached Mariology (Secret of the Rosary; True Devotion to Mary), born in Montfort-sur-Meu, France (d. 1716)
  • Feb 1 Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer, born in Venice, Republic of Venice (d. 1747)
  • Feb 6 Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, German organist, composer, and Kapellmeister (Marienkirche (Danzig), 1715-31), baptized in Immelborn, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1731)
  • Mar 19 Pedro Vaz Rego, Portuguese composer and poet, born in Campo Maior, Portugal (d. 1736)

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World Leaders in 1673