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What Happened in September 1683

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Historical Events

  • Sep 3 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
  • Sep 6 Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
  • Sep 9 Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald
  • Sep 12 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire
  • Sep 15 Germantown in Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families

Bacteria Discovered

Sep 17 Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria

Microbiologist and Naturalist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Jews Expelled from French America

Sep 24 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in the Americas

The Sun King of France Louis XIV

Events in 1683

Famous Birthdays

  • Sep 7 Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal, born in Linz, Austria (d. 1754)
  • Sep 25 Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (Traite), baptized in Dijon, France (d. 1764)
Born in 1683

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 5 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (First Minister of State, 1661-83; Minister of the Navy, 1689-83), dies at 64
  • Sep 9 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician and political theorist, beheaded for treason at 60
  • Sep 12 Afonso VI, mentally ill King of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40

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