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Events from the year 1683 in England.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 January – Charles II gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the King's Evil" ceremony. [1]
- 22 March – great fire in Newmarket, Suffolk.
- 24 May – the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, opens as the world's first purpose-built university museum. [2]
- 12 June – the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II is discovered; [3] at least 11 people will be executed for their connections with it.
- 21 July – Lord Russell is beheaded by Jack Ketch at Lincoln's Inn Fields for his part in the Rye House Plot. [4] [5]
- 28 July – The Lady Anne, the King's niece and fourth in line of succession, marries Prince George of Denmark in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, London.
- 12 December – start of exceptional cold spell. The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held (pictured).
Undated
- Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain. [3]
- The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore, probably by Alexander Oldys, is published.
Births
- 1 March – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (died 1737)
- 3 April – Mark Catesby, naturalist (died 1749)
- 25 October – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, politician (died 1757)
- 10 November – King George II of Great Britain (died 1760)
- 27 December – Conyers Middleton, minister (died 1750)
Deaths
- 15 January – Philip Warwick, writer and politician (born 1609)
- 21 January – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (born 1621)
- 19 March – Thomas Killigrew, dramatist (born 1612)
- 13 July – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, statesman, implicated in Rye House Plot, suicide (born 1631)
- 18 August – Charles Hart, actor (born 1625)
- 21 July – William Russell, Lord Russell, politician, executed (born 1639)
- 24 August – John Owen, non-conformist theologian (born 1616)
- 25 October – William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (born c. 1623)
- 7 December
- John Oldham, poet (born 1653)
- Algernon Sidney, parliamentarian and republican, executed (born 1623)
- 15 December – Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593)
- John Hingston, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612)
References
- ^ ""January 9th", Chambers' Book of Days". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ^ "Ashmolean Museum". The Invention of Museum Anthropology. Pitt Rivers. 2012. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ a b Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1683". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ Fiorillo, Juré (2010-01-01). Great Bastards of History: True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness. Fair Winds. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-59233-401-8. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
- ^ Ketch, Jack. The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire.