* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy ( d. 1726 )

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

* 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1742 )

* 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., American historian ( b. 1673 )

* 1673 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer ( b. 1623 )

* 1625 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1736 )

* 1616 – Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer ( d. 1673 )

* John Gordon ( 1673 – 1675 )

Further imprisonments came at London in 1654, Launceston in 1656, Lancaster in 1660, Leicester in 1662, Lancaster again and Scarborough in 1664 – 66 and Worcester in 1673 – 75.

The second Khoikoi-Dutch war ( 1673 – 1677 ) was a cattle raid.

* 1622 – Molière, French playwright ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.

* 1673 – Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer ( d. 1747 )

* 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist ( d. 1673 )

* 1617 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman ( d. 1673 )

* 1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English noble ( d. 1744 )

* 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

* 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army.

* 1606 – Jeanne Mance, French settler of New France ( d. 1673 )

In 1674 discontented settlers and troops seized Richard Keigwin ( 1673 – 1674 ), the next acting governor ; it was only the lucky arrival of an East India Company fleet under the command of Captain William Basse that freed Keigwin.

* February 16 – Richard Mead, English physician ( b. 1673 )

The cut, known as the Stamford Canal was the longest canal with locks in the country at the time, and trade thrived, for Richard Blome recorded the prosperous Stamford malt trade in 1673.

It includes some outstanding pieces by well-known artists, such as a bust of Baldwin Hamey Junior ( 1600 – 1676 ) by Edward Pierce and one of Richard Mead ( 1673 – 1754 ) by Louis François Roubiliac.

The title in the Peerage of Ireland was created again in 1673 for Richard Power, 6th Baron Power, the Anglo-Norman peer and Restoration politician, along with a large grant of land in County Waterford, at the other end of Ireland.

* Richard Power, 6th Baron Power ( created Earl of Tyrone and Viscount Decies in 1673 )

" It was omitted altogether from Richard Blome's gazetteer of market towns in 1673.

Richard Mead ( 11 August 1673 – 16 February 1754 ) was an English physician.

* Richard Mead ( 1673 – 1754 ), English physician

Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait ( 1588 – 4 May 1673 ) was an English poet.

Such dictionaries, often based on Harman ’ s, remained popular, including The Canting Academy, or Devils Cabinet opened, by Richard Head ( 1673 ), and BE's Dictionary of the Canting Crew ( 1699 ).

The word Unitarian had been circulating in private letters in England, in reference to imported copies of such publications as the Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians ( 1665 ), Henry Hedworth was the first to use the word " Unitarian " in print in English ( 1673 ), and the word first appears in a title in Stephen Nye's A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians ( 1687 ).

* July 9 – John Oldmixon, English historian ( b. 1673 )

** Henry Herbert, English official ( d. 1673 )

* August 1 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman ( d. 1673 )

* August 9 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts ( b. 1673 )

* Robert Walker ( c. 1597 – 1673 ), English merchant, politician and Royalist during the English Civil War

Laguna is attested in English by at least 1612, and had been Anglicized to " lagune " by 1673.

* Thomas Wharton ( anatomist ) ( 1614 – 1673 ), English anatomist

That New York City ( formerly New Amsterdam ) had been retaken by the Dutch in 1673 mattered little in financial respect, like the temporary loss of Saint Helena, but hurt the English reputation.

Arlington's former secretary, Pierre du Moulin, had after fleeing to the Republic begun to work for William ; in the summer of 1673 he exploited the fears of the English population by starting a propaganda campaign, using one of the Dutch main assets: the world's largest printing capacity.

Worcester was first settled by the English in 1673, along the Upper Boston Post Road.

First settled by English colonists in 1673, Deerfield was incorporated in 1677.

Wrentham was first settled by the English in 1660 and officially incorporated in 1673.

* Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1623 – 1673 ), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1623 – 15 December 1673 ) was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist.

The English plan for 1673 centred on first achieving naval dominance, followed by landing an army in Zeeland.

He was the fourth of five children born to Alice " Allie " Josephine Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane came to America in 1673, and her husband, Lewis M. Gray, a dentist.

Whether Wycherley's experiences as a naval officer, which he alludes to in his lines " On a Sea Fight which the Author was in betwixt the English and the Dutch ", occurred before or after the production of Love in a Wood is a point upon which opinions differ, but probably took place not only after the production of Love in a Wood but after the production of The Gentleman Dancing Master, in 1673.

Old corn laws were adjusted to the advantage of English farmers: the old restrictions on the exportation of wheat was gradually relaxed, exportation becoming fully free in 1670 and even subsidized with bounties after 1673.