* 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 – Richard Mead, English physician ( d. 1754 )

* 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.

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

He was not successful in gaining a passage to the sea at the expense of Genoa ( Second Genoese-Savoyard War, 1672 – 1673 ), and had difficulties in retaining the influence of his powerful neighbour France.

* Second Genoese-Savoyard War ( 1672 – 1673 )

His first production, Eclogæ Sacræ ( Paris, 1659 ), won him the title of the Second Theocritus, and his poem on gardens, Hortorum libri IV ( Paris, 1665 ), twice translated into English ( London, 1673 ; Cambridge, 1706 ), placed him among the foremost Latin versifiers.

Image: Battle of Chocim 1673. jpg | Battle of Khotyn on 11 November 1673.

* 1673 Battle of Texel-During the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

In 1673 he was again engaged in the Low Countries, and in 1674 he fought his last great battle, the Battle of Seneffe, against the Prince of Orange ( afterwards William III of England ).

The naval Battle of Texel or Battle of Kijkduin took place on 21 August 1673 ( 11 August O. S.

The British are sometimes credited with pioneering the tactic of " breaking the line " in the battle ; this is however erroneous as Dano – Norwegian admiral Niels Juel did this in the Battle of Køge Bay more than a hundred years earlier and even earlier the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter used it for the first time in the last day of the Four Days ' Battle in 1666 ( and again in the Battle of Schooneveld and the Battle of Texel of 1673 )!

Whilst visiting France in 1672 he rejected the liberal offers made by Louis XIV to induce him to enter the service of France, and returning to England he added to his high reputation by his conduct during the Battle of Texel in August 1673.

At 25, he joined the French Royal Navy and started an active career, fighting the 1673 campaign of the Franco-Dutch War on the Sans-Pareil, at the Battle of Agosta where he was in command of the Syrene, and later in command of the Sceptre.

He distinguished himself at twenty in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War and after the bloody Battle of Seneffe a year later he was promoted on the field to mestre de camp ( colonel ) of a cavalry regiment.

File: Van de Velde, Battle of Schooneveld. jpg | The Battle of Schooneveld ( 1674 ), commemorating the Battle of Schooneveld on 7 June 1673

The fleets met again at the Battle of Schooneveld in 1673.

He was participant of Battle of Khotyn ( 1673 ).

On 6 October 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he was made a Rear-Admiral, after having distinguished himself as captain of the Wassenaer in the Battle of Solebay and captain of the Delft during the Battle of Schooneveld and the Battle of Texel.

In 1673, the Polish hussars again fought a major battle on this site ( second Battle of Khotyn ).

During his short second reign, the animosity of the Cantacuzinos exploded violently, and after the defeat of the Turks at Khotyn in 1673, Grigore was forced to flee to Constantinople ; the hostility of his opponents lost his throne and he will die in Constantinople in 1674.

When the news about the defeat and treaty terms reached Warsaw, the Sejm refused to pay the tribute and organized a large army under Jan Sobieski ; subsequently, the Poles won the battle of Khotyn ( 1673 ).

The Turks suffered two decisive defeats at Khotyn in the 17th century, at the hands of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: in 1621 by Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and again in 1673 by Jan III Sobieski ( see: Battles below ).

* Battle of Khotyn ( 1673 )