* 1613 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist ( d. 1683 )

* 1593 – Izaak Walton, English author ( d. 1683 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer ( d. 1738 )

* 1643 – Afonso VI of Portugal ( d. 1683 )

* Afonso VI of Portugal-( 1656 – 1683 )

* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist ( d. 1729 )

** Afonso VI ( 1656 – 1683 )

** Pedro II ( 1683 – 1706 )

* 1683 – Izaak Walton, English writer ( b. 1593 )

:* Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland ( née Lady Anne Churchill ; 1683 – 1716 ), second daughter of the 1st Duke

* 1609 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Conyers Middleton, English minister ( d. 1750 )

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

* 1612 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter ( d. 1754 )

* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

# 1683 – 1685 James Stuart, Duke of York

The War of the Reunions broke out ( 1683 – 1684 ), and again Spain, with its ally the Holy Roman Empire, was easily defeated.

* 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.

* 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

Although after the Austro-Ottoman war ( 1683 – 1697 ) and before the treaty of Karlowitz ( 1699 ) most parts of Banat were temporarily controlled by the forces of Prince Eugene of Savoy ; in consequence of the treaty, the Ottoman sovereignty was recognized over the region with the fort of Temeşvar.

He first saw action against the Ottoman Turks at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent War of the Holy League, before serving in the Nine Years ' War, fighting alongside his cousin, the Duke of Savoy.

This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.

In 1683, George and his brother, Frederick Augustus, served in the Great Turkish War at the Battle of Vienna, and Sophia Dorothea bore George a son, George Augustus.

During his reign the Great Turkish War, which had started in 1683, was still going on.

During the Great War ( 1683 – 90 ) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League — created with the sponsorship of the Pope and including Austria, Poland and Venice — these three powers as means of divide and conquer strategy, incited including Serbs to rebel against the Ottoman authorities and soon uprisings and terrorism spread throughout the western Balkans: from Montenegro and the Dalmatian Coast to the Danube basin and Old Serbia ( Macedonia, Raška, Kosovo and Metohija ).

Using a combination of aggression, annexation, and quasi-legal maneuvers, Louis XIV immediately set about extending his gains in order to stabilize and strengthen France's frontiers, culminating in the brief War of the Reunions ( 1683 – 84 ).

Thereafter, 150 years of bitter military tension and reciprocal attacks ensued, culminating in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the start of the Great Turkish War by European powers to remove the Ottoman presence.

After the Ottoman army was repelled at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Great Turkish War ended with much of the former Croatian lands under Habsburg control.

In recognition for his services, the Spanish Crown, under the order of King Philip V ( 1683 – 1746 ), awarded Miguel Henriquez with " La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie " ( The Gold Medal of the Royal Effigy ) in 1713 and named him Capitán de Mar y Guerra y Armador de Corsos, loosely translated as Captain of the Seas and War and chief provider to the crown corsairs.

The Battle of Slankamen was the last battle in the Great Turkish War ( 1683 – 1697 ) that could have turned the war in favour of the Ottomans.

The Great Turkish War started in 1683, with a grand invasion force of 140, 000 men marching on Vienna, supported by Hungarian noblemen rebelling against Habsburg rule.

The War of the Reunions ( 1683 – 84 ) was a short conflict between France and Spain and its allies.

Kosovo was taken temporarily by the Austrian forces during the War of 1683 – 1699 with help of Serbs but were defeated and retreated shortly thereafter.

In 1689 Kosovo was greatly disrupted by the Great Turkish War ( 1683 – 1699 ), in one of the pivotal events in Serbian national mythology.

* George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich ( 1585 – 1683 ), prominent Royalist in the English Civil War

He signed the sejm's election document of Jan Sobieski as King of Poland and participated in the Vienna expedition in 1683 during Great Turkish War.

In 1683, Blathwayt obtained by purchase the office of Secretary at War.

Whichever way one looks at it, whether it is seen as a major victory of Christian defenders over Islamic aggressors, or a bloody, yet minor combat between neighbouring provinces, the Battle of Sisak was the prelude to the long Second Ottoman-Habsburg War, and both empires experienced six more of such wars until 1791: 1592 – 1606, 1660 – 1664, 1683 – 1699, 1716 – 1718, 1737 – 1739 and 1788 – 1791.

Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg ( 12 January 1638 – 4 January 1701 ) was the army commander of Vienna during the second siege of Vienna in 1683, imperial general during the Great Turkish War and President of the Hofkriegsrat.

Shortly thereafter, other rulers in Europe were tied up in wars ( begun by France or its Ottoman ally ) or in domestic struggles ( Great Turkish War 1683 – 1699, War of the Reunions 1683 – 1684, Glorious Revolution 1688, War of the Grand Alliance 1688 – 97 ).