* 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.

** Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician ( b. 1683 )

Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were killed or forced into exile.

A plaque on the wall of Barclays Bank in the Market Place commemorates Christopher Layer ( born 1683 ), who was a militant Jacobite and supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the ' Young Pretender '.

The most famous historical instance of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London by Charles II in 1683.

His successor was Charles de La Roche-Courbon, comte de Blénac, who served for the first time from 1677 to 1683.

He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676, curate and lecturer at St. Margaret's, Westminster, in 1679, canon of Windsor in 1681, dean of Westminster in 1683 and Bishop of Rochester in 1684.

Born in Versailles in 1663 and trained at the Paris Academy under Charles Le Brun, he came to England in 1683, where he first worked with Antonio Verrio, and then on his own.

From 1683 on, it reached its greatest power under the directorship of Charles Le Brun with its hierarchy of members and strict system of education.

It is believed that Queens, a borough of New York City, was named after Catherine of Braganza, since she was queen when Queens County was established in 1683, alongside Kings County ( Brooklyn, originally named after her husband, King Charles II ), and Richmond County ( Staten Island, named after his illegitimate son, the 1st Duke of Richmond ).

With the fall of Courtrai in early November 1683, followed by Dixmude in December and Luxembourg in June 1684, Charles II was compelled to accept Louis XIV's peace deal.

Algernon Sidney or Sydney ( 14 or 15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683 ) was an English politician, republican political theorist, colonel, and opponent of King Charles II of England, who became involved in a plot against the King and was executed for treason.

( 1600 – 1683 ), a member of parliament under Charles I, and another son was Sir William Monson ( c. 1607-1678 ), who was created an Irish peer as Viscount Monson of Castlemaine in 1628.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC ( 22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683 ), known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1631, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1631 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.

* Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton ( 1683 – 1757 ), only son of the 1st Duke

The town spreads from Haine Road in the west to Kingsgate in the north ( named after the landing of King Charles II in 1683 ) and to Dumpton in the south ( named after the yeoman Dudeman who farmed there in the 13th century ).

Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, 4th Earl of Manchester ( c. 1656 – 20 January 1722 ), son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683.

The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother ( and heir to the throne ) James, Duke of York.

Richard Greaves cites as proof that there was a plot in 1683, the 1685 armed rebellions of the fugitive Earl of Argyll and Charles ' Protestant illegitimate son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth ( Greaves 1992 ).

* Rochefort Charles D. ( 1605 – 1683 ) Histoire naturelle et morale des illes Antilles de l ' Amerique.

He was once more residing at Winchester in 1683 when Charles came to the city with his slightly disreputable court.

During the Tory reaction under Charles II he was one of the sheriffs forced on the city of London in 1683 with an express view to securing verdicts for the crown in state trials.

* Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, 3rd Earl of Arlington ( 1683 – 1757 )

The practice started in 1683 during the reign of Charles II and continued until abolished on 1 November 1871, as part of the Cardwell Reforms.