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

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened on 24 May 1683 as the world's first university art museum.

The Ashmolean Museum was completed in 1683, and is considered by some to be the first truly public museum in Europe.

Built in 1683 to house Elias Ashmole's collection, the museum building became known as the Old Ashmolean Building ( to distinguish it from the newer Ashmolean Museum building where the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology moved in 1894 ) and was the world's first purpose-built museum building ; it was also open to the public.

* The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford — opened 1683, online 21 August 1995-Located in one of the earliest purpose-built museum buildings in the world, the Museum was able to initiate a website relatively early because of the advantageous networking facilities and expertise available in their university environment.

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

His early drawings in a sketch-book, containing sketches and notes some dated 1680 and 1683, of buildings in Nottingham, Coventry, Warwick, Bath, Bristol, Oxford and Northampton.

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).

John Owen ( 1616 – 24 August 1683 ) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

Having studied at Frankfurt ( Oder ) and at Oxford, Jablonski entered upon his career as a preacher at Magdeburg in 1683, and then from 1686 to 1691 he was the head of the Brethren college at Polish Leszno (), a position which had been filled by his grandfather.

Sir William Scroggs ( c. 1623 – 25 October 1683 ), Lord Chief Justice of England, was the son of an Oxford landowner ; an account of him being the son of a butcher of sufficient means to give his son a university education is merely a rumour.

Educated at St John's College, Oxford, Hugh Speke joined the Green Ribbon Club, and in 1683 he was put in prison for asserting that Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex, another of Monmouth's supporters, had been murdered by the friends of James, Duke of York.

The University of Oxford in convocation ( 21 July 1683 ) condemned the proposition ' that the duty of not offending a weak brother is inconsistent with all human authority of making laws concerning indifferent things ,' and ordered Whitby's book to be burned by the university marshal in the schools quadrangle.

His education started at Eton where he studied from 1683 to 1687 and entered Oxford University in 1700.

* Sir Sackville Crowe of England ( 1611 ?– 1683?

When the Duke of York ( who became King James II of England ) established the first twelve counties of New York in 1683, present-day Rockland County was part of Orange County.

In July 1683 he was sent to the Continent to conduct Prince George of Denmark to England for his arranged marriage to the 18-year-old Princess Anne, the Duke of York's younger daughter.

The Duke of York returned to England after the religious tension had eased, and Sarah was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Anne after the latter's marriage in 1683.

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.

Ferguson was deeply implicated in the Rye House Plot, although he asserted that he had frustrated both this and a subsequent attempt to assassinate the king, and he fled to the Netherlands with Shaftesbury in 1682, returning to England early in 1683.

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.

Benjamin Rush's great-great-grandfather, John Rush, came to America with his wife, Susannah ( Lucas ) Rush from England in 1683.

The Duke also holds the two subsidiary titles of the attainted Dukedom of Monmouth, namely Earl of Doncaster ( 1663 ) and Baron Scott of Tindale ( 1663 ) ( both in the Peerage of England ), and several subsidiary titles associated with the Dukedom of Queensberry, namely Marquess of Dumfriesshire ( 1683 ), Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar ( 1682 ), Viscount of Nith, Tortholwald and Ross ( 1682 ) and Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock ( 1682 ) ( all in the Peerage of Scotland ).

Uncas and Miantonomoh. Uncas ( c. 1588 – c. 1683 ) was a sachem of the Mohegan who through his alliance with the English colonists in New England against other Indian tribes made the Mohegan the leading regional Indian tribe in lower Connecticut.

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.

Category: 1683 in England

Gauger's book on his innovative fireplace designs was translated into English – Fires Improv'd: Being a New Method of Building Chimneys, So as to Prevent their Smoaking ( 1715 ) – by a French immigrant to England, Jean Théophile Desaguliers ( 1683 – 1744 ).

In 1683 he was created Baron Guilford, of Guilford ( now spelled Guildford ) in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of England.

The hospital ship Unity sailed for England on October 18, 1683 with 114 invalid soldiers and 104 women and children.

Much of The Baroque Cycle concerns Jack's adventures in ( among other ports-of-call ) England, France, Germany, Austria, The Barbary Coast, Egypt, India, Japan, the Philippines, and Mexico between the years 1683 and 1714.

Richard Sterne ( c. 1596 – 1683 ) was a Church of England priest, Archbishop of York from 1664 to 1683.

Robert Bertie ( b. 6 February 1683, c. 14 Feb 1683 St Martin In The Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England d. young )

He was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth ( Merrill ) Pierce as well as a direct descendant of Thomas Pierce ( 1618 – 1683 ), the grandson of Sir Richard Carew, who was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He was born into a Huguenot ( Protestant ) family and fled to England not at the age of 11 ( 1694 ) but as an infant ( 1683 ) to escape the consequences of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

* The Jamaica Act of 1683 is passed by the Parliament of England prohibiting trade with pirates.