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

In June 1673, Louis XIV laid siege to the city because French battle supply lines were being threatened.

As early as 1673, Louis had by his own power extended the right of the régale over the provinces of Languedoc, Guyenne, Provence, and Dauphiné, where it had previously not been exercised.

* June 16 – Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan ; she built the Paris Palais Bourbon where she died ( b. 1673 )

In 1673, an expedition headed by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, though possibly not the first Europeans to visit the area, was the first recorded to have crossed the Chicago Portage and travelled along the Chicago River.

Although Louis took Maastricht and William's attack against Charleroi failed, Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the Anglo-French fleet three times, forcing Charles to end England's involvement by the Treaty of Westminster ; after 1673, France slowly withdrew from Dutch territory ( with the exception of Maastricht ), while making gains elsewhere.

On March 25, 1691, James Louis married Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia of Neuburg ( 1673 – 1722 ), the daughter of the Palatine elector Philip William.

The new Duchess of Orléans, who had converted from Protestantism to Catholicism just before entering France, was popular at court upon her arrival in 1671 and quickly became the mother of Alexandre Louis d ' Orléans in 1673, another short-lived Duke of Valois.

The first European explorers to visit the area, Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet, arrived in 1673, where they encountered the fearsome painting of the Piasa bird.

In 1673, the governor of New France ( Quebec, the French settlement started by Samuel de Champlain ), sent Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a French Canadian fur trader, along with seven other explorers, on a mission to find the Northwest Passage.

The first visitors to present-day Hodgkins, explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, paddled down the Des Plaines River in 1673, passing through the area, making their camp in present-day Summit.

The origin of the name, which was what it would be called or referred to in popular vernacular, was most likely a corruption of the name of French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet, who in 1673, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River and camped on a huge mound, a few miles ( a unit of distance ) south of present-day Joliet.

The city, which is located on the Mississippi River, is named after Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, who along with Louis Joliet discovered the Mississippi River just southeast of the city on June 17, 1673.

Since Tipton County is one of the five counties of the State of Tennessee that is located along the Mississippi River, this area was first explored by white people during the noted expedition of the French Canadians Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet in 1673.

Portage was named for the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a portage between the Fox River and the Wisconsin River, which was recognized by Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet during their discovery of a route to the Mississippi River in 1673.

Explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet passed through the area in 1673, following the canoe route to the Mississippi.

In 1673, Rupert was urged by Charles Louis to return home, marry and establish an heir to the Palatinate, as it appeared likely that Charles Louis's own son would not survive infancy.

Her parents were James Louis Sobieski ( 1667 – 1737 ), the eldest son of King John III, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg ( 1673 – 1722 ).

* Louise-Françoise de Bourbon ( 1673 – 1743 ) illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his most famous mistress Madame de Montespan.

In May 1673, Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and French trader Louis Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River in canoes along the area that would later become the state of Missouri.

It was not until 1673 that Louis Jolliet and Père ( Father ) Jacques Marquette explored the upper Mississippi Valley, including the area where it was joined by the Ohio River.

On July 12, 1673, the Governor of New France, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, arrived at the mouth of the Cataraqui River to meet with leaders of the Five Nations of the Iroquois to encourage them to trade with the French.

The King's Daughters () is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by Louis XIV.

The city was finally conquered by France under King Louis XIV in 1673 and officially ceded by the 1679 Treaties of Nijmegen.

In 1673, Louis XIV bestowed the ( now non-sovereign ) principality on Louis of Mailly-Nesles, marquis of Nesles ( 1689 – 1764 ), a very remote descendant of the original princes of Orange, through the marriage of the marquis to a descendant of the Chalons & des Baux.

Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d ' Artagnan () ( c. 1611 – 25 June 1673 ) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.

This U-turn of many Imperial States was made vivid when, in 1673, at the beginning of the second war of Louis XIV, they declared an imperial war on France.

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.

In 1673, a French ecclesiastical mission arrived at the Siamese court with letters from Pope Clement IX and King Louis XIV of France.

He was also a descendant of Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Montespan, his mother being a great-granddaughter of Mademoiselle de Blois ( 1677 – 1749 ) and his father a great-grandson of Mademoiselle de Nantes ( 1673 – 1743 ), the two surviving daughters of Madame de Montespan.

In 1673 King Louis XIV had the fortifications as well as the remains of the kings palace razed in order to extinguish German traditions.

In 1673, when he was aged 24, he entered the French Army of Louis XIV and served under the famous Marshal de Turenne before returning to Scotland sometime around 1675.

The kings of the Ancien Régime and the July Monarchy used the title Empereur de France in diplomatic correspondence and treaties with the Ottoman emperor from at least 1673 onwards.

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

Most of Provence remained strongly Catholic, with only one enclave of Protestants, the principality of Orange, Vaucluse, an enclave ruled by Prince William of the House of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands, which was created in 1544 and was not incorporated into France until 1673.

* Wars to contain the expansionist policies of France in various coalitions after the Glorious Revolution, mostly including England, burdened the republic with huge debts, although little of the fighting after 1673 took place on its own territory.

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.

In 1673, Father Marquette and Jolliet explored the area and claimed it for France.

Research by the historical demographer Yves Landry reveals that there were in total about 770 to 850 Filles du Roi established themselves in New France between 1663 and 1673.

In June 1673, Frederick William abandoned the Dutch alliance and concluded a subsidy treaty with France, who in return withdrew from Cleves.

The first documented exploration of the Wisconsin River by Europeans took place in 1673, when Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet of France canoed from Lake Michigan up the Fox River until reaching the present-day site of Portage in early June.

The d ' Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer d ' Artagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673.

* Louis d ' Aubusson, Duke of la Feuillade ( 1673 – 1725 ), Marshal of France in 1724

* 1644 Jeanne Mance ( Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673 ) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.

First explored in 1673 by the expedition of Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette, the area was soon claimed by France and became part of Louisiana, together with Lower Louisiana.