* 1683 – Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.

* 1683 – The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan ( under the Kingdom of Tungning ) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.

Zheng's forces were later defeated by the Qing Dynasty in 1683.

In 1683, following a naval engagement with Admiral Shi Lang, one of Koxinga's father's trusted friends, Koxinga's grandson Zheng Keshuang submitted to Qing Dynasty control.

Taiwan was officially regarded by Qing Emperor Kangxi as " a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization " and did not appear on any map of the imperial domain until 1683.

From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures, north and south.

From 1683 to around 1760, the Qing government limited immigration to Taiwan.

After the Qing government defeated the Ming loyalist forces maintained by the Zheng family in 1683, parts of Taiwan became increasingly integrated into the Qing Empire.

From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures.

On the other hand, a number of supporters of Taiwan independence argue that Taiwan was only formally incorporated as a Chinese territory under the Qing Dynasty in 1683, and as a province in 1885.

Taiwan was first brought under the control of Zheng Chenggong, a Ming-loyalist, in 1662, before being incorporated by the Qing Dynasty in 1683.

It was an outlying prefecture of Fujian Province under the Manchu Qing government of China from 1683 until 1887, when it was officially made a separate province.

In 1683, following a naval engagement with Admiral Shi Lang, Koxinga's ( Cheng Ch ' eng Kung ) grandson Zheng Keshuang and ruler of Taiwan submitted to the Qing Dynasty ( then romanised as Ch ' ing Dynasty ).

Heilongjiang as an administrative entity was created in 1683, during the Kangxi era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the northwestern part of the Jilin province.

From the time China was brought under the rule of the Qing dynasty ( 1644 – 1683 ), the banner soldiers became more professional and bureaucratized.

The Zheng family of Tungning surrendered in October 1683 and Taiwan became part of the Qing Empire.

Taiwan was formally incorporated into the Qing Dynasty in 1683.

From 1683 to 1867 the Qing Dynasty Chinese government controlled the fort and during this time ( 1724 ) built a stone wall with four gates around it, of which only one ( main ) gate survives.

In 1683 following the Qing dynasty conquest of Taiwan the area was incorporated into Zhuluo County.

In 1683 after the Battle of Penghu, Qing troops landed in Taiwan, Zheng Keshuang gave in to the Qing Dynasty's demand of surrender, and his kingdom was incorporated into the Qing Empire as part of Fujian province, ending two decades of rule by the Zheng family.

He succeeded his father Zheng Jing in 1681 as third King of Tungning ( 東寧 ) and surrendered Taiwan to Qing Dynasty forces in 1683.

His fourth brother, Emmanuel, had died aged 14 in 1676 ; his third, Louis Julius ( already mentioned ) had died on active service in 1683, and his second brother, Philippe, died of smallpox in 1693.

In Rømer's position as royal mathematician, he introduced the first national system for weights and measures in Denmark on 1 May 1683.

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

Year 1683 ( MDCLXXXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Williams died between January and March 1683 and was buried on his own property.

Caroline was born on 1 March 1683 at Ansbach, the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach.

Denmark started colonies on St. Thomas in 1665 and St. John in 1683 ( though control of the latter was disputed with Great Britain until 1718 ), and purchased St. Croix from France in 1733.

In 1683 the Society of Suriname was set up, modelled on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to profit from the management and defence of the Dutch Republic's colony.

English colonists established counties in eastern present-day New York State in 1683 ; at the time, the territory of the present Madison County was considered part of Albany County, with the city of Albany located on the Hudson River.

Dover was founded as the court town for newly established Kent County in 1683 by William Penn, the proprietor of the territory generally known as the " Lower Counties on the Delaware.

A large religious meeting house, thought to have been Presbyterian, was demolished and its furniture burned on the Cornhill in 1683.

By 1683 he was already embarked on a military career, fighting in the defense of Vienna against the attempt of the Ottoman Empire to extend their possessions further into Europe.

Dukes county was thus established as Dukes County, New York, on November 1, 1683, and included all of Mayhew's lands-Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands.

The Battle of Vienna ( German: Schlacht am Kahlenberg, Polish: Bitwa pod Wiedniem or Odsiecz Wiedeńska, Turkish: İkinci Viyana Kuşatması, Ukrainian: Віденська відсіч / Viděns ' ka Vidsič ) took place on 11 and 12 September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.

The siege itself began on 14 July 1683, by the Ottoman Empire army of approximately 150, 000 to 300, 000 men.

On 31 March 1683 another declaration, sent by Kara Mustafa on behalf of Mehmet IV, arrived at the Imperial Court in Vienna.

But on 12 September 1683, the Austrians and their Polish allies under King Jan Sobieski took advantage of dissent within the Turkish military command and poor disposition of his troops, winning the Battle of Vienna with a devastating flank attack led by Sobieski's Polish cavalry.

The museum opened on 24 May 1683, with naturalist Robert Plot as the first keeper.

The name is next applied to the Isle of Dogs Fam ( originally known as Pomfret Manor ) shown on a map of 1683.

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

* According to a letter passed by the King of Arms of Portugal in the name of King Pedro II of Portugal and registered in the books of the municipal chamber of São Paulo on the 17 of April 1683, the Alvarengas were recognized as members of the nobility of blood ( Portuguese: fidalgos de linhagem ), a condition that in Portugal passed to all descendants that could prove descent, regardless of gender.

Further, Colonial authorities eventually allotted two reservations of the Pequot tribe, including in 1683 a plot of land on the eastern bank of Long Pond adjacent to Lantern Hill, in the south-western corner of the town.