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Events from the year
1683
in
England
.
Incumbents
[
edit
]
Monarch
–
Charles II
Events
[
edit
]
River Thames frost fair
9 January –
Charles II
gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the
King's Evil
" ceremony.
[
1
]
22 March – great fire in
Newmarket, Suffolk
, consuming half the houses and forcing Charles II (who is in residence) to flee the town.
[
2
]
24 May – the
Ashmolean Museum
,
Oxford
, opens as the world's first purpose-built
university
museum
.
[
3
]
12 June – the
Rye House Plot
to assassinate
Charles II
is discovered;
[
4
]
at least 11 people will be executed for their connections with it.
21 July –
Lord Russell
is
beheaded
by
Jack Ketch
at
Lincoln's Inn Fields
for his part in the Rye House Plot.
[
5
]
[
6
]
28 July –
The Lady Anne
, the King's niece and fourth in line of succession, marries
Prince George of Denmark
in the
Chapel Royal
at
St James's Palace
, London.
12 December – start of exceptional cold spell. The
River Thames
freezes, allowing a
frost fair
to be held (
pictured
).
Undated
[
edit
]
Wild boars
are hunted to extinction in Britain.
[
4
]
The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
, probably by Alexander Oldys, is published.
Births
[
edit
]
1 March –
Caroline of Ansbach
, queen of
George II of Great Britain
(died 1737)
3 April –
Mark Catesby
, naturalist (died 1749)
25 October –
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
, politician (died 1757)
10 November – King
George II of Great Britain
(died 1760)
27 December –
Conyers Middleton
, minister (died 1750)
Deaths
[
edit
]
15 January –
Philip Warwick
, writer and politician (born 1609)
21 January –
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
, politician (born 1621)
19 March –
Thomas Killigrew
, dramatist (born 1612)
13 July –
Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
, statesman, implicated in Rye House Plot, suicide (born 1631)
18 August –
Charles Hart
, actor (born 1625)
21 July –
William Russell, Lord Russell
, politician, executed (born 1639)
24 August –
John Owen
, non-conformist theologian (born 1616)
25 October –
William Scroggs
, lord chief justice of England (born c. 1623)
7 December
John Oldham
, poet (born 1653)
Algernon Sidney
, parliamentarian and republican, executed (born 1623)
15 December –
Izaak Walton
, writer (born 1593)
John Hingston
, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612)
References
[
edit
]
^
"
"January 9th", Chambers' Book of Days"
. Archived from
the original
on 12 January 2008
. Retrieved
2007-12-13
.
^
Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great".
The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance
. C. & E. Layton. p. 44.
^
"Ashmolean Museum"
.
The Invention of Museum Anthropology
.
Pitt Rivers
. 2012
. Retrieved
2019-05-25
.
^
a
b
Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1683".
The People's Chronology
. Thomson Gale.
^
Fiorillo, Juré (2010-01-01).
Great Bastards of History: True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness
. Fair Winds. p. 82.
ISBN
978-1-59233-401-8
. Retrieved
2010-08-23
.
^
Ketch, Jack.
The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire
.
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