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1683 Calendar

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•  June 6, 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.
•  June 23, 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
•  July 16, 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.
•  September 11, 1683 – Battle of Vienna.
•  September 12, 1683 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
•  September 17, 1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing “animalcules”: the first known description of protozoa.
•  October 3, 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.
•  October 6, 1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
•  November 1, 1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

•  January 13, 1683 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
•  February 13, 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754)
•  March 1, 1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
•  March 13, 1683 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
•  June 23, 1683 – Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
•  September 7, 1683 – Mary Anne of Austria (d. 1754)
•  October 25, 1683 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
•  November 10, 1683 – George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
•  November 30, 1683 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
•  December 19, 1683 – Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)