1683 in England

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Events from the year 1683 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

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]
• 6 June - The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, opens as the world's first university museum.^[2]
• 12 June - The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II is discovered.^[2]
• 21 July - Lord Russell is beheaded by Jack Ketch at Lincoln's Inn Fields for his part in the Rye House Plot.^[3][4]
• 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

• Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.^[2]
• The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore, probably by Alexander Oldys, is published.

Births

• 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

• 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 (born 1631)
• 18 August - Charles Hart, actor (born 1625)
• 21 July - William Russell, Lord Russell, politician (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)
• 7 December - Algernon Sydney, politician (born 1623)
• 15 December - Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593)

References

1. ""January 9th", Chambers' Book of Days". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
2. Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1683". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
3. 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.
4. Ketch, Jack. The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire.

See also