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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 16th century17th century18th century
Decades: 1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years: 1680 1681 168216831684 1685 1686
1683 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1683
MDCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita2436
Armenian calendar1132
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԲ
Assyrian calendar6433
Balinese saka calendar1604–1605
Bengali calendar1090
Berber calendar2633
English Regnal year34 Cha. 2 – 35 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar2227
Burmese calendar1045
Byzantine calendar7191–7192
Chinese calendar壬戌(Water Dog)
4379 or 4319
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4380 or 4320
Coptic calendar1399–1400
Discordian calendar2849
Ethiopian calendar1675–1676
Hebrew calendar5443–5444
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1739–1740
 - Shaka Samvat1604–1605
 - Kali Yuga4783–4784
Holocene calendar11683
Igbo calendar683–684
Iranian calendar1061–1062
Islamic calendar1094–1095
Japanese calendarTenna 3
(天和3年)
Javanese calendar1605–1606
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4016
Minguo calendar229 before ROC
民前229年
Nanakshahi calendar215
Thai solar calendar2225–2226
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1809 or 1428 or 656
    — to —
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1810 or 1429 or 657

1683 (MDCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1683rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 683rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1683, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

  • June 6 – The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum.
  • June 12 – The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England is discovered.
  • July 8 – The Qing Dynasty Chinese admiral Shi Lang led 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian and sailed towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and the Pescadores in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.
  • July 14 – A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken at the Battle of Vienna on September 12 with the arrival of a force of 70,000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank. Considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes.
  • July 16 and July 17 – Battle of Penghu, the Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of Zheng Keshuang in a decisive victory.[1]
  • September 5 – the Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which was then incorporated into the Qing Empire. Shi Lang reached Taiwan on October 3 and occupied present day Kaohsiung.
  • October 6 – Germantown, Pennsylvania is founded, leading in 1983 to U.S. President Ronald Reagan declaring a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it became an annual holiday, German-American Day.
  • November 1 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
  • December – The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.

References

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  1. China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective, eds. Andrew Erickson; Lyle Goldstein (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press: China Maritime Studies Institute, 2009), p. 272