29th March » Yaoya Oshichi, 15-year-old Japanese girl, burnt at the stake for an act of arson committed due to unrequited love.
23rd June » William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
16th July » Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Penghu called Pescadores Islands.
12th September » Great Turkish War called Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
17th September » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
3rd October » 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.
6th October » German American German immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Germantown in the Province of Pennsylvania colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1st November » The Kingdom of Great Britain British crown Province of New York colony of New York is subdivided into 12 County (United States) counties.
Famous Birthdays in 1683
13th January » Christoph Graupner, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1760)
14th January » Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
13th February » Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754)
28th February » René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist (d. 1757)