1683 in England
List of events
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles II
Events
- 9 January â Charles II gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the King's Evil" ceremony.[1]
- 22 March â great fire in Newmarket, Suffolk, consuming half the houses and forcing Charles II (who is in residence) to flee the town.[2]
- 24 May â the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, opens as the world's first purpose-built university museum.[3]
- 12 June â 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 â Lord Russell is beheaded by Jack Ketch at Lincoln's Inn Fields for his part in the Rye House Plot.[5][6]
- 28 July â 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 â 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.[4]
- The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore, probably by Alexander Oldys, is published.
Births
- 1 March â Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (died 1737)
- 3 April â Mark Catesby, naturalist (died 1749)
- 25 October â Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, politician (died 1757)
- 10 November â King George II of Great Britain (died 1760)
- 27 December â Conyers Middleton, minister (died 1750)
Deaths
- 15 January â Philip Warwick, writer and politician (born 1609)
- 21 January â Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (born 1621)
- 19 March â Thomas Killigrew, dramatist (born 1612)
- 13 July â Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, statesman, implicated in Rye House Plot, suicide (born 1631)
- 18 August â Charles Hart, actor (born 1625)
- 21 July â William Russell, Lord Russell, politician, executed (born 1639)
- 24 August â John Owen, non-conformist theologian (born 1616)
- 25 October â 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 â Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593)
- John Hingston, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612)