1683 in England

1683 Events from the year 1683 in England. Incumbents Monarch – Charles II Events right|thumb|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.http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/9.htm "January 9th", Chambers' Book of Days 2007-12-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20080112124449/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/9.htm 12 January 2008 22 March – great fire in Newmarket, Suffolk, consuming half the houses and forcing Charles II (who is in residence) to flee the town.Fires, Great The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance Cornelius Walford C. & E. Layton 1876 44 24 May – the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, opens as the world's first purpose-built university museum.Ashmolean Museum The Invention of Museum Anthropology Pitt Rivers http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-ashmolean-museum.html 2012 2019-05-25 12 June – the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II is discovered;1683 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 at least 11 people will be executed for their connections with it. 21 July – Lord Russell is beheaded by Jack Ketch at Lincoln's Inn Fields for his part in the Rye House Plot.Fiorillo Juré Great Bastards of History: True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ8amBTgny8C&pg=PA82 2010-08-23 2010-01-01 Fair Winds 978-1-59233-401-8 82Jack Ketch The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire 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. 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, implicated in Rye House Plot, suicide (born 1631) 18 August – Charles Hart, actor (born 1625) 21 July – William Russell, Lord Russell, politician, executed (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) Algernon Sidney, parliamentarian and republican, executed (born 1623) 15 December – Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593) John Hingston, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612) References 1683 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England