1673 in France explained

Events from the year 1673 in France

Incumbents

17 May - Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette joins Louis Jolliet on his expedition to explore the northern Mississippi River.
7 June - First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch Republic fleet (commanded by Michiel de Ruyter) defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet, commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
14 June - The Dutch fleet again defeats the combined Anglo-French fleet in the Second Battle of Schooneveld.
6 July - French troops conquer Maastricht.
21 August - Battle of Texel: The Dutch fleet (under de Ruyter) again defeats the combined Anglo-French fleet.
30 August - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.
France begins its expedition against Ceylon.

10 February - The première of Molière's comédie-ballet The Imaginary Invalid (Le malade imaginaire) takes place in Paris. During the fourth performance, the playwright, playing the title rôle, collapses on stage, dying soon after.^[2]
27 April? - Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera, Cadmus et Hermione, is premièred.

Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
Web site: The Imaginary Invalid. The Encyclopædia Britannica. 2019-02-24.
Encyclopedia: Caylus, Marthe Marguerite de Villette. Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon. 4. 1916. 2. Blangstrup, Chr.. Christian Blangstrup. J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Copenhagen. da. 2015-09-05.