1683 in England explained
Events from the year 1683 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
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
- 15 December – Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593)
- John Hingston, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612)
Notes and References
- Web site: "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.
- Web site: Ashmolean Museum. The Invention of Museum Anthropology. Pitt Rivers. 2012. 2019-05-25.
- Book: 1683. The People's Chronology. Everett, Jason M.. Thomson Gale. 2006.
- Book: Fiorillo, Juré. Great Bastards of History: True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness. 2010-08-23. 2010-01-01. Fair Winds. 978-1-59233-401-8. 82.
- Book: Ketch, Jack. The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire.