What happened in 1683?

Answer 1

January-June

· April 10 - Charles V, Duke of Lorraine is appointed commander of the Imperial army.

· May 3 - Sultan Mehmed IV enters Belgrade.

· June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum.

· June 12 - The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England is discovered.

July-December

· July 8 - The Qing dynasty Chinese admiral Shi Lang leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and Penghu, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.

· July 14 - A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna and starts to besiege the city.

· July 16 and July 17- Battle of Penghu: Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of Zheng Keshuang in a decisive victory.

· September 5 - The Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which is then incorporated into the Qing Empire.

· September 12 - Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70,000 Poles, Austriansand Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank (considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes). [1]

· October 3 - Shi Lang reaches Taiwan and occupies present day Kaohsiung.

· October 6 - Germantown, Philadelphia is founded as the first permanent German settlement in North America (in 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day).

· November 1 - The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

· December - The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.

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· Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.