Events from the year 1673 in France

Incumbents

* List of French monarchs, Monarch – Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV

Events

*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.

Arts and literature

*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. *27 April? – Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera, ''Cadmus et Hermione'', is premièred.

Births

*Marquise de Caylus, noblewoman (died 1729)

Deaths

*17 February – Molière, playwright and actor (born 1622) *10 March – Henriette de Coligny de La Suze, writer (born 1618) *18 June – Jeanne Mance, nurse (born 1606) *29 November – Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche, nobleman (born 1637) *6 December – Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, cartographer (born c.1600)

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