Events from the year 1683 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
Deaths
- 15 January â Philip Warwick, writer and politician (born 1609)
- 21 January â Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (born 1621)
- 19 March â Thomas Killigrew, dramatist (born 1612)
- 13 July â Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, statesman, implicated in Rye House Plot, suicide (born 1631)
- 18 August â Charles Hart, actor (born 1625)
- 21 July â William Russell, Lord Russell, politician, executed (born 1639)
- 24 August â John Owen, non-conformist theologian (born 1616)
- 25 October â 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 â Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593)
- John Hingston, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612)
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