1673 in France

Events from the year 1673 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xiv.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=9 June 2022}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Imaginary-Invalid |title=The Imaginary Invalid|work=The Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2019-02-24}}
27 April? – Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera, Cadmus et Hermione, is premièred.

Marquise de Caylus, noblewoman (died 1729){{cite encyclopedia|title=Caylus, Marthe Marguerite de Villette|encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon|volume=4|year=1916|edition=2|editor=Blangstrup, Chr.|editor-link=Christian Blangstrup|publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel|location=Copenhagen|language=da|url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/4/0716.html|access-date=2015-09-05}}