1683 in England

• Monarch – Charles II

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• 9 January – Charles II gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the King's Evil" ceremony.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/9.htm|title="January 9th", Chambers' Book of Days|access-date=2007-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112124449/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/9.htm|archive-date=12 January 2008}}
• 22 March – great fire in Newmarket, Suffolk, consuming half the houses and forcing Charles II (who is in residence) to flee the town.{{cite book|chapter=Fires, Great|title=The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance|editor-first=Cornelius|editor-last=Walford|publisher=C. & E. Layton|year=1876|page=44}}
• 24 May – the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, opens as the world's first purpose-built university museum.{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|work=The Invention of Museum Anthropology|publisher=Pitt Rivers|url=http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-ashmolean-museum.html|year=2012|access-date=2019-05-25}}
• 12 June – the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II is discovered;{{cite book|chapter=1683|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}} at least 11 people will be executed for their connections with it.
• 21 July – Lord Russell is beheaded by Jack Ketch at Lincoln's Inn Fields for his part in the Rye House Plot.{{cite book|last=Fiorillo|first=Juré|title=Great Bastards of History: True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ8amBTgny8C&pg=PA82|access-date=2010-08-23|date=2010-01-01|publisher=Fair Winds|isbn=978-1-59233-401-8|page=82}}{{cite book|first=Jack|last=Ketch|title=The Apologie of John Ketch, Esquire}}
• 28 July – The Lady Anne, the King's niece and fourth in line of succession, marries Prince George of Denmark in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, London.
• 12 December – start of exceptional cold spell. The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held (pictured).

• Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.
• The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore, probably by Alexander Oldys, is published.

• 1 March – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (died 1737)
• 3 April – Mark Catesby, naturalist (died 1749)
• 25 October – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, politician (died 1757)
• 10 November – King George II of Great Britain (died 1760)
• 27 December – Conyers Middleton, minister (died 1750)

• 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
• John Oldham, poet (born 1653)
• Algernon Sidney, parliamentarian and republican, executed (born 1623)
• 15 December – Izaak Walton, writer (born 1593)
• John Hingston, court composer, viol player and organist (born 1612)

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