Editing 1673 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===   
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Kintai Bridge]] is officially completed in [[Iwakuni]], [[Suō Province]] (modern-day [[Yamaguchi Prefecture]]), Japan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[Kintaikyo Bridge] Iwakuni city Homepage > Summary|url=http://kintaikyo.iwakuni-city.net/en/summary.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=kintaikyo.iwakuni-city.net}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; King [[Charles II of England]] removes [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], from his position as Lord Chancellor.
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Khotyn (1673)|Battle of Khotyn]]: [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Lithuania]]n military units, under the command of soon-to-be-king [[Jan III Sobieski|Jan Sobieski]], defeat the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] army. In this battle, which takes place one day after the death of Poland and Lithuania's monarch, [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki]], the rockets invented by [[Kazimierz Siemienowicz]] are successfully used.
* [[November 13]] &ndash; Dutch troops commanded by [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]] and [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]] conquer [[Bonn]].
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Christopher Wren]] is knighted in England.
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[James II of England|James, Duke of York]], marries [[Mary of Modena]];<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=191–192|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> they meet for the first time immediately before the ceremony in [[Dover]].
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal, 6th Duke of Veragua|Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal]] dies only five days after arriving in Mexico City to take office as the new [[viceroy of New Spain]].  He is replaced on December 13 by [[Payo Enríquez de Rivera]], the former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; King [[Louis XIV]] of France issues a decree recognizing the legitimacy of (and giving royal titles to) the three children whom he had sired through his mistress, the [[Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan|Marquise de Montespan]]: [[Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine]]; [[Louis César, Count of Vexin]]; and [[Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Princess of Condé]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; In China, General [[Wu Sangui]] begins the [[Revolt of the Three Feudatories]], a rebellion against the [[Qing dynasty]] by killing the Governor of the [[Yunnan]] province, Zhu Guozhi.  Within 10 days, he leads troops on an expedition to take over the neighboring [[Guizhou]] province and by 1676 controls 11 of China's provinces.