Timeline June 1673

Events in June 1673 3

• 1611 – 1673 Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611-1673) Died 25 June 1673, aged 62 D'Artagnan was a Gascon nobleman who rose to command the Musketeers of the Guard under Louis XIV and served as a trusted agent in affairs such as the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet. He was killed by a musket shot while leading an assault during the siege of Maastricht. His life later inspired Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers.
• 1673 French forces capture Maastricht Vauban directs Louis XIV's siege during the Franco-Dutch War A French army led by Louis XIV and besieged under the direction of engineer Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban captured the strategic Dutch fortress of Maastricht. Vauban's methodical parallel-trench siege tactics, used here for the first time, became the standard method of siege warfare in Europe. The city remained in French hands until the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.
• 1673 Marquette and Jolliet reach the Mississippi River French expedition becomes first Europeans to map the upper river Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Jolliet paddled from Lake Michigan into the Mississippi River, becoming the first Europeans known to travel and map its upper course. The expedition traveled as far south as the Arkansas River before turning back on reports of hostile tribes and Spanish territory ahead. Their journals opened the Mississippi basin to French exploration and trade.