1693

Year 1693 (MDCXCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1693

January - June

* January 11 - Mount Etna erupts, causing a devasting earthquake that affects parts of Sicily and Malta.
* February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England.
* May 18 - Forces of Louis XIV of France attack Heidelberg (now Germany), the Palatine capital.
* May 22 - The town of Heidelberg is taken by invading French forces, and the castle is surrendered on May 23.
* May - After the castle is surrendered, French forces blow up the towers of Heidelberg Castle using mines.

July - December

* July 29 - The Battle of Landen
* October 11 - Charleroi falls to the French forces

Undated

* China concentrates all its foreign trade on Canton; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else.
* The Mennonite Amish sect is formed.
* The Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy.
* The "Academia operosorum Labacensis" is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
* Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank in London.
* The Royal Hospital School is founded in Greenwich, London.
* The Dodo becomes extinct.

Births

* February 7 - Empress Anna I of Russia (d. 1740)
* February 24 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
* March 5 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
* March 7 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
* March 24 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (d. 1776)
* April 3 - George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
* June 17 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
* July 21 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
* August 8 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
* September 3 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)

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Deaths

* February 7 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
* April 5 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
* April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
* May 3 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
* May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
* June 2 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. c. 1621)
* July 12 - John Ashby, English admiral (b. c. 1640)
* September 19 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641)
* October 1 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
* November 24 - William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1616)

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