1693

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1690 1691 1692 – 1693 – 1694 1695 1696

1693 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1693 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1693

January–June

• January 11 – Mount Etna erupts, causing a devastating 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

1693 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1693 MDCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2446
Armenian calendar	1142 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-151 – -150
Bengali calendar	1100
Berber calendar	2643
Buddhist calendar	2237
Burmese calendar	1055
Byzantine calendar	7201 – 7202
Chinese calendar	壬申年十一月廿五日 (4329/4389-11-25) — to — 癸酉年十二月初五日 (4330/4390-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1409 – 1410
Ethiopian calendar	1685 – 1686
Hebrew calendar	5453 – 5454
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1749 – 1750
- Shaka Samvat	1615 – 1616
- Kali Yuga	4794 – 4795
Holocene calendar	11693
Iranian calendar	1071 – 1072
Islamic calendar	1104 – 1105
Japanese calendar	Genroku 6 (元禄6年)
Korean calendar	4026
Thai solar calendar	2236

• 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.
• Founding of Bromsgrove School by Sir Thomas Cookes

Ongoing events

• Nine Years' War (1688–1697).
• Great Turkish War (1662–1699).

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)

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 – Madame 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)