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 v • d • e

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 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1693

[edit] 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.

[edit] July–December

1693 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1693 MDCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2446
Armenian calendar	1142 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-151 – -150
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
- Vikram Samvat	1748 – 1749
- 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
v • d • e

• July 29 – The Battle of Landen
• October 11 – Charleroi falls to the French forces

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)