1693

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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).

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Events of 1693

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1693

January - June

★ January 11 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.

★ 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 to Canton – European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else.

★ Sect of Amish is formed.

★ Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy.

★ Academia operosorum Labacensis is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

★ Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank in London.


★ Royal Hospital School is founded in Greenwich, London.

★ The Dodo becomes extinct.

Births

★ February 7 - Empress Anna I of Russia (died 1740)

★ February 24 - James Quin, English actor (died 1766)

★ March 5 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (died 1754)

★ March 7 - Pope Clement XIII (died 1769)

★ March 24 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (died 1776)

★ April 3 - George Edwards, English naturalist (died 1773)

★ June 17 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (died 1775)

★ July 21 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1768)

★ August 8 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (died 1762)

★ September 3 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (died 1746)

★ ''date unknown'' - Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1768)
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Deaths

★ February 7 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (born 1624)

★ April 5 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (born 1627)

★ April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (born 1618)

★ May 3 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (born 1607)

★ May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (born 1634)

★ June 2 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician (born c.1621)

★ July 12 - John Ashby, English admiral (born c.1640)

★ September 19 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (born 1641)

★ October 1 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (born 1619)

★ November 24 - William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1616)
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