1693

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Template:C17YearInTopicX 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 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
• February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg 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

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

1693 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1693 MDCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2446
Armenian calendar	1142 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-151 – -150
Buddhist calendar	2237
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)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2353 (皇紀2353年)
Julian calendar	1738
Korean calendar	4026
Thai solar calendar	2236
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• 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, 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)

See also 1693 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 7 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (born 1624)
• April 5 - Anne, French writer (born 1627)
• April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, French writer (born 1618)
• May 3 - Claude de Rouvroy, French courtier (born 1607)
• May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, 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)

See also 1693 deaths.

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