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).
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[edit] Events of 1693
File:Etna's 1669 eruption.jpg
January 11: Etna erupts.
[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
| 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
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2353 (皇紀2353年) |
| Julian calendar | 1738 |
| Korean calendar | 4026 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2236 |
- 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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[edit] People of the year 1693 at Familypedia
7 people were born in 1693
2 children were born to the 2 women born in 1693
5 people died in 1693
443 people lived in 1693
[edit] Events of the year 1693 at Familypedia
8 people were married in 1693.
There were 0 military battles in 1693.
