1693

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).

[edit] Events of 1693

January 11: Etna erupts.

February 8: William & Mary founded.

[edit] January - June

• January 11 - Mount Etna erupts, causing a devasting 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

• 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.

[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)

See also Category: 1693 births.

[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 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse 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)

See also Category: 1693 deaths.