1693
| Years: 1690 1691 1692 – 1693 – 1694 1695 1696 | |
| Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s | |
| Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century 1693 in topic: | |
Events
- January 11 – Eruption of Mt. Etna.
- February 8 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter
- July 29 – The Battle of Landen
- October 11 – Charleloi falls to the French forces
- China concentrates all its foreign trade to Canton – European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else
- Sect of Amish formed
- Knights of Apocalypse formed in Italy
- Academia operosorum Labacensis established in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank in London.
Births
- February 7 – Empress Anna I of Russia (d. 1860)
- March 5 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
- March 7 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- April 3 – George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
- Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)
Deaths
- September 19 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641)
- William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1616)
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