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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 literature 1693 in science 1693 state leaders

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

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
• College of William and Mary founded in Williamsburg, Virginia

Births

• February 7 - Princess Anna Ivanova Romanov later Empress Anna I of Russia
• March 5 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, theologian, († 1754)
• March 7 - Pope Clement XIII († 1769)
• April 3 - George Edwards, naturalist († 1773)

Deaths

• September - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath

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