1693 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1693?
- January 11, 1693 – Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
- February 8, 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
- July 25, 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- July 29, 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
- August 4, 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
- October 4, 1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
Who Were Born In The Year 1693?
- February 7, 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
- February 24, 1693 – James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
- March 5, 1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
- March 7, 1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- March 24, 1693 – John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
- April 3, 1693 – George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
- April 16, 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
- June 17, 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
- July 21, 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
- August 8, 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
- September 3, 1693 – Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
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