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Everything about 1693 totally explainedYear 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).
Events of 1693
January - June
July - December
July 29 - The Battle of Landen
October 11 – Charleroi falls to the French forces
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.
Births
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, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 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)
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Deaths
February 7 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (born 1624)
April 5 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (born 1627)
April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (born 1618)
May 3 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (born 1607)
May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, 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)
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