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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
1693* January 11 - Eruption of Mt. Etna. * February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a Royal charter from William III and Mary II of England* July 29 - The Battle of Landen* October 11 – Charleroi 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. * Royal Hospital School founded in Greenwich, London. * 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, English statesman (d. 1768) * August 8 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762) * September 3 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746) * Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768) * 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 * July 12 - John Ashby, English admiral * September 19 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641) * October 1 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619) * William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1616)
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