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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Years:'''
1690 1691 1692 - 1693 - 1694 1695 1696 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1660s 1670s 1680s - '''1690s''' - 1700s 1710s 1720s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
16th century - '''17th century''' - 18th century
1693 in literature
1693 in science
1693 state leaders |} ==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 * Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank in London. ==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 polymathaf:1693 bg:1693 ca:1693 cy:1693 da:1693 de:1693 el:1693 es:1693 eo:1693 eu:1693 fr:1693 hr:1693 it:1693 hu:1693 nl:1693 no:1693 pl:1693 pt:1693 ro:1693 ru:1693 sl:1693 sr:1693 fi:1693 sv:1693 tr:1693 uk:1693 zh:1693年
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