* 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1743 )

* 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.

* The Biblia Americana ( 1693 – 1728 )

Biblia Americana is incredibly large and Mather worked on it from 1693 – 1728, when he died.

According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1693 – James Quin, English actor ( d. 1766 )

* 1645 – Johann Christoph Bach, German musician ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia ( d. 1740 )

* 1619 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, singer, organist and composer ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

* 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian ( d. 1775 )

* 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.

* 1693 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy.

* 1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar ( b. 1693 )

* 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.

* 1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1768 )

John Harrison ( 24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776 ) was a self-educated English carpenter and later a clockmaker.

The French royal Order of Saint Louis ( 1693 – 1790 and 1814 – 1830 ), the Île Saint-Louis as well as a hospital in the 10th arrondissement of Paris also bear his name.

* February 12 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( b. 1693 )

Dr. Guy-Crescent Fagon was appointed in 1693, and he surrounded himself with a team of brilliant botanists, including Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu and his son Adrien-Henri.

* Laurent Cassegrain, French priest and physicist ( died 1693 )

* February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer ( born 1693 )

Laurent Belissen ( also Bellissen ) ( 8 August 1693 – 12 February 1762 ) was a French Baroque composer.

* 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and princess ( d. 1693 )

* 1634 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer ( d. 1693 )

Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert ( 1656 ), Guynaud ( 1693 ) and Bareste ( 1840 ), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th century French texts, or on pure invention.

* 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.

In 1693 he compelled French bishops to retract the four propositions relating to the Gallican Liberties which had been formulated by the assembly of 1682.

The island was taken up by the English on February 4, 1693 before being again occupied by the French four months later.

* October 30 – Paul Pellisson, French author ( d. 1693 )

* April 13 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer ( d. 1693 )

* August – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier ( d. 1693 )

* March 18 – Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, French novelist ( d. 1693 )

* Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette ( 1634 – 1693 ), French author better known as Madame de La Fayette

In 1693, during the War of the Grand Alliance the French captured the town again.

After failing to Christianize the Mohawk, forces from French Canada twice attacked the village in 1667 and 1693 during rising conflict with the people in the valley.

La Pointe was originally the site of a fortified French trading post from 1693 – 1698, and 1718-1759.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy ( 13 April 1618 – 9 April 1693 ), commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist.

Paul Pellisson ( 30 October 1624 – 7 February 1693 ) was a French author.

His three opera librettoes, Psyché ( 1678 ), Bellérophon ( 1679 ) and Médée ( 1693 ) make him, next to Philippe Quinault and Jean Galbert de Campistron, one of the most important French librettists of the seventeenth century.

From 1693 to 1705, this was the home of Père Labat, the French Dominican priest who improved the distillery.

In 1693, Fénelon was elected to Seat 34 of the French Academy.

He served on the continent under William of Orange during the Nine Years ' War and, having been promoted to major-general, he fought at the Battle of Steenkerque in August 1692 and the Battle of Landen in July 1693, where he was taken prisoner by the French and then exchanged for the Duke of Berwick, James II's illegitimate son.

The overall design, as drawn by John Slezer in 1693, shows French influence, and has parallels with the forework erected at Linlithgow Palace.