* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 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 )

* 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.

Williamsburg became the colonial capital in 1699, following the founding of The College of William & Mary in 1693.

It was built and named the College of William and Mary at Middle Plantation in 1693, the second oldest school of higher education in the United States.

The discovery of the Giant's Causeway was announced to the wider world in 1693 by the presentation of a paper to the Royal Society from Sir Richard Bulkeley, a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, although the discoverer had, in fact, been the Bishop of Derry who had visited the site a year earlier.

The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693.

The college is one of the oldest in the United States, after Harvard ( 1636 ), the College of William and Mary ( 1693 ), St. John's College in Annapolis ( 1696 ), Yale University ( 1701 ), and the University of Pennsylvania ( 1740 ).

Pepys must have heard such rumours, as in a letter to his friend Millington, the tutor of Magdalene College at Cambridge, dated September 26, 1693, he wrote: " I must acknowledge myself not at the ease I would be glad to be at in reference to excellent Mr Newton ; concerning whom ( methinks ) your answer labours under the same kind of restraint which ( to tell you the truth ) my asking did.

* John Spencer ( Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ) ( 1630 – 1693 )

The financial endowment of Sir Thomas Cookes in 1693 produced the first buildings on the present site and the historic link with Worcester College, Oxford which shares the same coat of arms and motto, based on those of Thomas Cookes of Norgrove.

He was trained at Harvard College ( B. A., 1690 ; M. A., 1693 ).

In 1693, Middle Plantation was selected as the site of the new College of William & Mary.

The College was founded on February 8, 1693, under a Royal Charter secured by Blair.

In 1699, the capital of Virginia was moved from Jamestown to a location on high ground at Middle Plantation at the suggestion of students from the College of William and Mary, which had been established there in 1693.

( In October 2005, she had accepted the ceremonial role of becoming the 23rd chancellor of the College of William and Mary, which was founded in nearby Williamsburg in 1693.

On the top of the building is a weather vane with the number 1693, the year the College was founded.

William Stoughton, Mather wrote Wonders of the Invisible World written during the trials and published in 1693.

* January 30 – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1693 )

Manor St. George was a land grant given to Col. William " Tangier " Smith in 1693 in recognition of Smith's service as the governor of Tangier, Morocco, Africa.

In 1693, William " Tangier " Smith, who owned a homestead in Setauket, New York, was allowed to purchase a large tract of land on the South Shore of Long Island in recognition of his being mayor of Tangier in Africa.

William Yardley died in 1693, and his family in 1702-1703, possibly of smallpox.

He erected a kiln to process it, which by 1693 had attracted the attention of William Penn.

In about 1693 his grandson William Anson ( 1656 – 1720 ) demolished the old house and created a new mansion.

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.

His other works included odes for the birthdays of William III ( in at least 1693, 1694 and 1696 ).

Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of " good fortune " with the word speed ( Middle English spede, Old English spēd ); speed besides " good fortune " had the wider meaning of " prosperity, profit, abundance "; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help ; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in " Christ be our speed " ( William Robertson, Phraseologia generalis, 1693 ).

In January 1693, the new Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery convened in Salem, Essex County, again headed by William Stoughton, as Chief Justice, with Anthony Checkley continuing as the Attorney General, and Jonathan Elatson as Clerk of the Court.

In 1693 Aubrey asked his brother William and Thomas Tanner ( afterwards Bishop of St Asaph ), to bring the project to completion: they were keen to do so, but it was not to be.

On 30 August 1655, Cooper married his third wife, Margaret Spencer ( 1627 – 1693 ), daughter of William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton and sister of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland.

The Battle of Landen ( or Neerwinden ), in the current Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, was a battle in the Nine Years ' War, fought in present-day Belgium on 29 July 1693 between the French army of Marshal Luxembourg and the Allied army of King William III of England.

Marshal Luxembourg, having with a series of feints induced William to detach portions of his army, rapidly drew together superior numbers in the face of the Allied camps, which lay in a rough semicircle from Eliksem on the right to Neerlanden, thence along the Landen brook on the left ( 18 – 28 July 1693 ).

Halifax spoke in favor of the Triennial Bill ( 12 January 1693 ) which passed the legislature but was vetoed by William, suggested a proviso in the Licensing Act of 1692, which restricted its operation to anonymous works, and approved the Place Bill ( 1694 ).

He declined the office of Lord Chancellor under William and Mary, but accepted that of secretary of state, retaining it till December 1693.

* Charles William Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, 2nd Earl of Bindon ( 1693 – 1722 )

* William Hill ( died 1693 ) succeeded to the Hillsborough estates on the death of his elder half-brother Moyses Hill, and was a Privy Councillor under Charles II and James II and Member of the Irish Parliament for Ballyshannon from 1661 until 1666.

In 1693 Sewall was appointed an associate justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court, by Governor Sir William Phips.