* 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 )

* 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 )

* 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.

The excellent location of St. Louis caught the attention of English who occupied it three times for a few months in 1693, then during the Seven Years ' War of 1758 until it was taken by the Duc de Lauzun in 1779, lastly 1809 in 1816.

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

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 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.

The British government first issued tontines in 1693 to fund a war against France, part of the Nine Years ' War.

In 1693 architect Tylman van Gameren created a plan for rebuilding of the palace, and in 1705, the complex was partially burned during the Great Northern War.

* John Ashby ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1640 – 1693 ), English admiral during the War of the League of Augsburg

During the War of the Grand Alliance, the regiment fought at the Battle of Walcourt ( 1689 ), the Battle of Steenkerque ( 1692 ), the Battle of Landen ( 1693 ) and the Siege of Namur ( 1695 ).

In both 1369 and 1693 ( in the latter case owing to the devastation wrought by the French in the Nine Years ' War ), Heppenheim was almost utterly destroyed in town fires.

The eldest son, Anne Jules de Noailles ( 1650 – 1708 ), was one of the chief generals of France towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and, after raising the regiment of Noailles in 1689, he commanded in Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, and was made marshal of France in 1693.

Anne Jules de Noailles, 2nd Duke of Noailles ( 5 February 1650 – 2 October 1708 ) was one of the chief generals of France towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and, after raising the regiment of Noailles in 1689, he commanded in Spain during both the War of the Grand Alliance and the War of the Spanish Succession, and was made marshal of France in 1693.

In the Second Dutch War ( 1665 – 1667 ), while mate of a ship in the Baltic trade, he was pressed into service with the Royal Navy and rose to be Admiral of William III's Blue Fleet ( 8 February 1693 ).

In the Dutch War and in the War of the Grand Alliance French troops set fire to numerous building in 1674, 1689, and 1693.

In the early Swedish period, three stormfloods ( 1649, 1663, and 1693 ), a fire in 1662, and another fire in 1678 ravaged the town ; the second fire was laid by Brandenburg's von Treffenfeld during the Scanian War.

Dundee's Insurrection: Dunkeld ( 1689 ); War of the League of Augsburg: Landen ( 1693 ).

Such parquets en lozange were noted by the Swedish architect Daniel Cronström at Versailles and at the Grand Trianon in 1693.

Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin () ( 1 June 1693 – 21 April 1768 ), Grand Chancellor of Russia, was one of the most influential and successful European diplomats of the 18th century.

Moreover the married young German lady, later to become a brilliant and militarily aggressive Empress, was closely monitored in her behavior by the Imperial Grand Chancellor Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin ( Алексе ́ й Петро ́ вич Бесту ́ жев-Рю ́ мин ) ( June 1, 1693 – April 21, 1768 ), Grand Chancellor of Russia, and closely watched over by Empress Elizabeth's cousin, Maria Choglokova, aged 24 but already with seven children.

* Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha ( 1693 – 1694 ), Ottoman Grand Vizier

After taking the Grand Tour of the Alps he published his comments in a journal letter published as Miscellanies in 1693, giving an account of crossing the Alps where, contrary to his prior feelings for the beauty of nature as a " delight that is consistent with reason ", the experience of the journey was at once a " pleasure to the eye as music is to the ear ", but " mingled with Horrours, and sometimes almost with despair.

The order was instituted in its current form on 1 December 1693 by King Christian V as having only one class consisting of only 30 noble knights in addition to the Grand Master ( i. e., the king ) and his sons.

Stanisław Lubomirski ( 1583 – 1649 ) married Zofia Ostrogska, Aleksander Michał Lubomirski married Helena Tekla Ossolińska, Krystyna Lubomirska married Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Józef Karol ( 1638 – 1702 ) was Teofilia Ludwika Zasławska ’ s husband, Teresa Lubomirska ( d. 1712 ) was Karol Filip ’ s wife, the Prince of Neuburg, and Marianna ( 1693 – 1729 ) – Paweł Karol Sanguszko ’ s, Grand Marshal of Lithuania.

* Didon, opera ( tragédie en musique ) in 5 acts and a prologue, libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique 5 June 1693 ( reprised 11 September in the presence of Louis, Grand Dauphin )