* March 23 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian ( b. 1693 )

Jakob Ammann is known because his prominent involvement in a schism among the Swiss Brethren that began in 1693.

Johann Jakob Wettstein ( also Wetstein ) ( 5 March 1693 – 23 March 1754 ) was a Swiss theologian, best known as a New Testament critic.

* Wilhelm Jakob Rink von Baldenstein ( 1693 – 1705 )

By 1693, Ammann had moved from Switzerland to Heidolsheim, Alsace, where his father died and was buried in the neighboring village of Baldenheim.

John Slezer | Slezer's Edinburgh Castle c. 1693 depicting the Scottish Union Flag. Despite the drawings described in this letter as showing drafts of the two new patterns, together with any royal response to the complaint which may have accompanied them, having been lost in a fire, other evidence exists, at least on paper, of a Scottish variant whereby the Scottish cross appears uppermost.

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 ).

The earliest deck known of this type is from 1693, but such positioning did not become widespread until reintroduced by Hart in 1864, together with the Knave-to-Jack change.

De Vargas returned to Mexico and gathered together about 800 people, including 100 soldiers, and returned to Santa Fe in December 1693.

" And in a letter written to John Locke in reply to one of his about the second edition of his book, and dated the 15th of October 1693, Newton wrote: " The last, winter, by sleeping too often by my fire, I got an ill habit of sleeping ; and a distemper, which this summer has been epidemical, put me farther out of order, so that when I wrote to you, I had not slept an hour a night for a fortnight together, and for five days together not a wink.

On September 20, 1693, Millington wrote to Pepys that he had been to look for Newton some time before, but that " he was out of town, and since ," he says, " I have not seen him, till upon the 28th I met him at Huntingdon, where, upon his own accord, and before I had time to ask him any question, he told me that he had written to you a very odd letter, at which he was much concerned ; added, that it was in a distemper that much seized his head, and that kept him awake for above five nights together, which upon occasion he desired I would represent to you, and beg your pardon, he being very much ashamed he should be so rude to a person for whom he hath so great an honour.

The north transept has much less of its structure preserved but much of what does remain taken together with a study by John Slezer in 1693 showed that the two transepts were very similar with the exception that the north transept had a stone turret containing a stair and had no external door.

The Alfred jewel, discovered in Somerset in 1693, has long been associated with King Alfred because of its Old English inscription " AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN " ( Alfred ordered me to be made ).

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

He was not the first writer to criticise the system, with John Locke writing a formal memorandum to the MP Edward Clarke in 1693 while the Licensing Act was being renewed, complaining that the existing system restricted the free exchange of ideas and education while providing an unfair monopoly for Company members.

But Pope Innocent XII abolished nepotism and the office of Legate in Avignon on 7 February 1693, handing over its temporal government in 1692 to the Congregation of Avignon ( i. e. a department of the papal Curia, residing at Rome ), with the Cardinal Secretary of State as presiding prefect, and exercising its jurisdiction through the vice-legate.

The couple became estranged — George preferred the company of his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, by whom he had two daughters in 1692 and 1693 ; and Sophia Dorothea, meanwhile, had her own romance with the Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck.

Finally, in 1693 the prince studied composition with Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

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.

* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 1693 – 1768 ) was given a second Newcastle dukedom with remainder to his nephew

Among the synonyms of Castor fiber was cited the one-word name Castor with references to six pre-Linnean works ( Gesner 1598, Rondelet 1554, Jonston 1650, Dodart 1676, Ray 1693 and Aldrovandi 1649 ).

Tattershall castle was recovered in 1560 by Sir Henry Sidney, who sold it to Lord Clinton, later Earl of Lincoln, and it remained with the Earls of Lincoln until 1693.

Tender-Conscience, hero of Part Three, awakens from sleep in the palace of Carnal-SecurityThe Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress was written by an anonymous author ; beginning in 1693, it was published with Bunyan's authentic two parts.

Finch presented him with the rectory of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, in 1693.

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 ).

Most accounts begin with the afflictions of the girls in the Parris household in January / February 1692 and end with the last trials in May 1693, but some start earlier to place the trials in the wider context of other witch-hunts, and some end later to include information about restitution.

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 spite of all sorts of obstacles, and of the slowness of the Holy See, which in 1693 imparted indulgences to the Confraternities of the Sacred Heart and, in 1697, granted the feast to the Visitandines with the Mass of the Five Wounds, but refused a feast common to all, with special Mass and Office.

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

French arms at Heidelberg, Rosas, Huy, Landen, Charleroi and Marsaglia had achieved considerable battlefield success, but with the severe hardships of 1693 continuing through to the summer of 1694 France was unable to expend the same level of energy and finance for the forthcoming campaign.

The guineas of this reign weighed 8. 5 grams, were 25 – 26 mm in diameter, and were the work of James and Norbert Roettier and were produced in all years between 1689 and 1694 both with and without the elephant and castle ; in 1692 and 1693 the mark of the elephant alone was also used.

a letter to their homeland in 1693 asking for ministers and

In late 1693 or early 1694 his mother sent him to a school in Zellerfeld, hoping that this would convince her son to choose a different career.

He represented William III at various other German courts, and in 1702 was sent to Vienna, where he had already acted as envoy in 1693.

He was sent to Halle to complete his education, but in 1693 left the university to serve with the Prussian contingent of the allied army in the Low Countries.

In 1693 he was sent to the Monastery of St. Gregory the Great, the Camaldolese house in Rome, to complete his studies in philosophy and theology in preparation for Holy Orders.

Many other Topsfield residents were accused of witchcraft until the hysteria ended in May 1693, when the governor of Massachusetts set free all of the remaining persons accused of witchcraft and issued a proclamation of general pardon.

Elizabeth and John III remained in jail until May 1693, when a general release freed all of those prisoners who remained jailed.

* Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg ( 1645 – 1693 ), younger son of the 1st Duke, was also a general

The right of bequest in these places was not assimilated to the general law until comparatively recent times by Acts passed between 1693 and 1726.

He then became lieutenant general ( 1691 ) and general ( 1693 ).

They first came into great prominence in the 16th century, being given countly rank in 1679 in the person of the imperial general Stefan Zichy ( d. 1693 ).