In a letter dated the September 13, 1693, addressed to Samuel Pepys, he writes: " Some time after Mr Millington had delivered your message, he pressed me to see you the next time I went to London.

* John Dryden translated Ovid's poem in 1693

Jean de La Fontaine gained enormous celebrity through his Aesop inspired " Fables " ( 1668 – 1693 ) which were written in an irregular verse form ( different meter lengths are used in a poem ).

Jean de La Fontaine gained enormous celebrity through his Aesop and Phaedrus-inspired " Fables " ( 1668 – 1693 ), which were written in an irregular-verse form ( different meter lengths are used in a poem ).

John Locke's work Some Thoughts Concerning Education was written in 1693 and still reflects traditional education priorities in the Western world.

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

* 1693 – John Harrison, British clockmaker ( d. 1776 )

* 1776 – John Harrison, English clockmaker ( b. 1693 )

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.

* Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, built by the Normans and destroyed in 1693.

* September 7 – John Hickman, convicted forger ( b. 1693 )

* Eaden, John, The Memoirs of Père Labat, 1693 – 1705, Frank Cass, 1970.

* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1693 – 1768 ), a nephew of John Holles, 1st Duke, died without male issue, and his father's Laughton Barony and Baronetcy, his Earldom and his first Dukedom went extinct

According to Whitelaw, prior to 1693 the Accomack County courthouse shifted from Onancock to the tavern of John Cole at Matomkin.

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.

On land, evidence suggesting use of this flag appears in the depiction of Edinburgh Castle by John Slezer, in his series of engravings entitled Theatrum Scotiae, c. 1693.

* John Gilbert ( archbishop of York ) ( 1693 – 1761 ), Archbishop of York

Stirling Castle, drawn by John Slezer in 1693, and showing James IV's now-demolished Forework

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

Sir John Wildman ( c. 1621 – 2 June 1693 ) was an English politician and soldier.

* Sir John Trenchard: 23 March 1693 – 2 March 1694

It was the philosopher John Locke who first seems to have advocated targeting children as a special audience in Some Thoughts Concerning Education ( 1693 ).

As the settlement expanded its name changed: briefly known as " Bankside " in 1693, officially named Green's Farm in 1732 in honor of Bankside Farmer John Green and in 1835 incorporated as the Town of Westport.

* John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll ( 1693 – 1770 ) ( eldest son of Hon.

Unshrouded skeleton on Diana Warburton's tomb ( dated 1693 ) in St John the Baptist's Church, Chester | St John's Church, Chester

Thomas Pelham was born in London on 21 July 1693 the eldest son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, by his second wife, the former Lady Grace Holles, younger sister of the John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

* John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll ( 1693 – 1770 ), Scottish Whig politician

His first play, The Old Bachelor ( 1693 ) was sponsored by John Dryden, and he went on to write at least four more plays.

He contributed a version of the eighth satire of Juvenal to the translation ( 1693 ) of the satires by John Dryden and others.

Immediately afterwards appeared his much discussed Short View of Tragedy ( 1693 ), criticizing Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, which produced The Impartial Critick ( 1693 ) of John Dennis, the epigram of Dryden.

* The thirteenth Satire of Juvenal, with notes, in the translation ‘ by Mr. Dryden and other eminent hands ,’ 1693.

The first known reference to one was by Johann Speth in 1693 and the earliest such extant signed and dated clavichord was built in 1716 by Johann Michael Heinitz.

* the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by Christian I of Denmark, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693

Halley's tables and analysis, published in 1693, are considered to be the first true actuarial tables, and thus the foundation of modern actuarial science.

The first ever government bond was issued by the Bank of England in 1693 to raise money to fund a war against France.

According to late 20th century research, Custer's ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, who followed the first thirteen immigrant German families from Krefeld and surroundings, had emigrated to North America around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatine refugees whose passage was arranged by the English government of Queen Anne to gain settlers.

Egg Harbor Township was first mentioned as part of Gloucester County in records dating back to March 20, 1693, and at times was called New Weymouth.

Burlington was first incorporated on October 24, 1693, and was reincorporated by Royal Charter on May 7, 1733.

Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

The first European to settle the township was Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg, who likely arrived by 1693 when he does not appear on a census of the Swedes along the Delaware River, where he had lived for nearly three decades.

Houses in Main Street and Post Office Lane are dated 1693 and 1776 ; Brae House and White House, also in Main Street, are dated 1771 and 1778 and have a sundial at first floor level.

The earliest traffic up the Missouri likely occurred in the 1680s by unlicensed fur traders ; the first known ascent occurred in 1693, and within a decade, more than a hundred traders were moving along the Mississippi and Missouri.

Mail delivery within Canada first started in 1693 when the Portuguese born Pedro da Silva was paid to deliver mail between Quebec City and Montreal.

The first five cases tried in January 1693 were of the five people who had been indicted but not tried in September: Sarah Buckley, Margaret Jacobs, Rebecca Jacobs, Mary Whittredge and Job Tookey.

In 1693, Frederick III began to sound out the possibility of an elevation of his status at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and while the first attempt was unsuccessful, elevation to a king remained the central goal on his agenda.

Orleans was first settled in 1693 by Pilgrims from the Plymouth Colony who were dissatisfied with the poor soil and small tracts of land granted to them.

He inherited the Studley estate from his mother's family in 1693, and started serious development of the garden around 1716, becoming the first in England to introduce natural landscaping.

It was in this era that the first crossing on the Harlem was built, at the Old Albany Road ( north of Marble Hill ) in 1693.

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

This was by no means the first women's magazine, as The Ladies ' Mercury had been published in 1693.

It was first recorded by François Leguat, who was the leader of a group of eight French Huguenots who colonised the island or Rodrigues from 1691 to 1693 .< ref >.