The Riksdag of the Estates confirmed his power in 1693 by officially proclaiming that the king was the sole ruler of Sweden.

, it continues to be awarded under statutes established by king Christian V in 1693, amended in 1958 to permit the admission of women to the order.

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.

In 1693, Middleton joined the exiled king at Saint-Germain after he proposed a more moderate declaration for a Jacobite restoration than James ' chief advisor and Secretary of State, John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort.

The king himself wrote to the pope ( 14 September 1693 ) to announce that a royal order had been issued against the execution of the edict of 23 March 1682.

The civil articles were not honoured by the victorious Williamite government for long, as the Papacy again recognized James II as the lawful king of Ireland from 1693.

Because he died without legitimate issue — Electress Eleonore suffered two miscarriages during their marriage, in August 1692 and February 1693 — he was succeeded as Elector by his brother Frederick Augustus I ( king of Poland as Augustus II of Poland ).

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.

Although the Herrenmeister is now elected and no longer is nominated by the king of Prussia or emperor of Germany, each holder of the office since 1693 has been a member of the House of Hohenzollern, the family of the former Prussian kings and last German emperors.

In 1688 the king of Sweden, Charles XI, brought him to Stockholm, ennobling him under the name von Löwenstern-Kunckel in 1693 and making him a member of the Bergskollegium, the Board of Mines.

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 ).

* 1693 – Charles Radclyffe, English politician ( d. 1746 )

* December 8 – Charles Radclyffe, British politician ( b. 1693 )

His second wife, whom he married in 1715, was Ulrika Eleonora, Princess of Sweden, ( 1688 – 1741 ), daughter of Charles XI of Sweden ( 1655 – 1697 ) and of Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark ( 1656 – 1693 ).

Charles then encouraged the production of a hymnal ( Psalmbok ) to be printed and distributed to the churches ( completed 1693 ), and a new print of the Bible that was completed in 1703 and named after his successor: Charles XII Bible.

On 6 May 1680, Charles married Ulrike Eleonora ( 1656 – 1693 ), daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark ( 1609 – 1670 ).

When she became seriously ill, in 1693, Charles finally dedicated his time and care to her.

Woodbridge was settled in the early autumn of 1664 and was granted a charter on June 1, 1669 by King Charles II of England, and reincorporated on October 31, 1693.

Sir Charles Carteret, 3rd Baronet ( 4 June 1679 – 6 June May 1715 ) was Seigneur of Sark from 1693 to 1715.

His son Augustin Marhein changed his surname to Mannerheim and was raised to the nobility by King Charles XI in 1693.

In 1674 appeared also his translation of Longinus ' On the Sublime, to which were added in 1693 certain critical reflections, chiefly directed against the theory of the superiority of the moderns over the ancients as advanced by Charles Perrault.

* Charles Blount ( deist ) ( 1654 – 1693 ), British author and activist

Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark ( 11 September 1656 – 26 July 1693 ) was the Queen consort of Sweden as the spouse of King Charles XI of Sweden.

His eldest son Charles Schomberg, the second duke in the English peerage, died in the year 1693 of wounds received at the Battle of Marsaglia.

* 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.

The next creation came in 1693 for his nephew Charles Butler ( who was also created Baron Butler of Cloughgrenan and Viscount Tullough ).

* Sir Charles Hotham, 5th Baronet ( 1693 – 1738 )

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

Wimpole Hall's grounds were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London and Henry Wise ( 1693 – 1705 ), Charles Bridgeman ( 1720s ), Robert Greening ( 1740s ), ' Capability ' Brown ( 1767 ), and Humphry Repton ( 1801 – 1809 ).

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* The second Royal Charles was a 100-gun ship of the line, launched in 1673, renamed Queen in 1693, rebuilt in 1715 and renamed Royal George, again rebuilt in 1756, renamed Royal Anne this time, and broken up in 1767.

Charles Grymes ( 1693 – 1743 ) and Frances Jennings.

Karl XI also introduced Sweden's, and possibly the world's, first standard issue army uniform in 1693.

He moved to Deptford, England around 1667, and by 1693 had accepted commissions from the royal family and had been appointed as a master carver.

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

When in 1693 the neighbouring Cangamires invaded the country, the Portuguese accepted their failure and retreated to the coast.

A compromise was made in 1682, and Serle built eleven brick sets of chambers on three sides of the square between 1682 and 1693.

* Church of Santa Lucìa alla Badìa, a Baroque edifice built after the 1693 earthquake.

* Church of St. Benedict ( 16th century, restored after 1693 ).

In 1693 Glastonbury, Connecticut was founded and named after the English town from which some of the settlers had emigrated.

Chartered in 1679 as a parish of Portsmouth, it was incorporated in 1693 and named New Castle after the fort.

In 1872, the Lutherans established a local college at Blue Springs known as Mosheim Institute, after the German theologian, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim ( 1693 – 1755 ).

Image: Schoenbrunn Palace design II c1696. jpg | Second design, after 1693.

Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World ( 1693 ) is largely modeled after this book and its reports, particularly the material relating to the Mora witch trial of 1669.

1665 – 1690, died after 1693 ) was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England.

In 1693, shortly after the establishment of the University of Halle, he was appointed primary professor of medicine and natural philosophy.

The bishops designate to whom Bulls had been refused received them at length, in 1693, only after addressing to Pope Innocent XII a letter in which they disavowed everything that had been decreed in that assembly in regard to the ecclesiastical power and the pontifical authority.

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 ).

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.

Having proven their support for Catholic absolutism by their loyal support for James during the war, and because the Papacy supported the Jacobites after 1693, Irish Catholics increasingly faced discriminatory legislation in the Penal Laws that were passed by the predominantly loyalist and Protestant Parliament from 1695.

The Leipzig Opera traces its establishment to the year 1693, making it the third oldest opera venue in Europe after La Fenice ( Venice, Italy ) and the Hamburg State Opera ( Hamburg, Germany ).

A first, smaller edifice was quickly built after the 1693 earthquake, but it soon proved inadequate.

File: Ragusa-Chiesa-Anime-Purgatorio. JPG | The Church of the Souls of the Purgatory, one of the many Baroque edifices built after the 1693 earthquake.

His Histoire began to issue from the press in 1690 and his Mémoires in 1693, though the publication of both works was not completed until after his death.

Notable examples still in use include the organ at St. Pancratiuskirche, Neuenfelde, Hamburg ( completed in 1688, his largest two-manual instrument ); St. Jacobikirche, Hamburg ( perhaps the most famous surviving Schnitger organ, completed in 1693 ); St. Martinikerk, Groningen, the Netherlands ( 1692 ); St. Ludgerikirche, Norden ( 1688 ); St. Cosmae und Damianikirche, Stade ( Schnitger's first organ, completed in 1676 after the death of his teacher Berendt Huss ); St. Peter und Paulkirche, Cappel ( perhaps the most authentic of Schnitger's organs still in existence, originally in the Johanniskirche, Hamburg, 1680 ); and St. Michaeliskerk, Zwolle, the Netherlands ( completed by his son Franz Caspar after Schnitger's death ).

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.

He supported Richard Bentley, who lived in his household as a tutor for a number of years, from shortly after his graduation 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.