1693

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1693 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1693
MDCXCIII
Ab urbe condita2446
Armenian calendar1142
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԲ
Assyrian calendar6443
Balinese saka calendar1614–1615
Bengali calendar1100
Berber calendar2643
English Regnal year5 Will. & Mar. – 6 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar2237
Burmese calendar1055
Byzantine calendar7201–7202
Chinese calendar壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4389 or 4329
    — to —
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4390 or 4330
Coptic calendar1409–1410
Discordian calendar2859
Ethiopian calendar1685–1686
Hebrew calendar5453–5454
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1749–1750
 - Shaka Samvat1614–1615
 - Kali Yuga4793–4794
Holocene calendar11693
Igbo calendar693–694
Iranian calendar1071–1072
Islamic calendar1104–1105
Japanese calendarGenroku 6
(元禄６年)
Javanese calendar1616–1617
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4026
Minguo calendar219 before ROC
民前219年
Nanakshahi calendar225
Thai solar calendar2235–2236
Tibetan calendar阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
1819 or 1438 or 666
    — to —
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
1820 or 1439 or 667
January 11: Etna erupts.

1693 (MDCXCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1693rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 693rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1693, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 4 – Anne Palles becomes the last accused witch to be executed for witchcraft in Denmark, after having been convicted of using powers of sorcery. King Christian V accepts her plea not to be burned alive, and she is beheaded before her body is set afire.
  • April 5 – The Order of Saint Louis, the first medal to be awarded in France to military personnel who are not members of nobility, is created by order of King Louis XIV, and named after his ancestor, King Louis IX.
  • April 28 – The 90-gun English Royal Navy warship HMS Windsor Castle is wrecked beyond repair on the Goodwin Sands.
  • April – Tituba, a slave who had been convicted at the Salem witch trials of practicing witchcraft after making a confession, is released from jail in Boston after 13 months when an unknown purchaser pays her jail fees. [1]
  • May 18 – Forces of Louis XIV of France attack Heidelberg, capital of the Electorate of the Palatinate.
  • May 22 – Heidelberg is taken by the invading French forces; on May 23 Heidelberg Castle is surrendered, after which the French blow up its towers using mines.
  • June 27 – Nine Years' War – Battle of Lagos off Portugal: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet.

July–September[]

October–December[]

  • October 4 – The Battle of Marsaglia is fought near Turin in the Duchy of Savoy, with a French force under the command of General Nicolas Catinat defeating the Savoyard forces and leaving 10,000 dead or wounded while sustaining only 1,000 casualties.
  • October 11 – Charleroi falls to French forces.
  • October – William Congreve's comedy The Double-Dealer is first performed in London.[2][3]
  • November 7 – King Charles II of Spain issues a royal edict providing sanctuary in Spanish Florida for escaped slaves from the English colony of South Carolina. [4] [5]
  • November 14 – General Santaji Ghorpade of the Maratha Empire in India is defeated by General Himmat Khan of the Mughal Empire near Vikramhalli, and retreats. A week later, after regrouping his troops, Santaji defeats Himmat at their next encounter.
  • November 21 – The 46-gun Royal Navy frigate HMS Mordaunt founders off of the coast of Cuba.
  • November 29 – A fleet of 30 English and Dutch ships captures the French port of Saint-Malo
  • December 16 – Diego de Vargas, Spanish colonial governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (now the area around the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, returns to the walled city of Santa Fe and requests the Pueblo people to accept the authority of the colonial government. Negotiations fail and a siege begins on December 29. The Pueblo defenders surrender the next day and the 70 rebels are executed soon after. The 400 civilian women and children are made slaves and distributed to the Spanish colonists. [6]
  • December 27 – The new 80-gun English Navy warship HMS Sussex departs Portsmouth on its maiden voyage, escorting a fleet of 48 warships and 166 merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea. The fleet runs into a storm on February 27, 1694, and on March 1, Sussex and 12 other warships sink, along with a cargo of gold.

Date unknown[]

  • China concentrates all its foreign trade on Canton; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else.
  • A religious schism takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite Amish sect.[7]
  • The Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy.
  • The Academia Operosorum Labacensium is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Financier Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank (founded 1672) from Cheapside to Fleet Street in London.
  • Italian barber Giovanni Paolo Feminis creates a perfume water called Aqua Admirabilis, earliest known form of eau de Cologne.[8]
  • John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.[9]
  • William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.[3]
  • Dimitrie Cantemir presents his Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters) to Sultan Ahmed II, which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of Ottoman music, and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time, in an alphabetical notation system he invented.

Births[]

John Harrison

Deaths[]

Mehmed IV

References[]

  1. ^ "Tituba: The Slave of Salem", by Rebecca Beatrice Books, History of Massachusetts blog
  2. ^ Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Vol. 4. p. 542.
  3. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 198–200. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ Alejandra Dubcovsky, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South (Harvard University Press, 2016)
  5. ^ Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette, American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Chicago Review Press, 2015)
  6. ^ Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991) p. 145
  7. ^ Kraybill, Donald B. (2001). Anabaptist World USA. Herald Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 0-8361-9163-3.
  8. ^ Pepe, Tracy (2000). So, What's All the Sniff About?. p. 46. ISBN 9780968707609. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  9. ^ Cunningham, Hugh. "Re-inventing childhood". open2.net. Open University. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
  10. ^ John W. Jordan; LL. D. (1911). Colonial families of Philadelphia. Рипол Классик. p. 1265. ISBN 978-5-88023-355-7.
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