Today in History for Year 1693

Months in Year 1693: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 13 of 13

Jan 11th - Mt Etna erupts, Sicily
Feb 6th - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
Feb 8th - William & Mary college is chartered in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (2nd in North America)
Feb 13th - College of William & Mary opens
Jun 27th - 1st sea battle of Lagos: England & Holland vs France
Jun 27th - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
Jul 4th - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
Jul 8th - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
Jul 25th - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
Jul 29th - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen/Neerwinden - France wins Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
Aug 4th - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne
Oct 4th - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
Oct 5th - Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 17 of 17

Jan 28th - Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia (1730-40) (2/7 NS)
Jan 28th - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer
Feb 4th - George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist (London Merchant)
Feb 7th - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]
Feb 24th - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
Mar 5th - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
Mar 7th - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
Mar 24th - John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
Apr 3rd - George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
Apr 16th - Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
Jun 17th - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
Jul 21st - Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, Engl minister of finance
Aug 8th - Laurent Belissen, composer
Aug 30th - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist
Sep 3rd - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
Nov 8th - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
Nov 30th - Christoph Forster, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 6th - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51
Feb 7th - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
Feb 13th - Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65
Mar 1st - Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
Apr 5th - Anne M L of Orleans, duchess (Grande Mademoiselle), dies at 65
Apr 9th - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
May 3rd - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
May 25th - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
Jun 2nd - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
Jul 12th - John Ashby, English admiral
Jul 13th - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
Jul 31st - Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
Sep 14th - Aert Jansz van Nes, [Young boer Jaep], lt-admiral, dies at 67
Sep 19th - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
Oct 1st - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
Oct 26th - Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71
Dec 13th - Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies
Dec 13th - Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82