1693

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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1690 1691 1692 – 1693 – 1694 1695 1696

1693 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1693 MDCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2446
Armenian calendar	1142 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6443
Balinese saka calendar	1614–1615
Bengali calendar	1100
Berber calendar	2643
English Regnal year	5 Will. & Mar. – 6 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar	2237
Burmese calendar	1055
Byzantine calendar	7201–7202
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4389 or 4329     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4390 or 4330
Coptic calendar	1409–1410
Discordian calendar	2859
Ethiopian calendar	1685–1686
Hebrew calendar	5453–5454
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1749–1750
- Shaka Samvat	1614–1615
- Kali Yuga	4793–4794
Holocene calendar	11693
Igbo calendar	693–694
Iranian calendar	1071–1072
Islamic calendar	1104–1105
Japanese calendar	Genroku 6 (元禄６年)
Javanese calendar	1616–1617
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4026
Minguo calendar	219 before ROC 民前219年
Nanakshahi calendar	225
Thai solar calendar	2235–2236
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1819 or 1438 or 666     — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1820 or 1439 or 667

Events

• January 11 – 1693 Sicily earthquake: Mount Etna erupts, causing a devastating earthquake that affects parts of Sicily and Malta.
• February 8 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England.

Religion

• Some members of the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland splits from the group to start the Amish.

Births

• February 7 – Empress Anna I of Russia (d. 1740)
• March 7 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
• March 24 – John Harrison, English clockmaker (d. 1776)