1693 in England

Incumbents

• Monarchs – William III and Mary II

Events

• 8 February – the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England.
• March – William Congreve's first play, the comedy The Old Bachelor, is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
• 17 June – Nine Years' War: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet at the Battle of Lagos off Portugal.
• 19 July – Nine Years' War: The Dutch-English army led personally by King William III of England is defeated by the French at the Battle of Landen near Neerwinden in Flemish Brabant.
• October – Congreve's comedy The Double Dealer is first performed at Drury Lane.

Undated

• Bromsgrove School endowed by Sir Thomas Cookes.
• The Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel is discovered at North Petherton in Somerset.
• Financier Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank from Cheapside to Fleet Street in London.

Publications

• 27 February – 17 March – John Dunton publishes The Ladies' Mercury, the first periodical specifically for women.
• John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
• William Penn's proposal for European federation Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.Vertue Rewarded – anonymous Irish novel, printed in London

Births

• 4 February – George Lillo, playwright
• 24 February – James Quin, actor
• 24 March – John Harrison, clockmaker
• 3 April – George Edwards, naturalist
• 21 July – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain
• 21 September – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury

Deaths

• 2 June – John Wildman, soldier and politician
• 12 July – John Ashby, admiral
• 24 November – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury