1693

January–March

• January 11 – The Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy, causing a devastating earthquake that kills 60,000 people in Sicily and Malta.
• January 22 – A total lunar eclipse is visible across North and South America.
• February 8 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a Royal charter.
• February 27 – The publication of the first women's magazine, titled The Ladies' Mercury, takes place in London. It is published by the Athenian Society.
• March 27 – Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after Sultan Ahmed II appoints him as the successor of Çalık Ali Pasha.

  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.
• 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 5 – The first performance of the opera Didon by French composer Henri Desmarets takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
• June 27 – Nine Years' War – Battle of Lagos off Portugal: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet.

  July–September

• July 17 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in New Zealand and across the Pacific Ocean.
• July 29 – Nine Years' War – Battle of Landen: William III of England is defeated by the French.
• August 21 – The Indian Ocean port of Pondicherry, capital of French India is captured by a 17-ship fleet from the Netherlands and 1,600 men under the command of Laurens Pit the Younger.
• September 9 – Francesco Invrea, King of Corsica, begins a two-year term as the Doge of the Republic of Genoa in Italy, succeeding Giovanni Battista Cattaneo Della Volta.
• September 10 – France begins the siege of the Spanish Netherlands fort of Charleroi.
• September 14 – King Louis XIV of France sends a letter to Pope Innocent XII announcing the rescission of the Declaration of the Clergy of France issued in 1682.
• September 23 – Manuel Afonso Nzinga a Nlenke, ruling as King Manuel I of the Kingdom of Kongo is executed on orders of the new king, Álvaro X.

  October–December

• October – William Congreve's comedy The Double-Dealer is first performed in London.
• October 4 – Battle of Marsaglia near Turin in the Duchy of Savoy: A French force under the command of General Nicolas Catinat defeats the Savoyard forces, leaving 10,000 dead or wounded, while sustaining only 1,000 casualties.
• October 11 – Charleroi falls to French forces.
• October 29 – The Great Storm changes the course of rivers and alters the coastline from Virginia to Long Island in America.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
• William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.
• English astronomer Edmond Halley studies records of births and deaths in Breslau, producing a life table consolidating year of birth and age at death. He uses this to work out the price of life annuities.
• Dimitrie Cantemir presents his Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât 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

January–March

• January 1 – Francesco Carlo Rusca, Swiss painter
• January 3
• * Giovanni Bianchi, Italian physician and zoologist
• * Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury
• January 12 – Queen Jeongseong, Queen Consort of Korea
• January 16 – Francesco Campora, Italian painter
• January 17 – Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Florida and Mexico
• January 19
• * Jonathan Rashleigh, politician
• * Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, French painter
• January 23 – Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, German mathematician
• January 26 – William Robinson, deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• January 28
• * Robert Sawyer Herbert, British Member of Parliament
• * Empress Anna of Russia, Empress of Russia
• * Gregor Werner, Austrian composer
• January 29 – Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, English peer and architect
• January 30 – Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Neuburg, Countess Palatine of Neuburg by birth, Duchess of Bavaria
• February 12 – Avdotya Chernysheva, Russian lady-in-waiting
• February 13 – José del Campillo, Spanish politician
• February 15 – Peter Schenk the Younger, German engraver and map publisher
• February 24
• * James Quin, English actor
• * Johann Jacob Rambach, German theologian
• March 2 – Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet, English politician
• March 5 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian
• March 6 – Edward Willes, English Anglican bishop and cryptanalyst
• March 7 – Pope Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church
• March 15 – Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, British politician
• March 16 – Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman
• March 17 – Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Grandmother of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria

  April–June

• April 1 – Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, British Countess
• April 3
• * George Edwards, English naturalist
• * John Harrison, English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer
• April 4 – John West, 1st Earl De La Warr, British general
• April 13 – Johann Georg Keyßler, German polymath
• April 16
• * Mary Alexander, British American merchant
• * Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish royal consort, Queen of Denmark-Norway
• April 20 – Daniel Brodhead II, American justice of the peace
• April 25 – Sir Charles Hotham, 5th Baronet, British diplomat
• April 26 – William Wollaston, British politician
• April 29 – Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow
• April 30 – Giuseppe Maria Feroni, Italian cardinal
• May 4 – Thomas Gent, Irish printer and writer
• May 9 – Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, English Earl
• May 10
• * John Fox, English biographer
• * Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, Irish peer and politician
• May 15 – Henry Winder, English chronologist
• May 24 – Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor
• May 31 – Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian painter
• June 1
• * Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat, chancellor of the Russian Empire
• * Johann Dietrich von Hülsen, German canon
• June 17
• * Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt and Obrist
• * Diego de Torres Villarroel, Spanish writer
• * Johann Georg Walch, German theologian
• June 19 – Christian August Hausen, German mathematician and physicist
• June 20 – Wilhelmina Maria Frederica of Rochlitz, Polish noble
• June 29 – Juan Bautista de Anza I, Spanish militar and explorer