History
1693
General
Population: 626 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Congreve (comedy), La Fontaine (fables), Edmund Halley (morality), Leibniz (diplomats), John Locke (foreign languages),
Cotton Mather Winders of the Invisible World, WIlliam Penn (peace in Europe)
Art includes Kneller "Dr. Burney"
Music includes Alessandro Scarlatti "Teodora" opera
- Science: John Ray discusses biblical understanding in lieu of fossil evidence
- Deaths: Artist Willem Kalf, Artist Nicolaes Maes, Novelist and Comtesse Marie-Madeline de La Fayette,
Americas
- Jamaica: Kingston founded to replace Port Royal as capital
Europe
- General: Battle of Lagos – French defeat William III's English merchant fleet at Neerwinden
- England: National Debt begins
- France: French settle Heidelberg for second time (1688)
Louis XIV begins peace policy – reconciliation with the Vatican
Famine (noted by Voltaire)
- Italian States: Earthquake in Catania (Sicily) and Naples kills around 100,000
Also possible eruption of Mt. Etna
Secret society "Knights of the Apocalypse" founded to defend the church against the antichrist
East
- Massachusetts: Remainder of Salem Witchcraft trial accused released
South
- Carolinas: Carolina divided into North and South
- Virginia: College of William and Mary founded
West and Pacific
- New Mexico: Governor Ponce de Leon completes reconquest of New Mexico for Spain