1693 in England

Events from the year 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 (27 June New Style) – Nine Years' War: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet at the Battle of Lagos off Portugal.
 * 19 July (29 July New Style) – Nine Years' War: The Dutch-English army led personally by King William III of England is defeated by the French (with Irish Jacobite mercenaries) 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 (founded 1672) 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 (died 1739)
 * 24 February – James Quin, actor (died 1766)
 * 24 March – John Harrison, clockmaker (died 1776)
 * 3 April – George Edwards, naturalist (died 1773)
 * 21 July – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1768)
 * 21 September – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1768)

Deaths

 * 2 June – John Wildman, soldier and politician (born c. 1621)
 * 12 July – John Ashby, admiral (born c. 1640)
 * 24 November – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1617)