1695

Year '1695' ('MDCXCV') was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1695

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1695

January - June

★ January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703).

July - December

★ July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament.

★ August 8 - The Wren Building is started in Williamsburg, Virginia (completed in 1700).

★ December 31 - A window tax is imposed in England causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.

Undated

★ Russia declares war on Turkey.

★ Freezing winter in France - wine freezes in the glasses in Versailles.

★ £2 fine for swearing in England.

Births

★ February 2 - William Borlase, English naturalist (died 1772)

★ February 6 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1726)

★ April 8 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723)

★ May 2 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, French architect and painter (died 1766)

★ May 3 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (died 1771)

★ September 3 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (died 1764)

★ September 5 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (died 1770)

★ October 5 - John Glas, Scottish minister (died 1773)

★ November 10 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (died 1771)
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Deaths

★ January 4 - François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (born 1628)

★ February 6 - Ahmed II of Turkey (born 1643)

★ February 18 - Sir William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (born 1650)

★ March 5 - Henry Wharton, English writer (born 1664)

★ April 3 - Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (born c.1636)

★ April 5 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (born 1633)

★ April 13 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (born 1621)

★ April 17 - Sor Juana, Mexican writer (born c.1650)

★ April 27 - John Trenchard, English statesman (born 1640)

★ April 28 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (born 1621)

★ June 11 - André Félibien, French architect (born 1619)

★ July 8 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist (born 1629)

★ July 18 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1634)

★ August 6 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (born 1625)

★ November 16 - Pierre Nicole, French Jansensist (born 1625)

★ November 20 - Zumbi, Brazilian leader of a runaway slave colony (born 1655)

★ November 21 - Henry Purcell, English composer (born 1654)

★ November 22 - Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse (accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692), born 1618.

★ November 28 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (born 1632)

★ November 29 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (born 1619)

★ December 8 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (born 1625)

★ December 12 - Jacob Abendana, British rabbi (born 1630)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (born 1610)
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