1695 Totally Explained

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).

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.

After 23 years of construction, Spain completes Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida from foreign threats.

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) ť See also .

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)

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Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (born 1610) ť See also .

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