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1695

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Events

= January–March =

  • January 7 (December 28, 1694 O.S.) – The United Kingdom's last joint monarchy, the reign of husband-and-wife King William III and Queen Mary II comes to an end with the death of Queen Mary, at the age of 32. Princess Mary had been installed as the monarch along with her husband and cousin, Willem Hendrik von Oranje, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, in 1689 after King James II was deposed by Willem during the "Glorious Revolution".
  • January 14 (January 4 O.S.) – The Royal Navy warship HMS Nonsuch is captured near England's Isles of Scilly by the 48-gun French privateer Le Francois. Nonsuch is then sold to the French Navy and renamed Le Sans Pareil.Rif Winfield and Stephen S. Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786 Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (Pen & Sword, 2017) p. 1694William G. Gates, Ships of the British Navy: A Record of Heroism, Victory and Disaster (W. H. Long, 1905) p. 120
  • January 24 – Milan's Court Theater is destroyed in a fire.
  • January 27 – A flotilla of six Royal Navy warships under the command of Commodore James Killegrew aboard HMS Plymouth captures two French warships, the Content and the Trident, the day after the French ships had mistaken the English fleet to be a group of merchant ships to attack.
  • February 6 – Mustafa II (1664 – 1703) succeeds his uncle, Ahmed II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
  • March 5 – The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by Henry Purcell.
  • March 10 – Almost all French Army soldiers in a column of 1,300 troops, commanded by Brigadier General Urbain Le Clerc de Juigné, are killed or captured in the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas against a smaller Spanish Empire force led by Ramon de Sala i Saçala during the War of the Grand Alliance.
  • March 7 – John Trevor, Speaker of the English House of Commons, is expelled from the House by vote of the members, after being found guilty of accepting a bribe of 1000 pounds sterling from the City of London Corporation.
  • March 14 – Paul Foley is elected as the new Speaker of the House after the expulsion of John Trevor.
  • March 26 – John Hungerford is expelled from the English House of Commons when members vote to find him guilty of accepting a bribe in return for using his committee chairmanship to promote the pending Orphans Bill.

= April–June =

  • April 17 – The House of Commons of England decides not to renew the Licensing Order of 1643, and states its reasoning, beginning with "Because it revives, and re-enacts, a Law which in no-wise answered the End for which it was made"."Appendix G: Refusal of the House of Commons to Renew the Licensing Act (1695)", Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Ccensorship in Tudor and Stuart England, by Dorothy Auchter (Greenwood Press, 2001) p. 389 The lifting of censorship creates a more open society, and an explosion of print results. Within 30 years, the number of printing houses in England increases from 20 to 103.Alvin B. Kernan, "Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print" (Princeton University Press, 2021) p. 59{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=198–200|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
  • April 22 – Sürmeli Ali Pasha is fired from his position as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after coming into a disagreement with the new Sultan, Mustafa II. Sürmeli is initially sent into exile, but executed on the Sultan's orders on May 29.
  • April 27 – Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700): Russia begins the Azov campaigns (1695–96) against the Ottoman Empire, with 31,000 troops departing to the Ottoman fortress at Azov on the Don River."Azov campaigns of 1695–1696", The Black Sea Encyclopedia (Springer Berlin, 2014) p. 71
  • May 18 – The 7.8 magnitude Linfen earthquake in Shanxi Province, Qing Dynasty kills over 50,000 people.{{#invoke:Cite journal||author1=Yueren Xu |author2=Honglin He |author3=Qidong Deng |author4=Mark B. Allen |author5=Haoyue Sun |author6=Lisi Bi |title=The CE 1303 Hongdong earthquake and the Huoshan Piedmont Fault, Shanxi Graben: Implications for magnitude limits of normal fault earthquakes |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |date=2018 |volume=123 |issue=4 |pages=3098–3121 |doi=10.1002/2017JB014928 |bibcode=2018JGRB..123.3098X |s2cid=135046043 |url=https://dro.dur.ac.uk/24519/2/24519.pdf}}
  • June 11 – An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across South America.{{#invoke:Cite web||url=http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0231695/|title=Annular Eclipse of the Sun: 1695 June 11|website=astro.ukho.gov.uk|accessdate=September 27, 2022}}
  • June 24 – The Commission of Enquiry into the Massacre of Glencoe in Scotland in 1692 reports to the Parliament of England, blaming Sir John Dalrymple, Secretary of State over Scotland, and declares that a soldier should refuse to obey a "command against the law of nature".

= July–September =

= October–December =

  • October 11 – King William III of England dissolves Parliament in the wake of a scandal involving former Speaker of the House of Commons John Trevor and other Tory MPs.
  • October 25 – The 48-gun English Navy ship HMS Berkeley Castle is captured by the French Navy.
  • November 22 – The new Parliament, with 513 members of the House of Commons is opened by King William III. Commons is composed of 257 Whigs (who hold a majority of one), 203 Tories and 53 members of other parties or independents.
  • December 6 – A total eclipse of the sun is visible across the Middle East and western Asia.{{#invoke:Cite web||url=http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0411695/|title=Total Eclipse of the Sun: 1695 December 06|website=astro.ukho.gov.uk|accessdate=September 27, 2022}}
  • December 31 – A window tax is imposed in England. Some windows are bricked up to avoid it.

= Date unknown =

  • English manufacturers call for an embargo on Indian cloth, and silk weavers picket the House of Commons of England.
  • A £2 fine is imposed for swearing in England.
  • After 23 years of construction, Spain completes Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida, from foreign threats.
  • After many years of construction, the Potala Palace in Lhasa is completed.
  • Gold is discovered in Brazil.
  • Johanne Nielsdatter is executed for witchcraft, the last such confirmed execution in Norway.
  • In Amsterdam, the bank Wed. Jean Deutz & Sn. floats the first sovereign bonds on the local market. The scheme is designed to fund a 1.5 million guilder loan to the Holy Roman Emperor. From this date on, European leaders commonly take advantage of the low interest rates available in the Dutch Republic, and borrow several hundred millions on the Dutch capital market.{{#invoke:Cite journal||last=Eeghen|first=I. H. van|title=Buitenlandse manopolies van de Amstersamse kooplieden in de tweedee helft van de zeventiende eeuw|journal=Jaarboek Amstelodamum|year=1961|volume=53|pages=176–184}}
  • A large unidentified tropical volcanic eruption causes colder temperatures, crop failure, food shortage and mortality in north-western Europe.{{#invoke:Cite journal||journal=Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research|volume=389|date=January 1, 2020|title=Complexity in crisis: The volcanic cold pulse of the 1690s and the consequences of Scotland's failure to cope |last1=D'Arrigo|first1=Rosanne|last2=Klinger|first2=Patrick|last3=Newfield|first3=Timothy|last4=Rydval|first4=Miloš|last5=Wilson|first5=Rob|issn=0377-0273|doi=10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106746|bibcode=2020JVGR..38906746D }}
  • A naval skirmish occurs between English and Swedish ships en-route to Portugal.{{Cite book |last=Wolke |first=Lars Ericson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3lVBgAAQBAJ&dq=Livland+Per+Olsson+1695&pg=PT55 |title=Lasse i Gatan: Kaparkriget och det svenska stormaktsväldets fall |date=2015-01-22 |publisher=Svenska Historiska Media Förlag AB |isbn=978-91-87031-94-6 |language=sv}}
  • The Great Famine of 1695–1697 begins as the Great Famine of Estonia (1695–97) in Swedish Estonia and spreads across Finland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden, while the "seven ill years" of famine in Scotland are ongoing.

Births

File:William Borlase (1695–1772) cropped.jpg born 2 February]]

File:Rumilly after Tocqué - Presumed portrait of Françoise de Graffigny - Versailles.jpg born 11 February]]

File:Hörner-Peltske.jpg born 11 February]]

File:Retrato do Infante D. António Irmão de D. João V.jpg born 15 March]]

File:GovWilliamGreeneRI.jpg born 16 March]]

File:Trew-portrait.jpg born 16 April]]

File:Henri de Pitot.jpg born 3 May]]

File:Sir Peter Halkett, 2nd Baronet of Pitfirrane by Hans Hysing.jpg born 21 June]]

File:Mademoiselle de Charolais (Louise Anne de Bourbon-Condé, 1695-1758) by Alexandre François Caminade (Versailles).jpg born 23 June]]

File:Meytens, Martin van - Self-portrait - 1740s.jpg born 24 June]]

File:Cocchiantonio.jpg born 3 August]]

File:1stLordSandys.jpg born 10 August]]

File:Pierre Gobert, Gallery of Beauties, Nymphenburg - Duchesse de Berry.jpg born 20 August]]

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Deaths

File:Ahmet II.jpg died 6 February]]

File:Phips portrait.jpg died 18 February]]

File:Ludvika Karalina Radzivił. Людвіка Караліна Радзівіл (1681).jpg died 25 March]]

File:Lambert van Haven portrait.jpg died 9 May]]

File:Prins Christian.jpg died 27 June]]

File:Christiaan Huygens-painting.jpeg died 8 July]]

File:Francois de Harlay de Champvallon 01.jpg died 6 August]]

File:Huang Zong-Xi.jpg died 12 August]]

File:Christopher-Merret.jpg died 19 August]]

File:Enku_Buddha_Tokyo.JPG died 24 August]]

File:Joh Wilhelm Baier theol..jpg died 19 October]]

File:Antônio Parreiras - Zumbi 2.jpg died 20 November]]

File:Henry Purcell Closterman.jpg died 21 November]]

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References

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