1695

This article is about the year 1695. For the number, see 1695 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1692 1693 1694 – 1695 – 1696 1697 1698

1695 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1695 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1695 MDCXCV
Ab urbe condita	2448
Armenian calendar	1144 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	6445
Bengali calendar	1102
Berber calendar	2645
English Regnal year	7 Will. & Mar. – 8 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar	2239
Burmese calendar	1057
Byzantine calendar	7203–7204
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4391 or 4331     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4392 or 4332
Coptic calendar	1411–1412
Discordian calendar	2861
Ethiopian calendar	1687–1688
Hebrew calendar	5455–5456
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1751–1752
- Shaka Samvat	1617–1618
- Kali Yuga	4796–4797
Holocene calendar	11695
Igbo calendar	695–696
Iranian calendar	1073–1074
Islamic calendar	1106–1107
Japanese calendar	Genroku 8 (元禄８年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4028
Minguo calendar	217 before ROC 民前217年
Thai solar calendar	2237–2238

February 6: Mustafa II.

1695 (MDCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1695th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 695th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1690s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1695 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. It was also a particularly cold and wet year. Contemporary records claim that wine froze in the glasses in the Palace of Versailles.

Events

January–June

• February 6 – Mustafa II (1695–1703) succeeds Ahmed II as Ottoman Emperor.
• April – The Parliament of England decides not to renew the Licensing Order of 1643 requiring press censorship.
• June 24 – 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–December

• July 17 – The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland.
• August 8 – The Wren Building is started in Williamsburg, Virginia (completed in 1700).
• August 13–15 – Nine Years' War: Bombardment of Brussels by French troops.
• September 1 – Nine Years' War: France surrenders Namur in the Spanish Netherlands to forces of the Grand Alliance led by King William III of England following the 2-month Siege of Namur.
• September 7 – English pirate Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to put an end to all English trading in India.
• December 31 – A window tax is imposed in England. Some windows are bricked up to avoid it.

Date unknown

• Russia declares war on Turkey.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• February 2 – William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
• February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
• March 9 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish scholar and writer (d.1772)
• April 8 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (d. 1723)
• May 2 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (d. 1766)
• May 3 – Henri Pitot, French engineer (d. 1771)
• June 6 – Adriaan Valckenier, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741 (d. 1751)
• September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)
• September 5 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
• October 5 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
• November 10 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)

Deaths

• January 4 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (b. 1628)
• February 6 – Ahmed II of Turkey (b. 1643)
• February 18 – Sir William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
• March 5 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
• April 3 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. c. 1636)
• April 5 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (b. 1633)
• April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer noted for his fables (b. 1621)
• April 17 – Sor Juana, Mexican writer (b. c. 1650)
• April 27 – John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
• April 28 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
• June 11 – André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
• July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light (b. 1629)
• July 18 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
• August 6 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (b. 1625)
• August 12 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (b. 1610)
• September – Thomas Tew, English pirate
• November 16 – Pierre Nicole, French Jansensist (b. 1625)
• November 20 – Zumbi, Brazilian leader of a runaway slave colony (b. 1655)
• November 21 – Henry Purcell, English composer whose works include the opera Dido and Aeneas (b. 1659)
• November 22 – Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse (accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692), b. 1618
• November 28 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
• November 29 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
• December 8 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
• December 12 – Jacob Abendana, British rabbi (b. 1630)