1695

1695

1695

Items of interest from year 1695


1695 (MDCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday 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. As of the start of 1695, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

  • October 11King 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.[13]
  • December 31 – A window tax is imposed in England.[9] Some windows are bricked up to avoid it.

Date unknown

Births

William Borlase born 2 February
Françoise de Graffigny born 11 February
Abraham Pelt born 11 February
Infante António of Portugal born 15 March
William Greene (colonial governor) born 16 March
Christoph Jacob Trew born 16 April
Henri Pitot born 3 May
Sir Peter Halkett, 2nd Baronet born 21 June
Louise Anne de Bourbon born 23 June
Martin van Meytens born 24 June
Antonio Cocchi born 3 August
Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys born 10 August
Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans born 20 August

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Deaths

Ahmed II died 6 February
William Phips died 18 February
Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł died 25 March
Lambert van Haven died 9 May
Prince Christian of Denmark (1675–1695) died 27 June
Christiaan Huygens died 8 July
François de Harlay de Champvallon died 6 August
Huang Zongxi died 12 August
Christopher Merret died 19 August
Enkū died 24 August
Johann Wilhelm Baier died 19 October
Zumbi died 20 November
Henry Purcell died 21 November

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December


References

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  2. William G. Gates, Ships of the British Navy: A Record of Heroism, Victory and Disaster (W. H. Long, 1905) p. 120
  3. "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
  4. Alvin B. Kernan, "Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print" (Princeton University Press, 2021) p. 59
  5. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 198–200. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. "Azov campaigns of 1695–1696", The Black Sea Encyclopedia (Springer Berlin, 2014) p. 71
  7. Yueren Xu; Honglin He; Qidong Deng; Mark B. Allen; Haoyue Sun; Lisi Bi (2018). "The CE 1303 Hongdong earthquake and the Huoshan Piedmont Fault, Shanxi Graben: Implications for magnitude limits of normal fault earthquakes" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 123 (4): 3098–3121. Bibcode:2018JGRB..123.3098X. doi:10.1002/2017JB014928. S2CID 135046043.
  8. "Annular Eclipse of the Sun: 1695 June 11". astro.ukho.gov.uk. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  9. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 287. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  10. "Peter I", by Robert Nisbet Bain, in The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Volumbe XXI (Cambridge University Press, 1911) p. 289
  11. Love Dean, Lighthouses of the Florida Keys (Pineapple Press, 1998) p. 131
  12. J. J. Colledge and Ben Warlow, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (Seaforth, 2021) p. 482
  13. "Total Eclipse of the Sun: 1695 December 06". astro.ukho.gov.uk. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  14. Eeghen, I. H. van (1961). "Buitenlandse manopolies van de Amstersamse kooplieden in de tweedee helft van de zeventiende eeuw". Jaarboek Amstelodamum. 53: 176–184.
  15. D'Arrigo, Rosanne; Klinger, Patrick; Newfield, Timothy; Rydval, Miloš; Wilson, Rob (January 1, 2020). "Complexity in crisis: The volcanic cold pulse of the 1690s and the consequences of Scotland's failure to cope". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 389. Bibcode:2020JVGR..38906746D. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106746. ISSN 0377-0273.

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