Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1691 1692 1693 – 1694 – 1695 1696 1697

1694 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1694 (MDCXCIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1694 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1694

[edit] January–June

• February 5 – The ship Ridderschap van Holland is lost at sea after it departs the Cape of Good Hope, but does not arrive at Batavia.
• February 6 – The colony Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil is destroyed.
• 1 March – The HMS Sussex treasure fleet (13 ships) is shipwrecked off Gibraltar with the loss of approximately 1,200 lives.

[edit] July–December

1694 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1694 MDCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2447
Armenian calendar	1143 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-150 – -149
Bengali calendar	1101
Berber calendar	2644
Buddhist calendar	2238
Burmese calendar	1056
Byzantine calendar	7202 – 7203
Chinese calendar	癸酉年十二月初六日 (4330/4390-12-6) — to — 甲戌年十一月十五日 (4331/4391-11-15)
Coptic calendar	1410 – 1411
Ethiopian calendar	1686 – 1687
Hebrew calendar	5454 – 5455
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1749 – 1750
- Shaka Samvat	1616 – 1617
- Kali Yuga	4795 – 4796
Holocene calendar	11694
Iranian calendar	1072 – 1073
Islamic calendar	1105 – 1106
Japanese calendar	Genroku 7 (元禄7年)
Korean calendar	4027
Thai solar calendar	2237
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• 27 July – The Bank of England is founded through Royal Charter by the Whig-dominated Parliament to raise capital by offering safe and steady returns of interest guaranteed by future taxes. A total of £1.2 million is raised for the war effort against Louis XIV by the end of the year to establish the first-ever National Debt.
• 5 September – The Great Fire of Warwick.
• December – Thomas Tenison becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
• 22 December – The Triennial Bill becomes law.
• 28 December – Queen Mary II of England (1662–1694) dies of smallpox, leaving her husband King William III to rule alone but without an heir. Since he is also without a royal hostess, Mary's sister Princess Anne is summoned back to court. Having been banished after an unseemly row with the queen, she is now nominated as the official heiress.

[edit] Undated

• The Lao empire of Lan Xang unofficially ends.
• Notorious voyage of the slaver Hannibal (ship), ending with the death of nealy half of the 692 slaves aboard.

[edit] Births

• April 25 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
• June 4 – François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
• June 26 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (d. 1768)
• July 4 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
• August 5 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
• August 8 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
• August 26 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
• September 22 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (d. 1773)
• September 25 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
• October 26 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
• November 21 – Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
• November 28 – Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen (d. 1728)
• December 22 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)

See also Category: 1694 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• January 7 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b. c.1618)
• February 4 – Natalia Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
• April 27 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
• June 17 – Philip Cardinal Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
• August 8 – Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
• October 15 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
• November 22 – John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
• November 25 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
• November 28 – Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
• November 29 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
• December 2 – Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
• December 28 – Queen Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1662)

See also Category: 1694 deaths.