1694
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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).
Events of 1694
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.
July–December
- 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.
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.
Ongoing events
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 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (d. 1728)
- December 22 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
- See also Category: 1694 births.
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 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.