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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
July 12: The Siege of Namur begins in Belgium.
1695 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1695
MDCXCV
Ab urbe condita2448
Armenian calendar1144
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԴ
Assyrian calendar6445
Balinese saka calendar1616–1617
Bengali calendar1102
Berber calendar2645
English Regnal yearWill. & Mar. – 8 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar2239
Burmese calendar1057
Byzantine calendar7203–7204
Chinese calendar甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
4392 or 4185
    — to —
乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4393 or 4186
Coptic calendar1411–1412
Discordian calendar2861
Ethiopian calendar1687–1688
Hebrew calendar5455–5456
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1751–1752
 - Shaka Samvat1616–1617
 - Kali Yuga4795–4796
Holocene calendar11695
Igbo calendar695–696
Iranian calendar1073–1074
Islamic calendar1106–1107
Japanese calendarGenroku 8
(元禄8年)
Javanese calendar1618–1619
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4028
Minguo calendar217 before ROC
民前217年
Nanakshahi calendar227
Thai solar calendar2237–2238
Tibetan calendar阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
1821 or 1440 or 668
    — to —
阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
1822 or 1441 or 669

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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  • 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.[14]
  • December 31 – A window tax is imposed in England.[9] Some windows are bricked up to avoid it.

Date unknown

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Births

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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

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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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

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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References

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  1. ^ Rif Winfield and Stephen S. Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786 Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (Pen & Sword, 2017) p. 1694
  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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c 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. ^ "256 (Svenska folket genom tiderna / 5. Den karolinska tiden)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). Retrieved August 31, 2024.
  12. ^ Love Dean, Lighthouses of the Florida Keys (Pineapple Press, 1998) p. 131
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ "Total Eclipse of the Sun: 1695 December 06". astro.ukho.gov.uk. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  15. ^ Eeghen, I. H. van (1961). "Buitenlandse manopolies van de Amstersamse kooplieden in de tweedee helft van de zeventiende eeuw". Jaarboek Amstelodamum. 53: 176–184.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ Wolke, Lars Ericson (January 22, 2015). Lasse i Gatan: Kaparkriget och det svenska stormaktsväldets fall (in Swedish). Svenska Historiska Media Förlag AB. ISBN 978-91-87031-94-6.