1694

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Years: 1691 1692 1693 - 1694 - 1695 1696 1697

Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1694 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

• February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed.
• July 27 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
• December 22 - The Triennial Bill became law.
• December 28 - Queen Mary II of England dies; King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland is now sole ruler after his co-ruler's death.
• Much of the town of Warwick, England destroyed by fire.
• The Lao empire of Lan Xang unofficially ends.

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 Great Britain (d. 1754)
• October 26 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
• November 8 - Leonhard Trautsch, German composer (d. 1762)
• November 21 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
• December 22 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1768)

Deaths

• January 2 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• January 7 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
• February 4 - Nataliya Kyrillovna 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)