1695
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Jan. 27: Mustafa II.

Year 1695 (MDCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1695

January - June

• 1695 was a particularly cold and wet year. Contemporary records claim that wine froze in the glasses in the Palace of Versailles.
• January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703).

July - December

• July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament.
• August 8 - The Wren Building is started in Williamsburg, Virginia (completed in 1700).
• December 31 - A window tax is imposed in England causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.

Undated

• Russia declares war on Turkey.
• £2 fine for swearing in England.
• After 23 years of construction, Spain completes Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida from foreign threats.
• English manufacturers call for an embargo on Indian cloth and silk weavers picket the House of Commons.
• The English Parliament, in failing to renew the Licensing of the Press Act 1662, puts an end to royal censorship of the printing presses.

Ongoing

• Nine Years' War

Births

• February 2 - William Borlase, English naturalist (died 1772).
• February 6 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1726).
• April 8 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (died 1723).
• May 2 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, French architect and painter (died 1766).
• May 3 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (died 1771).
• September 3 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (died 1764).
• September 5 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (died 1770).
• October 5 - John Glas, Scottish minister (died 1773).
• November 10 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (died 1771).

Deaths

• January 4 - François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (born 1628)
• February 6 - Ahmed II of Turkey (born 1643)
• February 18 - Sir William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (born 1650)
• March 5 - Henry Wharton, English writer (born 1664)
• April 3 - Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (born c.1636)
• April 5 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (born 1633)
• April 13 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (born 1621)
• April 17 - Sor Juana, Mexican writer (born c.1650)
• April 27 - John Trenchard, English statesman (born 1640)
• April 28 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (born 1621)
• June 11 - André Félibien, French architect (born 1619)
• July 8 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist (born 1629)
• July 18 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1634)
• August 6 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (born 1625)
• September - Thomas Tew, English pyrate
• November 16 - Pierre Nicole, French Jansensist (born 1625)
• November 20 - Zumbi, Brazilian leader of a runaway slave colony (born 1655)
• November 21 - Henry Purcell, English composer (born 1654)
• November 22 - Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse (accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692), born 1618.
• November 28 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (born 1632)
• November 29 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (born 1619)
• December 8 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (born 1625)
• December 12 - Jacob Abendana, British rabbi (born 1630)
• date unknown
  • Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (born 1610)