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
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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)
