History
1694
General
Population: 628 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Congreve (comedy), Dictionnaire de l'Academie Française written
Art includes Kneller "Hampton Court Beauties"
Music includes Percel (music for St. Cecilia's Day)
- Science: Book about plants written by German botanist Rudolf Camerarius
- Deaths: Mary Queen of England, Haiku poet Basho Matsuo,
U of Halle founded,
Americas
- Barbados: Hurricane sweeps 26 British merchants out to sea
Europe
- England: Bank of England founded as a result of war with France and housing taxed monies
Mary of England dies of smallpox and William of England faces management crisis
English fleet bombards Dieppe Le Havre and Dunkirk
Triennial Bill providing for new Parliamentary election every third year
Sir Christopher Wren creates Greenwich Hospital
Salt tax doubles
- German States: Augustus the Strong named Elector of Saxony
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach begins building Castle Schonbrunn
Middle East
- Persia: Hussain becomes Shah