History
1695
General
Population: 630 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Congreve Love for Love, Nikolaes Heinsiur (Dutch novel), John Locke The Reasonableness of Christianity,
Music includes Purcell "The Indian Queen"
- Science: English botanist isolates "Epsom salts" from North Down springs
John Woodward writes about Earth's natural history
- Technology: Fuillaume Amontonos invents pendant barometer
- Deaths: Painter Pierre Mignard, Poet Jean de la Fontaine, Author Dorothy Osborne, Mathematician Christian Huygens, Composer Henry Purcell,
Ahmad II of Turkey, Poet Henry Vaughan, Artist Melchoir d'Hondedoeter, First female American poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz,
Americas
- Antilles: Hurricane in Martinique sinks 600 French ships
Europe
- England: William III takes Namur after serving with his army in Holland since May
End of government press censorship
Window tax started
Wren designes Morden College in London
- German States: U of Berlin founded
- Russia: Russo-Turkish War – Peter the Great returns to Moscow having failed to take Azov
- Scotland: Royal Bank of Scotland founded
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Death of Ahmad II of Turkey – succeeded by Mustafa II
South
- South Carolina: Rev. Samuel Thomas establishes school for African Americans