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Calendar year
May 27 : The French Army devastates Spanish troops at the
Battle of Torroella after taking advantage of a fog.
1694 (
MDCXCIV ) was a
common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Monday of the
Julian calendar , the 1694th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 694th year of the
2nd millennium , the 94th year of the
17th century , and the 5th year of the
1690s decade. As of the start of 1694, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 16 –
Francesco Morosini , the
Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of
Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the
Morean War .
January 18 –
Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France.
January 21 (January 11 O.S.) – The
Kiev Academy , now the national university of
Ukraine , receives official recognition by Tsar
Ivan V of Russia .
January 28 –
Pirro e Demetrio , an opera by
Alessandro Scarlatti , is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London.
January 29 – French missionary
Jean-Baptiste Labat arrives in the "New World", landing at the Caribbean island of
Martinique .
February 5 – The ship
Ridderschap van Holland is
lost at sea , having departed the
Cape of Good Hope with a crew of 300, with a destination of
Batavia (now Jakarta in Indonesia), normally a voyage of two months. It never arrives and is never seen again.
February 6 – The colony of
Quilombo dos Palmares , created by rebel African slaves in
Brazil , is destroyed by the
bandeirantes , colonial troops under the command of
Domingos Jorge Velho . After a successful attack on its capital,
Cerca do Macaco , the last King of Dos Palmares,
Zumbi , flees after a reign of more than 13 years, but is later captured and executed.
February 26 –
Silvestro Valier is elected as the new
Doge of Venice to replace the late
Francesco Morosini
March 1 – The
HMS Sussex treasure fleet of thirteen ships is wrecked in the Mediterranean off
Gibraltar , with the loss of approximately 1,200 lives.
March 8 – The
Casa da Moeda do Brasil is formed by
Peter II of Portugal .
April–June
April 2 –
Sheikh Yusuf , exiled by the administrators of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), arrives at the
Dutch Cape Colony on the ship De Voetboog , at what is now
Cape Town ,
South Africa , along with two wives, two concubines and 12 children. Resettled by the colonial government at a farm in Zandvliet, the Sheikh introduces
Islam to
South Africa .
April 7 – The English Navy's 40-gun warship,
HMS Ruby , captures the French
privateer
Entreprenant in battle. The confiscated ship is renamed HMS Ruby Prize .
April 12 – The French ship Diligente , commanded by
René Duguay-Trouin , covers the escape of a convoy of ships that he is escorting, but then is surrounded and attacked by six Royal Navy ships led by
David Mitchell . Most of the Diligente crew is lost in the battle, and Duguay-Trouin is captured.
April 13 – The largest volcanic eruption of
Mount Vesuvius since 1631 takes place, with lava flows towards both
San Giorgio a Cremano and
Torre del Greco , after explosions in the crater that began April 5. Around April 20, ash falls are experienced as far away as
Calabria .
[1]
April 27 –
Frederick Augustus of Wettin , later known as "Augustus the Strong" and the future King of Poland, becomes the new
Elector of Saxony upon the death of his 25-year-old older brother,
John George IV
May 27 – Taking advantage of a fog, the French Army, with 24,000 troops, fights the
Battle of Torroella against an equally large Spanish Army force on the banks of the
Ter in Spain, near the city of
Girona during the
Nine Years' War . The Spaniards suffer 3,000 casualties, while the French sustain 500.
June 22 – An annular
solar eclipse is visible across North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
[2]
June 24 – The
Tunisian–Algerian War begins as Algerian troops cross into Tunisia.
[3]
June 29 – The
Battle of Texel is fought near the Dutch island of
Texel , one of the
West Frisian Islands . The French Navy force of 8 ships, commanded by
Jean Bart , locates and rescues three French ships that had been captured by the
Dutch Republic in late May. Bart fights a larger force commanded by
Hidde Sjoerds de Vries , who dies of his wounds after being captured.
July–September
July 27 – The
Bank of England is founded through
Royal charter by the
Whig -dominated
Parliament of England , following a proposal by Scottish merchant
William Paterson to raise capital, by offering safe and steady returns of interest guaranteed by future taxes. A total of £1.2 million is raised for the war effort against
Louis XIV of France by the end of the year, to establish the first-ever
government debt .
August 6 – The coronation of
Sultan Husayn of the
Safavid dynasty as the
Shah of Persia takes place in
Isfahan , eight days after the death of his father
Suleiman I .
August 24 – The
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française , the first official dictionary of the French language, is presented by
Jacques de Tourreil and Academy members on behalf of the
Académie française to
King Louis XIV .
[4]
[5]
September 5 – The
Great Fire of Warwick breaks out in England and destroys half the town. Donors raise £110,000 toward disaster relief, with Queen Anne contributing £1,000.
[6]
September 8 – The
1694 Irpinia–Basilicata earthquake causes widespread severe damage and over 6,000 deaths in the Kingdom of Naples.
September 27 – A hurricane hits
Carlisle Bay, Barbados , sinking 27 British ships and resulting in 3,000 casualties.
[7]
October–December
October 19 – A major windstorm begins and continues for several days, spreading the
Culbin Sands over a large area of farmland in the
Scottish Highlands in the
County of Moray and burying the now-abandoned village of Culbin.
[8]
October 23 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
October 25 – Queen
Mary II of England founds the
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich .
[9]
November 12 – The Army of
Algeria captures
Tunis , the capital of
Tunisia , after a
siege of three months , bringing an end to the
Tunisian–Algerian War .
Mohamed Bey El Mouradi , the
Bey of Tunis , flees southward while Prince Muhammad ben Cheker of Tunisia becomes the new Dey on behalf of the
Dey of Algiers , Hadj Ahmed.
[10]
December 3 – The
Parliament of England passes the
Triennial Act , requiring
general elections every three years.
[11]
December 6 –
Thomas Tenison is appointed
Archbishop of Canterbury .
December 16 – A total
solar eclipse is visible across South America.
[12]
Date unknown
Births
Paul of the Cross born
3 January
Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer born
11 February
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) born
8 August
Christiane Charlotte of Württemberg-Winnental born
20 August
Elisha Williams born
26 August
John Vanderbank born
9 September
Yeongjo of Joseon born
13 September
Henry Pelham born
25 September
Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia born
4 October
Augustine Washington born
12 November
Voltaire born
21 November
January–March
January 1 –
Abdallah of Morocco , Sultan of Morocco (d.
1757 )
January 3 –
Paul of the Cross , Italian mystic (d.
1775 )
January 5 –
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer , German sinologst (d.
1738 )
January 6 –
Melchor Chyliński , Polish presbyter (d.
1741 )
January 12
January 25 –
Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold (d.
1734 )
January 28 –
Peter Collinson , botanist (d.
1768 )
February 1 –
Giuseppe Spinelli , Catholic cardinal (d.
1763 )
February 4 –
Georg Gottlob Richter , German philosopher and physician (d.
1773 )
February 11 –
Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer , English noblewoman (d.
1755 )
February 18 –
Johann Christoph Handke , Czech painter (d.
1774 )
February 21 –
Richard Waldron , Colonial New Hampshire businessman and politician (d.
1753 )
February 24 –
Bartolomeo Altomonte , Austrian artist (d.
1783 )
March 11 –
Elizabeth Tollet , British poet (d.
1754 )
March 15 –
Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen , English clergyman with German connection (d.
1776 )
March 21 –
Daniel Scott , British lexicographer (d.
1759 )
March 24
March 25 –
Christian Otto of Limburg , Reigning count of Limburg-Styrum-Styrum (d.
1749 )
April–June
April 3 –
George Edwards , English naturalist and ornithologist (d.
1773 )
April 14 –
Maximilien-Henri de Horion (d.
1759 )
April 25 –
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington , English architect (d.
1753 )
April 30 –
William Pitkin , Governor of the Connecticut Colony (d.
1769 )
May 7 –
Pierre-Jean Mariette , French art historian (d.
1774 )
May 8 –
Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne , French writer (d.
1779 )
May 10 –
Michael Harvey , British Member of Parliament (d.
1748 )
May 11
May 22 –
Daniel Gran , Austrian painter (d.
1757 )
June 3 –
Scawen Kenrick , English clergyman (d.
1753 )
June 4 –
François Quesnay , French economist (d.
1774 )
June 6 –
Francis Wollaston , English scientist (d.
1774 )
June 9 –
Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford , British politician (d.
1748 )
June 11 –
Thomas Willoughby , British politician (d.
1742 )
June 18 –
Karl Heinrich von Hoym , German diplomat, statesman and politician (d.
1736 )
June 19 –
Jean-André Peyssonnel , French physician (d.
1759 )
June 20 –
Hans Adolph Brorson , Danish bishop (d.
1764 )
June 23 –
Stamp Brooksbank , MP and Governor of the Bank of England (d.
1756 )
June 24 –
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui , Genevan legal and political theorist (d.
1748 )
June 26 –
Georg Brandt , Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d.
1768 )
June 27 –
John Michael Rysbrack , Flemish sculptor (d.
1770 )
June 29 –
Maria Josepha of Dietrichstein , German noblewoman, member of the House of Dietrichstein; by marriage Countess and later Princess Kinsky of Wchinitz und Tettau (d.
1758 )
July–September
July 4
July 11 –
Charles-Antoine Coypel , French painter, art commentator, and playwright (d.
1752 )
July 12 –
Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , German noble (d.
1748 )
July 16 –
Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone , Irish politician (d.
1763 )
July 18
August 1 –
Michael Davies , priest (d.
1779 )
August 3 –
Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare , French dilettante (d.
1772 )
August 4 –
Étienne-François Avisse , French playwright (d.
1747 )
August 5 –
Leonardo Leo , Italian composer (d.
1744 )
August 8 –
Francis Hutcheson , Scottish philosopher (d.
1746 )
August 10 –
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower , British politician (d.
1754 )
August 11 –
Giorgio Baffo , Venetian senator and poet (d.
1768 )
August 14
August 16 –
Réginald Outhier , French astronomer and priest (d.
1774 )
August 19 –
Elizabeth Compton, Countess of Northampton , British noble (d.
1741 )
August 20
August 23 –
Johann Georg Schmidt , engraver from Germany (d.
1767 )
August 25
August 26 –
Elisha Williams , American rector of Yale College (d.
1755 )
August 27 –
Henry Osborn , Royal Navy admiral (d.
1771 )
August 28 –
Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Grand Duchess of Russia (d.
1715 )
September 6 –
Johann Daniel Schöpflin , German historian (d.
1771 )
September 7 –
Johan Ludvig Holstein , Danish politician (d.
1763 )
September 9 –
John Vanderbank , British artist (d.
1739 )
September 12 –
Johan von Mangelsen , Norwegian businessman and general (d.
1769 )
September 13 –
Yeongjo of Joseon , 21st King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history (d.
1776 )
September 18 –
Jacques-Ignace de La Touche , painter (d.
1781 )
September 22 –
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield , British statesman and man of letters (d.
1773 )
September 25 –
Henry Pelham ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1754 )
September 26 –
Martin Schmid , Swiss composer and architect (d.
1772 )
October–December
October 4
October 9 –
Marquard Herrgott , German Benedictine historian and diplomat (d.
1762 )
October 14 –
Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone , British politician (d.
1761 )
October 15
October 18 –
René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson , French statesman (d.
1757 )
October 24 –
Humphrey Sydenham , British politician (d.
1757 )
October 26
October 27 –
Simon Pelloutier , German historian (d.
1757 )
November 2 –
Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach , Heir apparent of Neuburg, Sulzbach and the Palatinate (d.
1729 )
November 3
November 5 –
Ricardo Wall , Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service (d.
1777 )
November 12 –
Augustine Washington , British-American planter, slave owner, and the father of George Washington (d.
1743 )
November 16 –
Isabella Simons , banker in the Austrian Netherlands (d.
1756 )
November 21 –
Voltaire , French writer, historian, and philosopher (d.
1778 )
[13]
November 23 –
Charlotte Daneau de Muy , Canadian historian (d.
1759 )
November 26 –
Louis de Boissy , French writer (d.
1758 )
November 29 –
Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen , German prince and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen (d.
1728 )
December 2 –
William Shirley , British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (d.
1771 )
December 10 –
Vittorio Francesco, Marquis of Susa , Prince of Savoy (d.
1762 )
December 11 –
Johann Michael von Loën , German author (d.
1776 )
December 20 –
Andrew Johnston , American politician (d.
1762 )
December 22 –
Hermann Samuel Reimarus , German philosopher and writer (d.
1768 )
December 24
Deaths
Francesco Morosini died
16 January
William Dolben (judge) died
25 January
Natalya Naryshkina died
4 February
Nicolás de Villacis died
8 April
Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé died
16 April
Philip Howard (cardinal) died
17 June
Hishikawa Moronobu died
25 July
Suleiman I of Persia died
29 July
Antoine Arnauld died
8 August
Bernard of Offida died
22 August
Princess Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst died
14 September
Matsuo Bashō died
28 November
Marcello Malpighi died
29 November
Pierre Puget died
2 December
Mary II of England died
28 December
January–March
January 2 –
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington , English politician and Earl (b.
1652 )
January 7 –
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield , English aristocrat and soldier (b. c.
1618 )
January 8 –
Thomas Strickland , English royalist soldier (b.
1621 )
January 10 –
Andrew Balfour , British doctor and botanist (b.
1630 )
January 16
January 17
January 19 –
François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne , French nobleman and member of the House of Lorraine (b.
1624 )
January 25 –
William Dolben , English judge (b.
1627 )
January 31 –
Henry Northleigh , English Member of Parliament (b.
1643 )
February 1 –
John Louis of Elderen ,
Bishop of Liege (b.
1620 )
February 4
February 8 –
Domenico Santi , Italian painter (b.
1621 )
February 9 –
Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel , French salon-holder (b.
1605 )
February 17 –
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières , French writer, poet (b.
1638 )
February 19
February 21 –
Simon Abeles , Jewish youth in Prague whose father was accused of murdering him “out of hatred for the Christian faith” (b.
1682 )
February 23 –
Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.
1650 )
February 25 –
Gilles Hallet , Flemish Baroque painter (b.
1620 )
February 26 –
Charles Scarborough , English physician and natural philosopher (b.
1615 )
March 5 –
Vittoria della Rovere , Italian noble (b.
1622 )
March 10 –
Paul Fréart de Chantelou , art collector (b.
1609 )
March 11 –
Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy , French harpsichordist and composer (b.
1633 )
March 12 –
John Conant , English theologian, clergyman, and academic administrator (b.
1608 )
March 15 –
Cresheld Draper , English politician (b.
1646 )
March 24 –
Peter Colleton , English politician (b.
1635 )
March 25 –
Greenvile Collins , English hydrographer (b.
1643 )
March 26 –
Arthur Stanhope , English politician (b.
1627 )
April–June
April 5 –
Diego Ibáñez de la Madrid y Bustamente , Roman Catholic bishop (b.
1649 )
April 8 –
Nicolás de Villacis , Spanish painter (b.
1616 )
April 9 –
Angelo Berardi , Italian composer and music theorist (b.
1630 )
April 10 –
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg , Austrian writer and noble (b.
1633 )
April 12 –
John Swinfen , English politician (b.
1613 )
April 13 –
José de Jesús María Fajardo , Spanish Roman Catholic prelate; Bishop of Alghero (b.
1643 )
April 14 –
Magdalena Sibylla of Neidschutz , German countess (b.
1675 )
April 16 –
Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé , French noblewoman (b.
1628 )
April 17 –
François IV de Beauharnais , French nobleman (b.
1636 )
April 18 –
William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland (b.
1634 )
April 20
April 27 –
John George IV, Elector of Saxony , German noble (b.
1668 )
May 1 –
Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt , Mother of Johann Sebastian Bach (b.
1644 )
May 2 –
Martin Desjardins , French sculptor (b.
1637 )
May 4 –
Ludwig Anton von Pfalz-Neuburg , Roman Catholic bishop (b.
1660 )
May 17 –
Johann Michael Bach , German composer (b.
1648 )
May 20 –
Robert Spencer, 1st Viscount Teviot , Member of the Parliament of England (b.
1629 )
May 24 –
Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland , English politician (b.
1656 )
May 27 –
Thomas Hervey , politician of Ickworth, Suffolk (b.
1625 )
June 2
June 8 –
Pieter van der Willigen , Dutch painter (b.
1634 )
June 17
June 22 –
Thomas Tollemache , English general (b.
1651 )
June 27 –
François Louis, Count of Harcourt , French count (b.
1627 )
June 28 –
Francisco Spinola , Roman Catholic clergyman (b.
1654 )
June 30 –
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff , American farmer and landowner (b.
1625 )
July–September
July 1
July 6 –
Francesco Beretta , Italian composer (b.
1640 )
July 11 –
Philip Christoph von Königsmarck , Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier (b.
1665 )
July 12 –
Juan de Santiago y León Garabito , Spanish Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadalajara and Bishop of Puerto Rico (b.
1641 )
July 19 –
René Ouvrard , French composer (b.
1624 )
July 21 –
Jacob Jensen Jersin , Danish-Norwegian theologian, priest, bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand (b.
1633 )
July 25
July 27 –
George Pitt , English politician (b.
1625 )
July 28 –
William Lowther , English Member of Parliament (b.
1668 )
July 29 –
Suleiman I of Persia , Shah of Persia from 1666 to 1694 (b.
1647 )
August 1
August 5
August 6 –
Gabriel de la Corte , Spanish painter (b.
1648 )
August 8 –
Antoine Arnauld , French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (b.
1612 )
August 21 –
Tommaso Saladini , Roman Catholic bishop (b.
1647 )
August 22
August 28 –
Francesco Antonio Picchiatti , Italian architect (b.
1617 )
August 29 –
Sir Richard Everard, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.
1625 )
August 30 –
Louis de Crevant, Duke of Humières , Marshal of France (b.
1628 )
September 3 –
Jean Barbier d'Aucour , French lawyer to the parliament of Paris, ardent Jansenist and satirist (b.
1641 )
September 6 –
Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena , Italian noble (b.
1660 )
September 7 –
Andrija Zmajević , Serbian poet (b.
1624 )
September 10 –
Thomas Lloyd , Lieutenant-governor of provincial Pennsylvania and Quaker preacher (b.
1640 )
September 14
September 22 –
Henry Neville , English politician (b.
1620 )
September 24 –
Jean Garet , French monk (b.
1627 )
September 27 –
Giuseppe Colombi , musician, composer (b.
1635 )
September 28 –
Gabriel Mouton , French abbot and scientist (b.
1619 )
September 29
October–December
October 6 –
Sugiyama Waichi , Japanese acupuncturist (b.
1610 )
October 9 –
Jean-Louis Bergeret , French lawyer (b.
1641 )
October 12
October 13 –
Johann Christoph Pezel , German violinist, trumpeter and composer (b.
1639 )
October 18 –
Pierre Ango , French Catholic priest and scientist (b.
1640 )
October 19 –
Pierre Menault , French composer (b.
1642 )
October 20 –
Christian II, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b.
1653 )
October 26 –
Samuel von Pufendorf , German philosopher (b.
1632 )
October 27 –
Gevherhan Sultan , Daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I (b.
1642 )
October 30
November 7 –
Jacques de Claeuw , painter from the Northern Netherlands (b.
1623 )
November 14 –
Christian III Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg , German duke (b.
1680 )
November 16 –
Jacques-Théodore de Bryas , clergyman from the Low Countries, bishop of Saint-Omer and archbishop of Cambrai (b.
1631 )
November 22 –
John Tillotson ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1630 )
November 23
November 25 –
Ismaël Bullialdus , French astronomer (b.
1605 )
November 28 –
Matsuo Bashō , Japanese poet (b.
1644 )
November 29 –
Marcello Malpighi , Italian physician (b.
1628 )
December 2 –
Pierre Puget , French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (b.
1620 )
December 4
December 5 –
William Beecher , English politician (b.
1628 )
December 7 –
Tiberio Fiorilli , Italian-born actor (b.
1608 )
December 9 –
Paolo Segneri , Italian Jesuit (b.
1624 )
December 11 –
Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma from 1646 until his death (b.
1630 )
December 12 –
Filippo Lauri , Italian painter (b.
1623 )
December 20 –
Erasmus Finx , German polymath (b.
1627 )
December 24 –
Giovanni Paolo Meniconi , Catholic bishop (b.
1629 )
December 26 –
Francis Cuffe , politician (b.
1654 )
December 27 –
Henrik Span , naval officer in the Dutch (b.
1634 )
December 28
date unknown –
Hafız Post , Turkish musician (b. c.
1630 )
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