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Year 1694 (MDCXCIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1694

January - June

February 5 - The ship Ridderschap van Holland is lost at sea after it departed the Cape of Good Hope but didn't arrive at Batavia.
February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed.
1 March - HMS Sussex treasure fleet (13 ships) shipwrecked off Gibraltar with the loss of approximately 1,200 lives.

July - December

July 27 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.

September 5 - Great Fire of Warwick, England.

December 22 - The Triennial Bill becomes 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.

Undated

The Lao empire of Lan Xang unofficially ends.

Births

April 25 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (died 1753)

June 4 - François Quesnay, French economist (died 1774)

June 26 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (died 1768)

July 4 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (died 1772)

August 5 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (died 1744)

August 8 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (died 1746)

August 26 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (died 1755)

September 22 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (died 1773)

September 25 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1754)

October 26 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (died 1758)

November 21 - Voltaire, French philosopher (died 1778)

November 28 - Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen (died 1728)

December 22 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (died 1768) ť See also .

Deaths

January 2 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (born 1651)

January 7 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (born c.1618)

February 4 - Natalia Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (born 1651)

April 27 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (born 1668)

June 17 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1629)

August 8 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (born 1612)

October 15 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (born 1632)

November 22 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1630)

November 25 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (born 1605)

November 28 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (born 1644)

November 29 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (born 1628)

December 2 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (born 1622)

December 28 - Queen Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (born 1662) ť See also .

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