Events of 1695

January–June

• January 27 – Mustafa II (1695–1703) succeeds Ahmed II as Ottoman Emperor.

July–December

• July 17 – The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament.

• August 8 – The Wren Building is started in Williamsburg, Virginia (completed in 1700).

• August – Bombardment of Brussels

• December 31 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.

Undated

• Russia declares war on Turkey.

• A £2 fine is imposed for swearing in England.

• After 23 years of construction, Spain completes Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida from foreign threats.

• English manufacturers call for an embargo on Indian cloth and silk weavers picket the House of Commons.

• In England, Parliament decides against a renewal of the Licensing Act, putting an end to royal censorship of printing presses and so clearing the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696.

• After many years of construction, the Potala Palace is completed.

• Gold is discovered in Brazil

Ongoing

• Nine Years' War

Births

• February 2 – William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)

• February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)

• April 8 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (d. 1723)

• May 2 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (d. 1766)

• May 3 – Henri Pitot, French engineer (d. 1771)

• September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)

• September 5 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)

• October 5 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)

• November 10 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)

• date unknown – James Figg, first English bare-knuckle boxing champion (d. 1734)

Deaths

• January 4 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (b. 1628)

• February 6 – Ahmed II of Turkey (b. 1643)

• February 18 – Sir William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)

• March 5 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)

• April 3 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. c. 1636)

• April 5 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (b. 1633)

• April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer noted for his fables (b. 1621)

• April 17 – Sor Juana, Mexican writer (b. c. 1650)

• April 27 – John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)

• April 28 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)

• June 11 – André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)

• July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light (b. 1629)

• July 18 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)

• August 6 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (b. 1625)

• August 12 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (b. 1610)

• September – Thomas Tew, English pyrate

• November 16 – Pierre Nicole, French Jansensist (b. 1625)

• November 20 – Zumbi, Brazilian leader of a runaway slave colony (b. 1655)

• November 21 – Henry Purcell, English composer whose works include the opera Dido and Aeneas (b. 1654)

• November 22 – Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse (accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692), b. 1618

• November 28 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)

• November 29 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)

• December 8 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)

• December 12 – Jacob Abendana, British rabbi (b. 1630)