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 departs the Cape of Good Hope, but does not arrive at Batavia.
• February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil is destroyed.
• 1 March - The HMS Sussex treasure fleet (13 ships) is 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 - The Great Fire of Warwick breaks out in England.
• December - Thomas Tenison becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
• 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 (d. 1753)
• June 4 - François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
• June 26 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (d. 1768)
• July 4 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
• August 5 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
• August 8 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
• August 26 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
• September 22 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (d. 1773)
• September 25 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
• October 26 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
• November 21 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
• November 28 - Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen (d. 1728)
• December 22 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)

See also Category: 1694 births.

Deaths

• January 2 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• January 7 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b. c.1618)
• February 4 - Natalia Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
• April 27 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
• June 17 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
• August 8 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
• October 15 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
• November 22 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
• November 25 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
• November 28 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
• November 29 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
• December 2 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
• December 28 - Queen Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1662)

See also Category: 1694 deaths.