1695 in England
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Events from the year 1695 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - King William III
[edit] Events
- 13 January - Princess Anne returns to court to act as royal hostess.[1]
- April - Parliament decides not to renew the statutes requiring press censorship.[1]
- 30 April - William Congreve's comedy Love for Love opens the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.[2]
- 3 May - Parliament passes the Corrupt Practices Act 1695 to tackle bribery in general elections.[3]
- 1 September - War of the Grand Alliance: King William III captures Namur following the Siege of Namur.[3]
- November - General election results in victory for the Whigs.[1]
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- The window tax is imposed.[3]
- Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- Thomas Tenison enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
[edit] Births
- 2 February - William Borlase, naturalist (died 1772)
- 20 November - John Bevis, physician and astronomer (died 1771)
[edit] Deaths
- 5 March - Henry Wharton, writer (born 1664)
- 5 April - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, writer and statesman (born 1633)
- 27 April - John Trenchard, statesman (born 1640)
- 21 November - Henry Purcell, composer (born 1654)
- 28 November - Anthony Wood, antiquarian (born 1632)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 198–200. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. 4. p. 542.
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 287. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
[edit] See also
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