1694

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.

1694 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1694 MDCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2447
Armenian calendar	1143 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6444
Balinese saka calendar	1615–1616
Bengali calendar	1101
Berber calendar	2644
English Regnal year	6 Will. & Mar. – 7 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar	2238
Burmese calendar	1056
Byzantine calendar	7202–7203
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4390 or 4330     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4391 or 4331
Coptic calendar	1410–1411
Discordian calendar	2860
Ethiopian calendar	1686–1687
Hebrew calendar	5454–5455
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1750–1751
- Shaka Samvat	1615–1616
- Kali Yuga	4794–4795
Holocene calendar	11694
Igbo calendar	694–695
Iranian calendar	1072–1073
Islamic calendar	1105–1106
Japanese calendar	Genroku 7 (元禄７年)
Javanese calendar	1617–1618
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4027
Minguo calendar	218 before ROC 民前218年
Nanakshahi calendar	226
Thai solar calendar	2236–2237
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1820 or 1439 or 667     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1821 or 1440 or 668

Events

• February 6 – The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed.
• July 27 – A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
• December 22 – The Triennial Bill became 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.
• Much of the town of Warwick, England destroyed by fire.
• The Lao empire of Lan Xang unofficially ends.