* 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 )

* 1695 – French forces end the Bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.

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He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ).

* 1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician ( d. 1695 )

* 1622 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet ( d. 1695 )

* 1695 – John Trenchard, English statesman ( b. 1640 )

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.

* 1747 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar ( b. 1695 )

* 1625 – Barthélemy d ' Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist ( d. 1695 )

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* 1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, German composer, father to Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1695 )

* 1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1726 )

* 1695 – William Borlase, English naturalist ( d. 1772 )

* 1695 – François de Chevert, French general ( d. 1769 )

During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine ( 1621 – 1695 ) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior.

* Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695 ( Netherlands )

By the 17th century, Osei Kofi Tutu I ( c. 1695 – 1717 ), with help of Okomfo Anokye, unified what became the Ashante into a confederation with the Golden Stool as a symbol of their unity and spirit.

* 1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II.

* 1621 – Jean de La Fontaine, French writer ( d. 1695 )

* 1695 – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian composer and an oboist ( d. 1750 )

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

* 1664 – Henry Wharton, English writer ( d. 1695 )

The Sprightly Companion, an instruction book published by Henry Playford in 1695, describes the oboe as " Majestical and Stately, and not much Inferior to the Trumpet.

* 1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer ( d. 1695 )

* September 10 – Henry Purcell, English composer ( d. 1695 )

* November 9 – Henry Wharton, English writer ( d. 1695 )

Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) whose operas were written to English libretti

He was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1670, and in 1695 became the leading bass singer in the company with which Henry Purcell worked, playing roles such as the magician Ismeron in The Indian Queen, where he sang the major aria " Ye twice ten hundred deities ".

* Henry Wharton ( 1664 – 1695 ), English writer

Well into the nineteenth century, English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan ( 1622 – 1695 ) from Brecknockshire, and John Dyer ( 1699 – 1757 ) from Carmarthenshire.

While historically Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, well into the nineteenth century English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan from Brecknockshire ( 1622 – 1695 ), and John Dyer from Carmarthenshire ( 1699 – 1757 ).

), 1694 and 1700 ; odes, and the like, for the celebration of St Cecilia's Day for 1684, 1691, 1695 and 1700 ; for the coronation of James II, two anthems, Behold, O God, our Defender and God spake sometimes in visions ; some harpsichord pieces for the second part of Henry Playford's Musick's handmaid ( 1689 ); Epicedium for Queen Mary ( 1695 ) and Ode on the Death of Purcell ( 1696 ).

* John Dryden-An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell ( died 1695 )

* November 9 – Henry Wharton ( died 1695 )

* Henry Vaughan ( 1622 – 1695 )

More famously, the 1695 revival had new music by Henry Purcell, most of it appearing in the masque that ended Act Two.

* Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor ( 1695 – 1741 )

* Henry Pendlebury ( 1626 – 1695 ), Presbyterian minister

Hampton Court Maze is a hedge maze planted some time between 1689 and 1695 by George London and Henry Wise for William III of Orange at Hampton Court Palace.

Arriving at the Mandab Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea in August, 1695, Tew found several other pirates hoping to duplicate his prior success, including Henry Every in the powerfully armed warship Fancy.

In 1695, with the assistance of Massachusetts supporters Henry Ashurst and Sir Constantine Henry Phipps, a bill was introduced into Parliament to do so.