Events from the year1694 inEngland.

• Monarch –William III, jointly withMary II (until 28 December), then as sole monarch (starting 28 December)

• 1 March – theHMSSussex treasure fleet of thirteen ships is wrecked in theMediterranean offGibraltar with the loss of approximately 1,200 lives.
• May – theFirst Whig Junto is appointed to government.^[1]
• June –Henry Every leads a bloodless mutiny aboard the privateerCharles II in Spain.
• 27 July – theBank of England is established byRoyal charter following a proposal by Scottish-born merchantWilliam Paterson;^[2]John Houblon becomes its firstGovernor.
• 5 September –Great Fire of Warwick.
• 25 October –Queen Mary II founds theRoyal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.^[3]
• 3 December –Parliament passes theMeeting of Parliament Act (Triennial Act) requiringgeneral elections every three years and an annual meeting.^[1]
• 28 December – with the death ofQueen Mary II (aged 32) fromsmallpox atKensington Palace,King William III becomes sole monarch.^[1]
• Notorious voyage of the Englishslave shipHannibal in theAtlantic slave trade out ofBenin, ending with the death of nearly half of the 692 slaves aboard.
• TheMillion Lottery, the first statelottery, is drawn.^[4]

• Mary Astell's (anonymous) argument for the promotion of female educationA Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest.
• "N.H."'sThe Ladies Dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex: a work never attempted before in English is published byJohn Dunton.

• 25 April –Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, architect (died 1753)
• 22 September –Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters (died 1773)
• 25 September –Henry Pelham,Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1754)

• 2 January –Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, politician (born 1651)
• 7 January –Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (born c. 1618)
• 17 June –Philip Howard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1629)
• 22 November –John Tillotson,Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1630)
• 28 December – QueenMary II of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1662)^[5]

• 1694 in England
• Years of the 17th century in England

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