Editing 1695 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[April 17]] – The [[House of Commons of England]] decides not to renew the [[Licensing Order of 1643]], and states its reasoning, beginning with "Because it revives, and re-enacts, a Law which in no-wise answered the End for which it was made".<ref>"Appendix G: Refusal of the House of Commons to Renew the Licensing Act (1695)", ''Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Ccensorship in Tudor and Stuart England'', by Dorothy Auchter (Greenwood Press, 2001) p. 389</ref> The lifting of censorship creates a more open society, and an explosion of print results. Within 30 years, the number of printing houses in England increases from 20 to 103.<ref name=Kernan>Alvin B. Kernan, "Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print" (Princeton University Press, 2021) p. 59</ref><ref name=CBH198200>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=198–200|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[April 22]] – [[Sürmeli Ali Pasha]] is fired from his position as [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]], after coming into a disagreement with the new Sultan, Mustafa II. Sürmeli is initially sent into exile, but executed on the Sultan's orders on May 29.
* [[April 27]] – [[Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)]]: [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] begins the [[Azov campaigns (1695–96)]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]], with 31,000 troops departing to the Ottoman fortress at Azov on the [[Don (river)|Don River]].<ref name=BlackSea>"Azov campaigns of 1695–1696", ''The Black Sea Encyclopedia'' (Springer Berlin, 2014) p. 71</ref>
* [[May 18]] – The 7.8 magnitude [[1695 Linfen earthquake|Linfen earthquake]] in Shanxi Province, Qing Dynasty kills over 50,000 people.<ref name="Xu">{{Cite journal|author1=Yueren Xu |author2=Honglin He |author3=Qidong Deng |author4=Mark B. Allen |author5=Haoyue Sun |author6=Lisi Bi |title=The CE 1303 Hongdong earthquake and the Huoshan Piedmont Fault, Shanxi Graben: Implications for magnitude limits of normal fault earthquakes |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |date=2018 |volume=123 |issue=4 |pages=3098–3121 |doi=10.1002/2017JB014928 |bibcode=2018JGRB..123.3098X |s2cid=135046043 |url=https://dro.dur.ac.uk/24519/2/24519.pdf}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] – An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across South America.<ref name="Astro0231695">{{Cite web|url=http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0231695/|title=Annular Eclipse of the Sun: 1695 June 11|website=astro.ukho.gov.uk|accessdate=September 27, 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] – The Commission of Enquiry into the [[Massacre of Glencoe]] in [[Scotland]] in [[1692]] reports to the [[Parliament of England]], blaming Sir [[John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair|John Dalrymple]], [[Secretary of State over Scotland]], and declares that a soldier should refuse to obey a "command against the law of nature".