Isfahan, eight days after the death of his father Suleiman I. August 24 – The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the first official dictionary of the French language, is presented by Jacques de Tourreil and Academy members on behalf of the Académie française to King Louis XIV. September 5 – The Great Fire of Warwick breaks out in England and destroys half the town. Donors raise £110,000 toward disaster relief, with Queen Anne contributing £1,000. September 8 – The 1694 Irpinia–Basilicata earthquake causes widespread severe damage and over 6,000 deaths in the Kingdom of Naples. September 27 – A hurricane hits Carlisle Bay, Barbados, sinking 27 British ships and resulting in 3,000 casualties. October–December October 19 – A major windstorm begins and continues for several days, spreading the Culbin Sands over a large area of farmland in the Scottish Highlands in the County of Moray and burying the now-abandoned village of Culbin. October 23 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French. October 25 – Queen Mary II of England founds the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. November 12 – The Army of Algeria captures Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, after a siege of three months, bringing an end to the Tunisian–Algerian War. Mohamed Bey El Mouradi, the Bey of Tunis, flees southward while Prince Muhammad ben Cheker of Tunisia becomes the new Dey on behalf of the Dey of Algiers, Hadj Ahmed.<ref>Alphonse Rousseau, Annales tunisiennes ou aperçu historique sur la régence de Tunis (Bastide, 1864)</ref> December 3 – The Parliament of England passes the Triennial Act, requiring general elections every three years. December 6 – Thomas Tenison is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. December 16 – A total solar eclipse is visible across South America. Date unknown The Lao empire of Lan Xang unofficially ends. The notorious voyage of the English slave ship Hannibal (part of the Atlantic slave trade out of Benin) ends with the death of nearly half of the 692 slaves aboard. Rascians establish the settlement which will become Novi Sad on the Danube. The Parker Tavern is built in Reading, Massachusetts. Births January–March January 1 – Abdallah of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco (d. 1757) January 3 – Paul of the Cross, Italian mystic (d. 1775) January 5 – Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, German sinologst (d. 1738) January 6 – Melchor Chyliński, Polish presbyter (d. 1741) January 12 Oluf Blach,