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1695| 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1695 | England [music] | The English composer Henry Purcell completes his choral work Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary. His opera The Indian Queen is first performed, in London, England, with a libretto by the poet John Dryden. | | 6 February 1695 | Ottoman Empire [administration] | Mustafa II succeeds as sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the death of Ahmad II. | | 8 July 1695 | United Netherlands [births and deaths] | Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who developed the wave theory of light, dies in The Hague, United Netherlands (66). | | 21 November 1695 | England [births and deaths] | Henry Purcell, English baroque composer, dies in London, England (36). |
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