1686
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This article is about the year 1686.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1650s 1660s 1670s – 1680s – 1690s 1700s 1710s |
| Years: | 1683 1684 1685 – 1686 – 1687 1688 1689 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1686 MDCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2439 |
| Armenian calendar | 1135 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6436 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -158–-157 |
| Bengali calendar | 1093 |
| Berber calendar | 2636 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Ja. 2 – 2 Ja. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2230 |
| Burmese calendar | 1048 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7194–7195 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年十二月初七日 (4322/4382-12-7) — to —
丙寅年十一月十七日(4323/4383-11-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 1402–1403 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1678–1679 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5446–5447 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1742–1743 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1608–1609 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4787–4788 |
| Holocene calendar | 11686 |
| Iranian calendar | 1064–1065 |
| Islamic calendar | 1097–1098 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōkyō 3 (貞享3年) |
| Korean calendar | 4019 |
| Minguo calendar | 226 before ROC 民前226年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2229 |
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Year 1686 (MDCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- May 4 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
[edit] July–December
- July 22 – New York City and Albany, New York are granted city charters by the colonial governor.
- September 2 – The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from Ottoman Turkish rule (leading to the end of Turkish rule in Hungary during the subsequent years).
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- The historian and naturalist, Robert Plot, publishes his Natural history of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county. It was the first document known to mention crop circles and the double sunset over the Cheshire Plain.
- James VII of Scotland and James II of England tries to persuade Parliament to repeal the Test Acts, which bar Catholics from public office. Having failed, he issues a Declaration of Indulgence, which suspends penal laws against both Catholics and Protestant dissenters. Suspicions about James' intentions grow as he systematically places Catholics in key positions.
- A group of conspirators meet at Charborough House in Dorset to plan the overthrow of King James and replace him with the Protestant Dutch Stadtholder, William III of Orange-Nassau.
- The League of Augsburg is founded in response to claims made by Louis XIV of France on the Palatinate in western Germany. It comprises the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and the electors of Bavaria, Saxony and the Palatinate.
- Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Imperial forces under Austrian leadership invade Ottoman-occupied Hungary and advance on Budapest.
- In Greece, Ottoman-occupied Morea (i.e., the Peloponnese) falls to the Venetians.
- A hurricane saves Charleston, South Carolina, from attack by Spanish vessels.
- The Dominion of New England is formed.
[edit] Births
- January 16 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
- January 31 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
- April 9 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (d. 1721)
- April 28 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
- April 29 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
- May 24 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor (d. 1736)
- June 9 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
- July 6 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
- July 9 – Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1749)
- July 31 (or August 1) – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1739)
- August 12 – John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
- August 19 – Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
- August 19 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
- October 15 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)
[edit] Deaths
- January 31 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
- February 10 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
- April 6 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
- April 19 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
- June 23 – William Coventry, English statesman (b. c.1628)
- July 10 – John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
- July 16 – John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
- August 13 – Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
- October 26 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
- November 11
- Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
- Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor (b. 1602), who is noted for the first air pump (1650) and creation of a vacuum (1654) using his Magdeburg Hemispheres.
