1686

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1650s  1660s  1670s  - 1680s -  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years: 1683 1684 1685 - 1686 - 1687 1688 1689
1686 in topic:
Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works

Year 1686 (MDCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1686

• May 4 - The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
• July 17 - A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between 'some evangelical Princes and Electors' and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark and the Queen of England. The object of this meeting is the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence against the Catholic League, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae'.[1]
• 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).

Undated

• The League of Augsburg is founded.
• Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
• A group of conspirators meet at Charborough House in Dorset to plan the overthrow of King James II of England by Parliamentarians and the Dutch William III of Orange-Nassau.
• A hurricane saves Charleston, South Carolina, from attack by Spanish vessels.

Births

1686 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1686
MDCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita 2439
Armenian calendar 1135
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԵ
Bahá'í calendar -158 – -157
Berber calendar 2636
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) 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 1741 – 1742
 - 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
Thai solar calendar 2229

• 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)

See also Category: 1686 births.

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)
• November 11 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor (b. 1602)

References

See also Category: 1686 deaths.