1686

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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).

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Events of 1686

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1686

★ May 4 - The Municipality of Ilagan was founded in the Philippines.

★ 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 the Ottoman Turkish rule that leads 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 met 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

★ January 16 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (died 1766)

★ January 31 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (died 1758)

★ April 9 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (died 1721)

★ April 28 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (died 1721)

★ April 29 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (died 1742)

★ May 24 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor (died 1736)

★ June 9 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (died 1747)

★ July 6 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (died 1758)

★ July 9 - Philip Livingston, American politician (died 1749)

★ July 31 (or August 1) - Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (died 1739)

★ August 12 - John Balguy, English philosopher (died 1748)

★ August 19 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (died 1737)

★ August 19 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (died 1768)

★ October 15 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (died 1758)
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Deaths

★ January 31 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (born 1604)

★ February 10 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (born 1605)

★ April 6 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (born. 1614)

★ April 19 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (born 1610)

★ June 23 - William Coventry, English statesman (born c.1628)

★ July 10 - John Fell, English churchman (born 1625)

★ July 16 - John Pearson, English theologian (born 1612)

★ August 13 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (born 1610)

★ October 26 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (born 1623)

★ November 11 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (born 1621)

★ November 11 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor (born 1602)
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