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

• 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.

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