1686

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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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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).

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).

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.

^ Statement is made on folio 35 of the dedication of the Naometria to the Duke of Wurttemberg, repeated on folio 122. Cf. A.E. Waite, Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, London, 1924, pp. 639 ff.

See also Category: 1686 deaths.

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