1686 Facts for Kids

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 various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1686 MDCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2439
Armenian calendar	1135 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	6436
Balinese saka calendar	1607–1608
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 (Wood Ox) 4382 or 4322 — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4383 or 4323
Coptic calendar	1402–1403
Discordian calendar	2852
Ethiopian calendar	1678–1679
Hebrew calendar	5446–5447
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1742–1743
- Shaka Samvat	1607–1608
- Kali Yuga	4786–4787
Holocene calendar	11686
Igbo calendar	686–687
Iranian calendar	1064–1065
Islamic calendar	1097–1098
Japanese calendar	Jōkyō 3 (貞享３年)
Javanese calendar	1609–1610
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4019
Minguo calendar	226 before ROC 民前226年
Nanakshahi calendar	218
Thai solar calendar	2228–2229
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1812 or 1431 or 659 — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1813 or 1432 or 660

Year 1686 was a common year that started on a Tuesday when using the Gregorian calendar.

Events

May 4 – The Municipality of Ilagan was founded in the Philippines.
July 17 – A meeting took 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'.
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.

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.

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)

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)