1686 facts for kids

The year 1686 was a regular year that began on a Tuesday. This is based on the Gregorian calendar, which is the calendar most of the world uses today.

Important Events of 1686

• May 4 – The town of Ilagan was started in the Philippines.
• July 17 – Important Protestant leaders met in Lüneburg, Germany. They talked with representatives from Navarre, Denmark, and England. Their goal was to form an alliance called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae'. This group aimed to defend against the Catholic League.
• July 22 – New York City and Albany, New York officially became cities. The colonial governor gave them special documents called city charters, which gave them more rights.
• September 2 – The forces of the Holy League of 1684 took back Buda from the Ottoman Turkish rule. This event helped end Turkish rule in Hungary in the years that followed.

Other Events in 1686

• The League of Augsburg was created. This was an alliance of European countries.
• Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg, and Bavaria joined the Holy League. This group was fighting against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
• A group of people met in Charborough House in Dorset, England. They planned to remove King James II of England from power. They wanted Parliament and the Dutch leader William III of Orange-Nassau to take over.
• A strong hurricane hit the coast. It saved Charleston, South Carolina, from an attack by Spanish ships.

People Born in 1686

• January 16 – Archibald Bower, a historian from Scotland.
• January 31 – Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary.
• April 9 – James Craggs the Younger, an English politician.
• April 28 – Michael Brokoff, a sculptor from the Czech Republic.
• April 29 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, an English statesman.
• May 24 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German physicist and inventor. He invented the mercury thermometer.
• June 9 – Andrei Osterman, a Russian statesman.
• July 6 – Antoine de Jussieu, a French naturalist.
• July 9 – Philip Livingston, an American politician.
• July 31 (or August 1) – Benedetto Marcello, an Italian composer.
• August 12 – John Balguy, an English philosopher.
• August 19 – Eustace Budgell, an English writer.
• August 19 – Nicola Porpora, an Italian composer.
• October 15 – Allan Ramsay, a Scottish poet.

People Who Died in 1686

• January 31 – Jean Mairet, a French writer of plays.
• February 10 – William Dugdale, an English expert on old things.
• April 6 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, an English royalist statesman.
• April 19 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, a Spanish writer.
• June 23 – William Coventry, an English statesman.
• July 10 – John Fell, an English churchman.
• July 16 – John Pearson, an English religious thinker.
• August 13 – Louis Maimbourg, a French historian.
• October 26 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, an English politician.
• November 11 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, a French general.
• November 11 – Otto von Guericke, a German physicist and inventor.

Images for kids

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  September 2: The Battle of Buda.

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  Hans Egede

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  Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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  Allan Ramsay

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  Eleonora Gonzaga

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