1686

Years: 1683 1684 1685 - 1686 - 1687 1688 1689
Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1686 in literature 1686 in science 1686 state leaders

Events

The League of Augsburg is founded.
Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
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.
New York City and Albany, New York are granted city charters by the colonial governor.

Births

May 24 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist, inventor (+ 1736)
June 9 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (+ 1747)
George Clinton (royal governor), governor of New York

Deaths

November 20 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist, inventor (*1602)

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