1686
* 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.
* A
hurricane saves
Charleston from attack by
Spanish vessels.
*
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)
*
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)
*
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
*
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)
