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 topic: | |
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, Dutch physicist and inventor (d. 1736)
- June 9 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
Deaths
- November 11 РLouis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond̩, French general (b. 1621)
- November 20 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor (b. 1602)
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