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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 Saint League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
• September 2 The forces of the Saint 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)

Deaths

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