Major Events
- Feb 15 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide" premieres in Paris
- May 4 Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines
- Jun 20 A French force led by Pierre de Troyes retakes Fort Monsoni (Moose Factory) from the English, on James Bay, Canada [1]
- Jul 9 Germany, Sweden and Spain sign anti-French League of Augsburg
- Jul 17 A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
- Jul 22 City of Albany, NY chartered
- Aug 18 Giovanni Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
- Sep 2 Habsburg armies take Buda from Turks
- Nov 18 Charles François Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants.
- Dec 19 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's fictional character, leaves his island after 28 years of being marooned (according to the famous novel)
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Who Died in 1686
- Jan 21 Nicolas-François Blondel, French architect, dies
- Jan 31 Jean Mairet, French dramatist famous for tragedies (Sophonisbe) and comedies, dies at 81
- Feb 8 Francois Tak, Dutch diplomat on Java, murdered
- Feb 10 William Dugdale, English antiquarian and Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies at 80
- Feb 24 Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
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