1686

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 (d. 1736)
• June 9 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
• George Clinton (royal governor), governor of New York

Deaths

• November 11 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
• November 20 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist, inventor (b. 1602)