What is 1686?
{{Year nav|1686}} {{Year in various calendars|1686}} {{Year article header|1686}} == Events == * [[May 4]] – The [[Municipality]] of Ilagan was founded in the [[Philippines]]. * [[July 17]] – A meeting took place at [[Lüneburg]] between 'some evangelical Princes and Electors' and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark and the Queen of England. The object of this meeting is the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence against the Catholic League, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae'.<ref>Statement is made on folio 35 of the dedication of the ''Naometria'' to the Duke of Wurttemberg, repeated on folio 122. Cf. A.E. Waite, ''Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross'', London, 1924, pp. 639 ff.</ref> * [[July 22]] – [[New York City]] and [[Albany, New York]] are granted city charters by the colonial governor.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} * [[September 2]] – The forces of the Holy League of [[1684]] liberate Buda from the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkish]] rule that leads to the end of Turkish rule in [[Hungary]] during the subsequent years.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} === Undated === * The [[League of Augsburg]] ([[:en:League of Augsburg|en]]) is founded. * [[Russia]], [[Saxony]], [[Brandenburg]] and [[Bavaria]] join the Holy League against the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkish Empire]]. * A group of conspirators met at Charborough House in [[Dorset]] to plan the overthrow of king [[James II of England]] by Parliamentarians and the Dutch [[William III of Orange-Nassau]]. * A [[hurricane]] saves [[Charleston, South Carolina]], from attack by [[Spain|Spanish]] vessels. == Births == * [[January 16]] – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (died [[1766]]) * [[January 31]] – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (died [[1758]]) * [[April 9]] – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (died [[1721]]) * [[April 28]] – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (died [[1721]]) * [[April 29]] – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (died [[1742]]) * [