1686 - Definition and Overview

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

Deaths

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