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Birth
1685 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1685- 1685
- 1685
- 1685
1685
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16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: |
1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s |
| Years: |
1682 1683 1684 - 1685 - 1686 1687 1688 |
| 1685 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works
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Year 1685 (MDCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Contents
- 1 Events of 1685
- 1.1 January - June
- 1.2 July - December
- 1.3 Undated
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
- 4 References
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- February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland.
- February 18 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay, thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
- February 20 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near (Texas Handbook).
- March – Louis XIV of France passes the "Code Noir", allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies.
- June 20 - Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland declares himself King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland, after already forming his own army and campaigning against his uncle.
- July 6 - Monmouth Rebellion- Battle of Sedgemoor: The armies of King James II of England defeat rebel forces under Monmouth. and capture the Duke himself, shortly after the battle.
- July 15 - The Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, London.
- October 18-19 - Louis XIV declares the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal.
- The Chinese army of the Qing Dynasty attacks a Russian post at Albazin, during the reigns of the Kangxi Emperor and the dual Russian rulers Ivan V of Russia and Peter I of Russia. The events lead to the Treaty of Nerchinsk.[1]
- Adam Baldridge founds a pirate base in St Mary Island in the Madagascar.
- On a trading expedition to the Mississippi, explorer Michel Mathieu Brunet dit Lestang discovers La Baie des Puants (present-day Green Bay, Wisc.).
1685 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1685
MDCLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita |
2438 |
| Armenian calendar |
1134
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-159 – -158 |
| Berber calendar |
2635 |
| Buddhist calendar |
2229 |
| Burmese calendar |
1047 |
| Byzantine calendar |
7193 – 7194 |
| Chinese calendar |
甲子年十一月廿七日
(4321/4381-11-27)
— to —
乙丑年十二月初六日
(4322/4382-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar |
1401 – 1402 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1677 – 1678 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5445 – 5446 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1740 – 1741 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1607 – 1608 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4786 – 4787 |
| Holocene calendar |
11685 |
| Iranian calendar |
1063 – 1064 |
| Islamic calendar |
1096 – 1097 |
| Japanese calendar |
Jōkyō 2
(貞享2年) |
| Korean calendar |
4018 |
| Thai solar calendar |
2228 |
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- January 7 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
- January 9 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
- February 8 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
- February 10 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
- February 23 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
- March 12 - George Berkeley, English philosopher (d. 1753)
- March 18 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
- March 21 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
- June 30 - John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
- July 3 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
- August 18 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
- October 1 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
- October 26 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
- November 17 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
- December 17 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
- See also Category: 1685 births.
- January 2 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
- February 6 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (b. 1630)
- February 11 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
- February 24 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
- March 22 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
- May 26 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
- July 15 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (beheaded) (b. 1649)
- July 28 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
- September 1 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625)
- October 12 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
- October 30 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
- December 12 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
- date unknown
- Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard (b. 1655)
- See also Category: 1685 deaths.
- ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
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