* 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer ( b. 1685 )

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

* 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman ( d. 1685 )

* 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic ( b. 1685 )

Didier Diderot ( 1685 – 1759 ), a painting by an unknown artist.

* 1685 – Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France ( d. 1712 )

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier ( b. 1685 )

A generation later, the Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley ( 1685 – 1753 ), determined that Locke's view immediately opened a door that would lead to eventual atheism.

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German / British Baroque composer ( d. 1759 )

* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

* 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

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For the next two years Eugene continued to perform with distinction on campaign, and establish himself as a dedicated, professional soldier ; by the end of 1685, still only 22 years old, he was made a Major-General.

The first novel to expose the complex play that the genre allows was Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which appeared in three volumes in 1684, 1685, and 1687.

His father died when he was but two years of age ; and when, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the authorities took steps to have him educated in the Roman Catholic faith, his mother contrived his escape.

The English Civil War ( also known as the Great Rebellion ) was still within living memory for most of the major English participants in the events of 1688, and for them, in comparison to that war ( or even the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 ) the deaths in the conflict of 1688 were mercifully few.

When James inherited the English throne in 1685, he had much support in the ' Loyal Parliament ', which was composed mostly of Tories.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music.

Handel was born in 1685 in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, to Georg Händel and Dorothea Taust.

To regularize slavery, in 1685 Louis XIV enacted the Code Noir, which accorded certain human rights to slaves and responsibilities to the master, who was obliged to feed, clothe, and provide for the general well-being of their slaves.

After the death of Charles II in 1685, his Catholic brother King James II & VII was crowned.

In 1685, he wrote two of his finest anthems, " I was glad " and " My heart is inditing ", for the coronation of King James II.

Perhaps the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), whose solo works ( for instance, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations ), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.

In 1685 Charles II was succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, James II and VII.

This was published by subscription in Amsterdam in 1660 with a second edition in 1685.

Perhaps the most important influence on the development of koto was Yatsuhashi Kengyo ( 1614 – 1685 ).

The law, originally conceived by French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert prior to his death in 1683, was finalized by his son the Marquis de Seignelay and presented to the King for his signature in 1685.

In the meantime, the polyphonic capability of the violin was firmly established through the Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001 – 1006 of Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ).

The history of Potsdamer Platz can probably be traced back to 29 October 1685, when the Tolerance Edict of Potsdam was signed, whereby Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688, allowed large numbers of religious refugees, including Jews from Austria and Huguenots expelled from France, to settle on his territory.

Joseph Clement was not only the candidate of Emperor Leopold I ( 1658 – 1705 ) but of all European rulers, with the exception of the King of France and his supporter, King James II of England ( 1685 – 88 ).

He was appointed physician to James II in 1685, but the revolution deprived him of the post.

Gottfried Leibniz ( 1646 – 1716 ), building on Pascal's work, became one of the most prolific inventors in the field of mechanical calculators ; he was the first to describe a pinwheel calculator in 1685 and invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.

The provision was largely inspired by the case in England of Titus Oates who, after the ascension of King James II in 1685, was tried for multiple acts of perjury which had caused many executions of people whom Oates had wrongly accused.

The historical record shows that there was an outbreak of yellow fever in Recife, Brazil between 1685 and 1690.

German music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ).

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

* 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer ( d. 1750 )

* July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer ( b. 1685 )

* April 14 – George Frideric Handel, German composer ( b. 1685 )

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; pronounced ) ( born in Germany, 1685 ), became a prominent German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Many later settlers were of German origin and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, French Huguenot refugees.

During the second half of the 17th century, German composers started pairing preludes ( or sometimes toccatas ) with fugues in the same key ; Johann Pachelbel ( c. 1653 – 1706 ) was one of the first to do so, although Johann Sebastian Bach's ( 1685 – 1750 ) " prelude and fugue " pieces are much more numerous and well-known today.

The resulting Truce of Ratisbon guaranteed the extended borders of France for twenty years, but Louis XIV's subsequent actions – notably his revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and his attempt to extend his influence in the German Rhineland – led to the deterioration of his military and political dominance.

The Grand Alliance gained enormous cultural and political importance as an example of a possible European union supported by ( most of ) the German territories, Britain and the Netherlands as well as by many French intellectuals dissatisfied with the absolutist rule of Louis XIV, the eviction of the Huguenots in 1685 and the union of Catholicism and the French crown at home.

The Art of Fugue ( or The Art of the Fugue, original German: Die Kunst der Fuge ), BWV 1080, is a supposedly incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ).

In 1685, the Elgin burgh council called upon a German engineer, Peter Brauss, to look at the viability of providing a harbour at the mouth of the River Lossie ; he decided that a harbour could be established.

* March 22 – Georg Lenck, German musician ( born 1685 )

The first Czech translation was published in the 1685 quadrilingual edition ( together with Latin, German and Hungarian ), by the Breuer publishing house in Levoča.

Dominikus Zimmermann ( June 30, 1685, Gaispoint – November 16, 1766, Wies ) was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist.

* Johann Heinrich Roos ( September 29, 1631-October 3, 1685 ), a German Baroque era painter and etcher

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann ( May 3, 1662-January 17, 1736 ) was a German master builder who helped to rebuild Dresden after the fire of 1685.

Anthony Ulrich ( German: Anton Ulrich ; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum ) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.