In 1685 he sent the Scottish and English mercenary regiments of his army to England to assist in putting down the Monmouth Rebellion.

In 1685, the Cardinal de Bouillon had refused to take part in the marriage of the Duke of Bourbon and Françoise Marie's sister, Mademoiselle de Nantes, and, as a result, had been sent into exile, but he was recalled for the wedding of Françoise-Marie and the Duke of Chartres.

In 1685, four battalions of cavalry were sent to the island and stationed at Marienborg.

The earliest colonists were, for the most part, from the lower, working class and displayed an indifferent attitude towards developing the colony, but after a commissioner that was sent out in 1685 to attract more settlers, a more dedicated group of immigrants began to arrive.

When he lay dying in 1685, he asked for Catherine, but she sent a message asking that her presence be excused, and " to beg his pardon if she had offended him all his life.

By the middle of February Newton had sent his paper to Aston, one of the secretaries of the Society, and in a letter to Aston dated 23 February 1685, Newton thanked him for " having entered on the register his notions about motion.

But the campaign of 1685 was a series of disasters, he was defeated at Prešov and when he sought help from the Turks at Nagyvárad they seized and sent him in chains to Edirne ( possibly because of his previous negotiations with Leopold ), whereupon most of his followers made their peace with the Emperor.

In 1685, King Louis XIV of France sent Marquis de Denonville to govern New France in Quebec.

Louis XIV sent de Chaumont and de Choisy to lead the French mission in 1685 to return the Siamese embassadors and to convert Narai to Catholicism.

After their first victory at Albazin in 1685, the Manchus sent two letters to the Tsar ( in Latin ) suggesting peace and demanding that Russian freebooters leave the Amur.

After the accession of James II in 1685, he was created Baron of Talbotstown, Viscount Baltinglass and Earl of Tyrconnell ( 2nd creation ), and sent as commander in chief of the forces in Ireland.

His father, Isaac Depew, was a merchant and farmer ; pioneer in river transportation between Peekskill and New York ; son of Abraham Depew, who served in the Revolutionary Army, and Catherine ( Crankheit ) Depew, great-grandson of Captain James Cronkite of the Continental Army ; descendant of Frangois DuPuy, a French Huguenot, who came to America about 1661, settled first in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1685 bought land from the Indians at the present site of Peekskill.

This remained in the family until about 1685 when Bryan Maginness died unmarried and his sister Ellen, who had married Captain William Hamilton of Ayrshire, inherited the land.

On the night of 30 April 1685, troops commanded by Captain John Graham of Claverhouse shot John Brown for Brown's refusal to take the 1684 Oath of Abjuration () or to swear not to rise in arms against the king.

* 1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English cavalry officer ( d. 1768 )

* February 1 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer ( b. 1685 )

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ( November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749 ) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer.

* Pierre Gaultier de Varennes ( 1685 – 1749 ), French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer

In 1685, on the accession of James II to the British throne, Hamilton was one of a small group of Catholic professional soldiers brought in to replace Protestants purged from the officer corps of the British army in Ireland.

Howard served with King James II of England's forces as an officer during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, before settling in Baltimore, Maryland.

* Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet ( 1613 – 1685 ), officer of the Royal Navy, sometimes known as Thomas Allen

Colonel Sir Richard Ingoldsby ( 10 August 1617 – 9 September 1685 ) was an English officer in the New Model Army during the English Civil War and a politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1685.

King James's policies of religious tolerance after 1685 met with increasing opposition by members of leading political circles, who were troubled by the king's Catholicism and his close ties with France.

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.

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.

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 ).

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

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.

In 1685, Kassel became a refuge for 1700 Huguenots who found shelter in the newly established borough of Oberneustadt.

Two famous transfers connected with the history of France are the expulsion of the Jews, 1308, and of the Huguenots who were declared illegal by the Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685.

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti ( 26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757 ) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

In 1685 Barbuda was leased to brothers Christopher and John Codrington, who had founded the town of Codrington.

Other suggestions include that it was named for James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth ( 1649 – 1685 ), who had many allies among the East Jersey leadership.

* Edmund Quincy ( 1628-1698 ), who built the Dorothy Quincy House ( 1685 )

William Kent ( 1685 – 1748 ), who took a leading role in designing the gardens, created one of the earliest examples of the English landscape garden on the property.

Burlington, himself a talented amateur architect and ( in the words of Horace Walpole ) " Apollo of the Arts ", designed the villa with the aid of William Kent ( 1685 – 1748 ), who took a leading role in designing the gardens.

The town was named for James, Duke of York, who would become King James II in 1685.

The year 1685 saw the second declaration, by James Renwick, who also took a large armed party into Sanquhar, frightening all the townspeople who thought a battle was coming.

One of the first settlers was Samuel Benedict who bought land from the Paquioque natives in 1685 along with his brother James, James Beebe, and Judah Gregory.

Blow, who by 1678 was a doctor of music, was named in 1685 one of the private musicians of James II.

At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3, 000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad.

He was now firmly established in the favour of the king, who gave him successively the abbacy of Saint-Séverin, in the diocese of Poitiers, the office of almoner to the Dauphine, and in 1685 the bishopric of Lavaur, from which he was in 1687 promoted to that of Nîmes.

During the " Bloody Assizes " in the autumn of 1685, in the aftermath of Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion men from Nether Stowey who were caught up in the rebellion are said to have been hanged, drawn and quartered in the village after they were sentenced to death by Judge Jeffries.

Brook Taylor FRS ( 18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731 ) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.

To regularise slavery, in 1685 Louis XIV had 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 his slaves.

In 1685, the almanac that Bradford printed for Atkins received immediate attention, especially from Pennsylvania Governor William Penn who took offense at a reference to him.