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

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

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.

Meanwhile, in October 1685 Louis signed the Edict of Fontainebleau ordering the destruction of all Protestant churches and schools in France.

Although edicts from King Louis XIV's court regularly came to the islands to suppress the Protestant " heretics ", these were mostly ignored by island authorities until Louis XIV's Edict of Revocation in 1685.

In 1685, Louis XIV signed into law the Code Noir ( Black Code ), which regulated slavery in the French colonies.

Louis XIV was staunchly Catholic and he revoked the Edict of Nantes on 18 October 1685, undoing the religious tolerance established by grandfather, Henry IV, almost a hundred years before.

In October 1685, Louis XIV, the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism illegal with the Edict of Fontainebleau.

Fort Saint Louis was established in Texas in 1685, but was gone by 1688.

Religious persecution in France became severe when King Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, which revoked the Edict of Nantes, that had given substantial rights to French Protestants.

In 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had previously granted various rights to French Protestants ; the subsequent royal crackdown was driven by the king's strongly anti-Protestant views.

* Maria Adelaide of Savoy ( 1685 – 1712 ); married Louis, Duke of Burgundy and had issue ;

Reparation faite à Louis XIV par le Doge de Gênes. 15 mai 1685 by Claude Guy Halle.

In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes and declared Protestantism to be illegal by the Edict of Fontainebleau.

As a Huguenot, Papin found himself greatly affected by the increasing restrictions placed on Protestants by Louis XIV of France and by the King's ultimate revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

* 1685 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle establishes Fort St. Louis.

The growing persecution of the Huguenots culminated with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685.

René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, established Fort Saint Louis as a French colony, from 1685 until 1689.

Finally, in October 1685, Louis issued the Edict of Fontainebleau, which formally revoked the Edict and made the practice of Protestantism illegal in France.

La Salle attempted to establish the first colony in the new territory in 1685, but inaccurate maps and navigational issues led him to instead establish his colony, Fort Saint Louis, in what is now Texas.

In 1685, King Louis XIV proclaimed " La Traite des Noirs ", which authorized the forcible removal of Africans from their homeland and their transport to work as slaves on the French sugar plantations.

When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Church began a campaign to send the greatest orators in the country into the regions of France with the highest concentration of Huguenots to persuade them of the errors of Protestantism.

In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes and declared Protestantism to be illegal in the Edict of Fontainebleau.

In 1685, his only surviving grandson, Louis de Bourbon, married Louise Françoise, Mademoiselle de Nantes-eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

Louis de Bourbon-Condé ( at that point known as the Duke of Bourbon ) had in 1685 married Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, the legitimated daughter of Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan.

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.

* Edict of Fontainebleau ( 1685 ), by Louis XIV of France.

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.

In 1685, Louis XIV gave the magnificent palace to Madame de Montespan.

The Edict of Fontainebleau ( October 1685 ) was an edict issued by Louis XIV of France, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Wolf published a number of important books, including France, 1815 to the Present ( 1940 ), The Emergence of the Great Powers ( 1685 – 1715 ) ( 1951 ), Toward a European Balance of Power ( 1640 – 1720 ) ( 1969 ) and his most important study, Louis XIV ( 1968 ).

The Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685 by King Louis XIV with the Edict of Fontainebleau, leading to renewed persecution of Protestants in France.

The Edict of Nantes, however, would be revoked in 1685 by Henry IV's grandson, Louis XIV, who once again proclaimed Protestantism to be illegal in France through the Edict of Fontainebleau.

In 1685 the Daciers were rewarded with a pension by Louis XIV of France for their conversion to Roman Catholicism.

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

It is not known just why Newton changed his mind so radically about the final form of what had been a readable narrative in ' De motu corporum, Liber secundus ' of 1685, but he largely started afresh in a new, tighter, and less accessible mathematical style, eventually to produce Book 3 of the ' Principia ' as we know it.

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 Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25 August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England.

In 1680, the first congregation of Nadars was started at Vaddakankulam with the conversion of Nadar women and a church was built accordingly in 1685.

King Houegbadja ( who ruled from 1645 to 1685 ), the third King of Dahomey, is said to have originally started the group which would become the Amazons as a corps of elephant hunters called the gbeto.

The island has a historic fort built between 1685 and 1693 as part of the national fortification program masterminded by Vauban.