Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685 – 1757 ) began his career in Italy but wrote most of his solo harpsichord works in Spain ; his most famous work is his series of 555 harpsichord sonatas.

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.

Telemann wrote choral cantatas for Frankfurt ( later published in solo versions as the Harmonische Gottesdienst ) and Graupner cycles for Darmstadt, but Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) made a truly monumental contribution: his obituary mentions five complete cycles of his cantatas, of which three, comprising some 200 works, are known today, in addition to motets.

Tokugawa-era rōnin scholar and strategist Yamaga Sokō ( 1622 – 1685 ) wrote extensively on matters relating to bushidō, bukyō ( a " warrior's creed "), and a more general shido, a " way of gentlemen " intended for application to all stations of society.

The Christian philosopher George Berkeley ( 1685 – 1753 ), in his campaign against the religious implications of Newtonian mechanics, wrote a pamphlet on the lack of rational justifications of infinitesimal calculus: “ They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing.

He adapted Robert Cambert's opera Ariadne for a London performance in 1674, and wrote music for John Dryden's Albion and Albanius in 1685.

During the reign of Charles II ( 1660 – 1685 ), playwrights such as John Dryden, George Etherege, Aphra Behn, and William Wycherley wrote comedies that triumphantly reassert aristocratic dominance and prestige after the years of middle class power during Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth.

Initially published in Latin ( De Anima Brutorum, 1672 ) but later translated to English ( The London Practice of Physick, 1685 ), Willis wrote:

* Purcell wrote a setting of it for the coronation of King James II in 1685

The astronomer Johannes Hevelius wrote a volume under the title Annus climactericus ( 1685 ), describing the loss he sustained in the burning of his observatory in 1679, which he considered climacteric because it was 49 years after the beginning of his observing career.

La Hire wrote on graphical methods, 1673 ; on conic sections, 1685 ; a treatise on epicycloids, 1694 ; one on roulettes, 1702 ; and, lastly, another on conchoids, 1708.

The Abbé de Choisy, who was part of the first French embassy to Thailand in 1685, wrote about M. Phaulkon's character:

In 1683 he assisted the Imperialists in Hungary, and while there he wrote some letters in which he referred to Louis XIV as le roi du théâtre ; because of this and because of an early engagement at the side of the Turks in 1685, on his return to France he was temporarily banished to Chantilly.

The Percy miscellany also quotes a pastoral poem by John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ), who wrote that:

He also assisted Brian Walton with the English Polyglot Bible and himself wrote Summa Logicae ( published posthumously in 1685 ).

During his imprisonment in 1679 Arundell wrote five short religious poems, published in a single folio sheet in 1679, and reissued in A Collection of Eighty-six Loyal Poems in 1685.

In 1685, the English diplomat and writer Sir William Temple wrote an essay Upon the garden of Epicurus ( published in 1692 ), which contrasted European theories of symmetrical gardens with asymmetrical compositions from China.

He modified the manual fire engines, reorganised the volunteer fire brigade ( 1685 ) and wrote and illustrated the first firefighting manual ( Brandspuiten-boek ).

Jared Eliot ( November 7, 1685 — April 22, 1763 ) was a farmer, minister and physician in Guilford, Connecticut who wrote several articles on agriculture and animal husbandry.

In 1685, the English diplomat and writer Sir William Temple wrote an essay Upon the garden of Epicurus ( published in 1692 ), which contrasted European theories of symmetrical gardens with asymmetrical compositions from China.

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.

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.

Among the early writings of Abbadie were four Sermons sur divers Textes de l ' Ecriture, 1680 ; Réflexions sur la Présence réelle du Corps de Jésus-Christ dans l ' Eucharistie, 1685 ; and two highly adulatory addresses on persons in high stations, entitled respectively Panégyrique de Monseigneur l ' Electeur de Brandebourg, 1684 ; and Panégyrique de Marie Stuart, Reine d ' Angleterre, d ' Ecosse, de France, et d ' Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694, 1695, also published in England as A Panegyric on our late Sovereign Lady, 1695.

Other Rococo painters include: Jean François de Troy ( 1679 – 1752 ), Jean-Baptiste van Loo ( 1685 – 1745 ), his two sons Louis-Michel van Loo ( 1707 – 1771 ) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ( 1719 – 1795 ), his younger brother Charles-André van Loo ( 1705 – 1765 ), and Nicolas Lancret ( 1690 – 1743 ).

The two kingdoms, which had enjoyed peaceful relations prior to 1685, became bitter enemies and fought against each other in a series of wars ( called the " Second Hundred Years ' War " by some historians ) from 1689 onward.

Although an accommodation between the two sides was sealed in 1598 by the Edict of Nantes, religious privileges of Huguenots eroded during the seventeenth century and were extinguished in 1685 by the revocation of the edict.

On 6 July 1685 the two armies met at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last clear-cut pitched battle on open ground between two military forces fought on English soil: Monmouth's makeshift force could not compete with the regular army, and was soundly defeated.

There were eleven editions of the first part in John Bunyan's lifetime, published in successive years from 1678 to 1685 and in 1688, and there were two editions of the second part, published in 1684 and 1686.

Following the death of his first wife he married to Lady Mary Somerset, Lady of the Bedchamber and daughter of the Duke of Beaufort and Mary Capel in 1685 ; they had a son and two daughters.

They had two children, Louis Armand ( 1661 – 1685 ), and François Louis ( 1664 – 1709 ).

* Catherine ( August 1685 – June 1763 ), two children from her first marriage and one from her second to General Michael Rothe

One or two prefaces, and two posthumous pieces, a poem, Windsor Castle ( 1685 ), a panegyric of Charles II, and a History of the Triumvirates ( 1686 ), translated from the French, complete the list of Otway's works.

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.

He also composed songs for two plays by Nahum Tate ( later the librettist of Dido and Aeneas ), The Sicilian Usurper ( 1680 ) and Cuckold-Haven ( 1685 ).

The Bach family was of importance in the history of music for nearly two hundred years, with over 50 known musicians and several notable composers, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ).

It was formed as a fusilier regiment in 1685 by Lord Dartmouth, George Legge, from two companies of the Tower of London guard, and was originally called the Ordnance Regiment.

Mary Noel, on 7 March 1685 ; they had two children together, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset and Mary Sackville ( 1690 – 1705 ).

The town was held by the Turks for two decades from 1663 to 1685.

This led to his trial for libel, and on 20 June 1685 he received sentence to stand in the pillory on two consecutive days, be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and two days later from Newgate to Tyburn.

His oldest son by his third marriage, William Coddington, Jr. was the governor of the colony for two terms from 1683 to 1685.

St Mary's Church, WoottonThe church is mainly 14th century but contains two fine monuments in the chancel to members of the Monoux family who died in 1685 and 1707.