Besides the tract already mentioned Coventry was the author of A Letter to Dr Burnet giving an Account of Cardinal Pools Secret Powers ... ( 1685 ).

In 1685 Bernier visited London where he met with some famous exiles from France: Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, niece of the redoubtable Cardinal ; Saint-Evremond ; others.

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 ).

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 ).

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.

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.

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* December 5 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer and trader ( b. 1685 )

* November 18 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist ( b. 1685 )

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 ).

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 ).

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain ), was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.

* Oraison funèbre d ' Anne de Gonzague, princesse Palatine ( 1685 )

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

After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, several Huguenot families of Norman and Carolingian nobility and descent including Edmund Bohun of Suffolk England from the Humphrey de Bohun line of French royalty descended from Charlemange, Jean Postell of Dieppe France, Alexander Pepin, Antoine Poitevin of Orsement France, and Jacques de Bordeaux of Grenoble, immigrated to the Charleston Orange district and were very successful at marriage and property speculation.

In May 1685 the duc de Chartres, then just ten years old, made his first public appearance at Versailles ; the occasion was the arrival of the Doge of Genoa, Francesco Maria Lercari Imperiale, at the French court.

He secured the patronage of the influential duchesse de Bouillon by dedicating Arminius to her, and in 1685 he scored his first success with Andronic, which disguised under other names the tragic story of Don Carlos and Elizabeth of France.

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

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 he had already hired out 3, 000 Saxon nationals for 120, 000 thalers to the Republic of Venice for their war in Morea on the Greek Peloponnese Peninsula.

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.

This had some amendments relative to Newton's manuscript of 1685, mostly to remove cross-references that used obsolete numbering to cite the propositions of an early draft of Book 1 of the Principia.

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

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.

His grandfather, James II of England and VII of Scotland, had ruled the country from 1685 to 1689, at which time he was deposed when Parliament invited the Dutch Protestant, William of Orange and his wife the Princess Mary ( King James ' eldest daughter ) to replace him, in the Revolution of 1688.

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.

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Schomberg had formerly been a Marshal of France, but, being a Huguenot, was compelled to leave France in 1685 because of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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

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.

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.

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.

It was constructed of stone between 1685 and 1690 and had four towers.

John and Mary Evelyn had eight children: Richard ( 1652 – 1658 ), John Standsfield ( 1653 – 1654 ), John ( the younger ) ( 1655 – 1699 ), George ( 1657 – 1658 ), Richard ii ( 1664 ), Mary ( 1665 – 1685 ), Elizabeth ( 1667 – 1685 ) and Susanna ( 1669 – 1754 ).

He died on 28 July 1685, and was buried at Euston, where he had bought a large estate and had carried out extensive building operations.

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.

Country parties had been formed before, for instance after the king's speech to Parliament in November 1685, but Bolingbroke was the first to state the need for a continual opposition to the government.

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.

In the year 1685 the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb dispatched his son Muhammad Azam Shah with a force of nearly 50, 000 men to capture Bijapur Fort and defeat Sikandar Adil Shah the ruler of Bijapur who refused to be a vassal.

He refused to support James II's measures against the established church in 1685.

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London where, under the sanction of King James II, he opened a church for the French exiles.

On King Charles II's death in February 1685 Monmouth led the " Monmouth Rebellion ", landing with three ships at Lyme Regis in Dorset in early June 1685 in an attempt to take the throne from his uncle.

Jean Le Clerc, in his 1685 work Sentimens de quelques théologiens de Hollande, controverted the views of Simon acutely, and claimed that an uninformed reader might take Simon to be any of a Calvinist, Jew or crypto-Spinozan ; Bossuet made a point of banning this also, as even more harmful than Simon's book.

In 1685, three years after Barclay had been made the nonresident governor of the Province of East Jersey ( part of the present-day American state of New Jersey ), Keith traveled there to take the post of Surveyor-General.

Although appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Rochester did not take up this position ; he was still President of the Council when James II became king in February 1685, and he was at once appointed to the important office of Lord Treasurer.

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.