By 1685, the Duchy of Simmern had passed to the Palatinate-Neuburg line.

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 1685, the western border was finally established by King James II ; this was set as a line from Old Cape Henlopen ( presently Fenwick ) west to the middle of the peninsula and north up to the middle of the peninsula to the 40th parallel of Latitude.

The town line with Norwalk was not set until May 1685.

Upon the extinction of the senior dynasty ruling the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1685, the Neuburg line inherited the Electorate and generally made Düsseldorf its capital until the Elector Palatine also inherited the Electorate of Bavaria in 1777.

When Karl ’ s son, Karl II died in 1685, though, there was further upheaval, for with him the Palatine line of the Wittelsbachs had died out, and France was now declaring rights of possession.

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.

Heinrich Telemann died in 1685, leaving Maria to raise the children and oversee their education.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

When Charles II died in 1685, Anne's father became king as James II in England and Ireland and James VII in Scotland.

# Margrave Frederick Augustus of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 3 January 1685 – 30 January 1685 ) died in infancy.

Though Major Jasper Farmer died before making the voyage to his new land, his widow and family sailed, with servants, to Philadelphia in 1685.

During the journey, La Salle built several trading posts in the Illinois Country in an effort to create a trading empire ; however, before La Salle could fully implement his plans, he died on a second journey to the region during a mutiny in 1685.

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.

He was of a retiring disposition and moderate views, and died in 1685.

* March 2-Thomas Otway, dramatist ( died 1685 )

* February 11-Ivan Ančić, theologian ( died 1685 )

* February 12 – Daniello Bartoli, Jesuit writer ( died 1685 )

22 July 1645 married 1stly Baroness Brita Horn of Åminne ( died 1685 ).

In February 1685, King Charles II died, without legitimate issue, and George's father-in-law, the Roman Catholic Duke of York, became king as James II in England and Ireland and James VII in Scotland.

Charles II died in 1685 and he was succeeded by his brother James II.

Whether this account of his death be true or not, it is certain that he died in the utmost poverty, and was buried on 16 April 1685 in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes.

The Academy was founded in Fontainebleau in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte near Paris in the buildings of the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, a school founded in 1685 by Louis XIV for impoverished daughters of noblemen who had died for France.

Acheson died in 1685 and was succeeded by his son, Archibald.

* Bernard de Gomme, Dutch military engineer ( died 1685 )

* March 1-John Pell, English mathematician ( died 1685 )

* March 1-John Pell, English mathematician ( died 1685 )

He died in 1685, and was buried in York Minster.

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.

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

In 1685 surveyors laid out Wall Street along the lines of the original stockade.

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.

During the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, the Duke of Monmouth was welcomed when he passed through Shepton Mallet, staying in Longbridge House in Cowl Street on the night of 23 June, with his men quartered throughout the town, before setting out for Bristol the following day.

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.

A 1685 account describes it as being made of boulders simply heaped up on each other: " an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner.

This was commuted to beheading, with the sentence being carried out in Winchester market-place on 2 September 1685.

He had a high reputation as a Grecian, a Latinist and a philologist, and he brought out with the collaboration of others his an edition of St Cyprian in 1682, an English translation of The Unity of the Church in 1681, editions of Nemesius of Emesa ( 1671 ), of Aratus and of Eratosthenes ( 1672 ), Theocritus ( 1676 ), Alcinous on Plato ( 1677 ), St Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians ( 1677 ), Athenagoras ( 1682 ), Clemens Alexandrinus ( 1683 ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 1684 ), Grammatica rationis sive institutiones logicae ( 1673 and 1685 ), and a critical edition of the New Testament in 1675.

He brought out, in his own name, a collection of catches in 1685 ; ' The Dancing Master ' of 1686 was the last work for which he was responsible.

By 1685 most of the Russians had been driven out of the area.

( Local folklore used to associate the name with the aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, when Judge Jeffreys supposedly ran out of gibbets.

In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV ( 1654 – 1715 ), which had legalized freedom of religion of the Reformed Church, caused the emigration out of France of three hundred thousand Huguenots ( French Calvinists ), to other countries of Europe and to North America.

Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell had been summoned to London from the command of the military forces in Ireland about the date when Clarendon set out for Dublin ( December 1685 ).

He was nominated professor of hydrography at Marseilles in 1685, and in that capacity carried out various coast surveys.

In 1685 he published Sentimens de quelques thologiens de Hollande sur l ' histoire critique du Vieux Testament composée par le P. Richard Simon, in which, while pointing out what he believed to be Richard Simon's faults, he advanced views of his own.