* 1686 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( d. 1748 )

:* John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( 1686 – 1703 ), elder son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried

* 1612 – John Pearson, English theologian ( d. 1686 )

* 1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician ( d. 1686 )

* 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( b. 1686 )

* May 30 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician ( d. 1686 )

* February 28 – John Pearson, English theologian ( d. 1686 )

* September 21 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( b. 1686 )

John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 18 October 1654 – 22 March 1686 ) succeeded his father Albert II as margrave of Ansbach in 1667.

* John Holwell ( 1649 – 1686?

A group of 13 men from Roxbury, Massachusetts ( home of the Pastorate of Woodstock's earlier visitor, John Eliot ), settled the town in 1686 and named it New Roxbury.

The grist mill built by John Pine in 1686 on Milburn Creek attracted more settlers who engaged in fishing, farming, marshing, raising longwood, and breeding and raising sheep.

* John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( 13 Feb 1686 – 20 Feb 1703 )

Another daughter, Anne, arrived in 1684, followed by John in 1686, Elizabeth in 1687, Mary in 1689, and Charles in 1690 who lived for only two years.

John Balguy ( August 12, 1686 – September 21, 1748 ) was an English divine and philosopher.

* Historia Plantarum is the title of a book by John Ray, published in 1686.

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.

To say nothing of minor opponents, such as " Philaretus " ( Gilbert Burnet, already alluded to ), Dr John Balguy ( 1686 – 1748 ), prebendary of Salisbury, the author of two tracts on " The Foundation of Moral Goodness ", and Dr John Taylor ( 1694 – 1761 ) of Norwich, a minister of considerable reputation in his time ( author of An Examination of the Scheme of Amorality advanced by Dr Hutcheson ), the essays appear to have suggested, by antagonism, at least two works that hold a permanent place in the literature of English ethics — Butler's Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue, and Richard Price's Treatise of Moral Good and Evil ( 1757 ).

* John Pearson ( bishop ) ( 1612 – 1686 ), English theologian, scholar, and Bishop of Chester

In addition he held a series of prestigious positions as maestro for Basilica dei Santi Apostoli, Rome ( from 1686 ), at St. John Lateran ( from 1708, where Palestrina had served from 1555 to 1560 ), and for the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter ’ s ( from 1719, immediately following Domenico Scarlatti ), and maestro di cappella at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome.

John Fell ( 23 June 1625 – 10 July 1686 ) was an English churchman and influential academic.

** the island of Kastellorizo ( like Rhodes a part of the Aegean Dodecanese island group ) was taken by the Knights of St. John Hospitaller of Jerusalem in 1309 ; the Egyptians occupied it from 1440 until 1450 ; then the Kingdom of Naples ruled ; Venetian rule began in 1635 ( as Castellorosso ); all these states, excluding the Egyptians, were Catholic ; Ottoman rule was established in 1686, although Greeks controlled the island during the Greek War of Independence from 1821-1833.

Thomas Carte ( also John Carte ) ( 1686 – 2 April 1754 ) was an English historian.

" Ray also published Willughby's De Historia piscium ( 1686 ).

John Ray ( 1686 – 1704 ) provided the first definition of " species " in his " Historia Plantarum ": a species is a set of individuals who give rise through reproduction to new individuals similar to themselves.

Jim Allan ( An introduction to Elvish, ISBN 0-905220-10-2 ) compared the tengwar with the Universal Alphabet of Francis Lodwick of 1686, both on grounds of the correspondence between shape features and sound features, and of the actual letter shapes.

The title of Radnor later descended to his son, Charles ( 1660 – 1723 ), who was mentioned by Jonathan Swift in his Journal to Stella, and it became extinct on the death of the fourth earl, John Robartes ( 1686 – 1757 ), eldest son of Francis Robartes

Coursing the hare, Francis Barlow ( artist ) | Francis Barlow, 1686 Whether for sporting or hunting purposes, hare coursing was in Europe historically restricted to landowners and the nobility, who used sighthounds, the ownership of which was at certain historic times prohibited among the lower social classes.

Coursing the Hare, illustration by Francis Barlow to Richard Blome's The Gentleman's Recreation, 1686

Mather's first published sermon, which appeared in 1686, concerned the crime and punishment of James Morgan, a reprobate who in a drunken rage impaled a man with an iron spit.

Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit priests, he was converted to Protestantism in 1682 and came to abjure popery, and published Protestancy proved Safer than Popery ( 1686 ).

Excerpt from Josiah King's The Examination and Tryal of Father Christmas ( 1686 ), published shortly after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England.

" The play was a huge success and was revived in 1686, and published the following year.

Early climate researchers include Edmund Halley, who published a map of the trade winds in 1686 after a voyage to the southern hemisphere.

Having returned to Leipzig in 1686, he published anonymously ( two years later ) his first work, Scriptorum recentiorum decas, an attack on ten writers of the day.

This use first appeared publicly in his paper De Geometria, published in Acta Eruditorum of June 1686, but he had been using it in private manuscripts at least since 1675.

By 1686 the model was well enough established that the general public was reading about it in Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, published in France by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and translated into English and other languages in the coming years.

In 1686, Bayle published the first two volumes of Philosophical Commentary, an early plea for toleration in religious matters.

Of importance, there was a Jesuit Catechism from 1618, with a second edition from 1686 ; another grammar written in 1687 by another Jesuit priest, Luís Figueira ; an anonymous dictionary ( again published by the Jesuits ) from 1795 ; a dictionary published by Antônio Gonçalves Dias, a well-known 19th Century Brazilian poet and scholar, in 1858 ; and a chrestomathy published by Dr. Ernesto Ferreira França in 1859.

Title page, Historia piscium, published at Oxford, 1686.

This use first appeared publicly in his paper De Geometria, published in Acta Eruditorum of June 1686, but he had been using it in private manuscripts at least since 1675.

John Playford ( 1623 – 1686 / 7 ) was a London bookseller, publisher, minor composer, and member of the Stationers ' Company, who published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments, and psalters with tunes for singing in churches.

Isaac Newton composed Principia Mathematica during 1685 and 1686, and it was published in a first edition on July 5th, 1687 and began changing the world.

In 1686, he published the first part of his famous Travels ( Account of his Second Travel to Persia ).

In 1686 her collected works were published in 19 volumes by the Amsterdam publisher John Wetstein.

Her writings, containing an account of her life and of her visions and opinions, were collected by her disciple, Pierre Poiret ( 19 vols, Amsterdam, 1679 – 1686 ), who also published her life ( 2 vols, 1683 ):

* Pieces for 1 and 2 viols, Book I ( 20 August 1686, only solo viols, 1 March 1689 first published with associated basso continuo )