In 1686, the pietist Philipp Jakob Spener became the court chaplain in Dresden.

After a bout of typhus in 1686, Vico accepted a tutoring position in Vatolla ( a Frazione of the comune of Perdifumo ), south of Salerno, that would last for nine years.

In 1686 he accepted the invitation to the first court chaplaincy at Dresden.

Prideaux married and left Oxford for Norwich, ahead of James II's appointment ( October 1686 ) of John Massey, a Roman Catholic, as Dean of Christ Church.

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 ).

While at Berlin he made several visits to the Netherlands, in 1684, 1686, and 1688, chiefly for the purpose of superintending the printing of several of his works, including the Traité de la Vérité, 1684.

The 1686 church law ( kyrkolagen ) of the Kingdom of Sweden ( which at the time included all of modern Sweden, Finland, and Estonia ) enforced literacy on the people, and by 1800 the ability to read was close to 100 %.

Halley was at that time a Fellow and Council member of the Royal Society in London, ( positions that in 1686 he resigned in order to become the Society's paid Clerk ).

Other evidence also shows Newton's absorption in the Principia: Newton for years kept up a regular programme of chemical or alchemical experiments, and he normally kept dated notes of them, but for a period from May 1684 to April 1686, Newton's chemical notebooks have no entries at all.

The text of the first of the three books of the Principia was presented to the Royal Society at the close of April, 1686.

On 2 June 1686 Chartres was invested with the Order of the Holy Spirit at Versailles ; on the same day his future brother-in-law, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine, also joined the order as did his cousins Louis III, prince de Condé and François Louis, Prince de Conti.

His successor as maestro di cappella at the Collegio Germanico in 1686, describes him as: very frugal in his domestic affairs, very noble manners towards friends and acquaintances, tall, thin, and prone to melancholy.

Historic buildings and sites within the district include the Kingston town hall ; the Josiah Bartlett House, home of a signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ; the First Universalist Church ; the Sanborn Seminary ; The 1686 House restaurant ; the Masonic building ; the Cemetery at the Plains ( where Josiah Bartlett is buried ); and the Church on the Plains.

A survey made in 1686 states, " note this Land hath a House on it, built by Joseph Brown and Thomas Brown, either of them having an equal share of it " located at the present southwest corner of Tillou Road and Ridgewood Road.

The first Acadians to settle in present day Hants County ( known as Pisiguit ) established farms at ( present day Falmouth ) in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census shows a number of families on well established farms utilizing dyked pastures.

In 1686, however, he was designated as the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mantua and worked there for the rest of his life.

The stallion is believed to have been captured by Captain Robert Byerley at the Battle of Buda ( 1686 ), served as Byerley's war horse when he was dispatched to Ireland in 1689 during King William's War and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne.

The legends include tales that it was invented in Europe to celebrate the defeat of the Umayyad forces at the Battle of Tours by the Franks in 732, with the shape representing the Islamic crescent ; that it was invented in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Ottomans by Christian forces in the siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Ottoman flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm ; tales linking croissants with the kifli and the siege of Buda in 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 ).

Arent's nephew, Abraham De Peyster, was a loyalist Officer who served with the King's American Regiment and was at Battle of King's Mountain ; Abraham was married to Catherine Livingston, a granddaughter of Philip Livingston ( 1686 – 1749, and 2nd Lord of the Manor ).

The works of the gallery of Apollo in the Louvre were interrupted in 1677 when he accompanied the king to Flanders ( on his return from Lille he painted several compositions in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye ), and finally — for they remained unfinished at his death — by the vast labours of Versailles, where he reserved for himself the Halls of War and Peace ( Salons de la Guerreand de la Paix, 1686 ), the Ambassadors ' Staircase, and the Great Hall of Mirrors ( Galerie des Glaces, 1679 – 1684 ).

Texelii, appeared at Rotterdam in 1686 ( 2 vols.

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.

He died on 11 November 1686 at the age of sixty-five.

In mid 1686, Louise Françoise ( later better known as Madame la Duchesse ) caught smallpox while at Fontainebleau ; it was the Prince himself who helped nurse the little Duchess back to health, to the point of staying up with her to help her eat.

The rows of freebooting grew bigger ; plundering raids, like those of Vera Cruz in 1683 or of Campêche in 1686, became increasingly numerous, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, elder son of Jean Baptist Colbert and at the time Minister of the Navy, brought back some order by taking a great number of measures, including the creation of plantations of indigo and of cane sugar.

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.

His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 ( Olimpia vendicata ) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.

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.

In May 1686, James decided to obtain from the English courts of the common law a ruling which affirmed his power to dispense with Acts of Parliament.

He waged war against the Mughal authority of Bengal which led to the Anglo-Mughal war for Bengal ( 1686 – 1690 ).

Cognisant that other Caribbean territories which had been captured from the Dutch during the war had already been restored, in August 1686 the Dutch ambassador was advised by the British that Tortola would be restored, and instructions to that effect were sent to Sir Nathaniel Johnson, the new Governor of the Leeward Islands.

The settlement of Arkansas Post, which began in 1686, came more than a century earlier, though that community dissolved in the years following the American Civil War.

The town was officially incorporated on June 4, 1686 as Rochester, and was renamed for Rochester, England, from which early settlers to the town came.

In 1686, the Provincial Council ordered the construction of the King's Highway, which ran from Philadelphia to Trenton along an existing Indian trail, through Bristol, Falls, and Morrisville.

The elephant and castle mark was only used on some coins in 1686, which are particularly scarce.

Ever " an eager defender and maintainer of the university and its privileges ," he was hostile to the Royal Society, which he regarded as a possible rival, and in 1686 he gave an absolute refusal to Obadiah Walker, afterwards the Roman Catholic master of University College, though licensed by James II, to print books, declaring he would as soon " part with his bed from under him " as his press.

The organization, which was founded in 1686 as the League of Augsburg, was known as the " Grand Alliance " after England joined the League ( in 1689 ).

Governor Thomas Dongan issued a Patent in 1686 which granted powers to the town and established a representative form of government.

So, in 1686, he left his home on Wickasee Island, which is now known as Tyngs Island, in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, where Vesper Country Club now sits, and took his people to Canada.

Hans Poulsen Egede ( January 31, 1686 – November 5, 1758 ) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland.

Hody's Oxford dissertation of 1685 provoked an " angry and scurrilous reply " from Isaac Vossius ( 1618 – 1689 ), who had been librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden, in the appendix to his Observations on Pomponius Mela, 1686, to which Hody conclusively replied in notes to his reprint of 1705.

The new Company acquired a new Charter in 1686, under which it still operates.

It continued in the crown from the time of Richard III's marriage with Anne Neville, until Queen Mary granted it to William Lord Paget, in whose family it continued more than a century ; after which, it passed, by purchase, to Sir Humphrey Winch, in 1670 ; to Lord Falkland in 1686 ; to Sir James Etheridge in 1690 ; to Sir John Guise in 1718 ; and to Sir William Clayton in 1736.

Stephanus van Cortlandt ( May 7, 1643 – November 25, 1700 ) was the first native-born mayor of New York City, a position which he held from 1677 to 1678 and from 1686 to 1688.

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.

In 1686 Charles II's successor, King James II, formed the Dominion of New England, which ultimately joined all of the British territories from Delaware Bay to Penobscot Bay into a single political unit.

In Edo ( today's Tokyo ) there also lived Shikano Buzaemon ( 1649 – 99 ) who wrote the Shikano Buzaemon kudenbanashi ( Oral Instruction Discourses of Shikano Buzaemon ) and the Shika no makifude ( The Deer's Brush, 1686 ), a work containing 39 stories, eleven of which are about the kabuki milieu.

The seal of the City of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend, which means simply " The Seal of the City of New York.

France, which had recently emerged as a leading naval power, achieved comparable success soon afterwards, with bombardments of Algiers in 1682, 1683 and 1688 securing a lasting peace, while Tripoli was similarly coerced in 1686.