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 ).

Count Anders Torstenson ( 1641 – 1686 ), Swedish statesman, son of Lennart Torstenson and member of the Privy Council, was from 1674 to 1681 Governor-General of Estonia.

# Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie ( 1622 – 1686 ), Lord High Chancellor of the Privy Council of Sweden.

He became a member of the English Privy Council in 1686, following James II's accession to the throne.

Bradstreet's brother-in-law Joseph Dudley, who had served as one of the colonial agents, was commissioned by James as President of the Council for New England in 1685 by King James II, and took control of the colony in May 1686.

After the death of Charles II, his successor, James II, admitted Arundell, although a Catholic, to the Privy Council ( PC ), to which he was invedted on 17 July / August 1686, and appointed him Keeper of the Privy Seal or Lord Privy Seal in place of Lord Clarendon on 11 March 1686 / 87, office he held.

In October 1686, he became a Clerk of the Privy Council in Ordinary.

He was Lord President of the Privy Council from 1686 to 1689.

He had 2 sons, the eldest one was executed for adultery and the other son, who fled to Ayudhya with his mother, step-mother and 600 followers in February 1686, after his father ordered their execution because he was found to be co-habiting with his half-sister with their full knowledge.

The first regimental guns in English service were ordered by King James II in 1686 ; two 3-pounders for each of the seven regiments ( of one battalion each ) encamped in Hyde Park.

National statistics in Sweden date back to 1686 when the parishes of the Church of Sweden were ordered to start keeping records on the population.

At the next meeting of the Society, on May 19, 1686, some dissatisfaction seems to have been expressed at the delay, as it was ordered " that Mr Newton's work should be printed forthwith in quarto, and that a letter should be written to him to signify the Society's resolutions, and to desire his opinion as to the print, volume, cuts and so forth.

At the next meeting of the council, on June 2, 1686, it was again ordered " that Mr Newton's book be printed ," but, instead of sanctioning the resolution of the general meeting to print it at their charge, they added " that Mr Halley undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.

Although a design by Erik Dahlbergh was approved in 1686, construction was slow due to financial difficulties and by the start of the Great Northern War only two bastions had been completed around Toompea as intended-the Swedish Bastion and the Ingermanland Bastion, both protecting Toompea from the south.

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.

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 ).

Exact burial sites and markers for many first-generation settlers in that ground were lost with the — probably deliberate — placement of Boston's first Anglican church, King's Chapel I ( 1686 ) over them ; the present stone marker, placed by the church, is likely a cenotaph.

King's Chapel was founded by Royal Governor Sir Edmund Andros in 1686 as the first Anglican Church in New England during the reign of King James II.

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.

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 %.

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 Spener accepted an appointment to the court-chaplaincy at Dresden, which opened to him a wider though more difficult sphere of labor.

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.