1685 (MDCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1685th...

The year 1685 in science and technology involved some significant events. Adam Adamandy Kochański publishes an approximation for squaring the circle. Charles...

Hannoverians joined Morosini in June 1685, while 3,300 Saxons arrived a few months later. In spring and early June 1685, the Venetian forces gathered at Corfu...

The Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation...

Portrait of Edmund Waller, by John Riley, circa 1685...

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration...

to describe the reign of Charles II (1660–1685), and sometimes that of his younger brother James II (1685–1688). After Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector...

(Koroni) in the southwestern Morea (Peloponnese) by the Republic of Venice in 1685. It signalled the start of the Venetian conquest of the Morea during the...

James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic...

1685 Toro (prov. designation: 1948 OA) is an asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group on an eccentric orbit. It was discovered on 17 July 1948...

Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was an English nobleman and military officer. Originally called James Crofts...

The French–Tripolitania War (1681-1685) was part of a wider campaign by France against the Barbary Pirates in the 1680s. In June 1681, corsairs from the...

Maria Józefa Wessel but had no issue Jan (4 June 1683 – 1 January/12 April 1685) daughter (20 December 1684), stillborn or died shortly after birth Official...

Charles Tottenham (24 August 1694 – 20 September 1758) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was the son of Edward Tottenham, of Tottenham Green, by his...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1685. January 22 – Antoine Furetière is expelled from the Académie française for...

after until his return from a French South Sea buccaneering expedition in 1685. May – Thomas Lynch returns as Governor of Jamaica. July – Robert Clarke...

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his...

Versailles 1685 (French: Versailles 1685: Complot à la cour du Roi Soleil, also known as Versailles: A Game of Intrigue), is a video game released in...

invasion of England. Despite his own Catholicism, James became king in February 1685 with widespread backing from the Protestant majorities in England and Scotland...

James Hamilton (1685—November 1771) was an Irish landowner and politician. He was the eldest son of Henry Hamilton of Bailieborough, who was killed at...

Roger North, is completed. The original Kaohsiung Confucius Temple is built. 1685 Ishak Pasha Palace in eastern Anatolia is begun. 1686 The Het Loo Palace...

Events in the year 1685 in Japan. Monarch: Reigen March 22 - Emperor Go-Sai (b. 1638) Titsingh, Isaac (1834). Annales Des Empereurs Du Japon (in French)...

was a military conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and Qing China from 1685 to 1686. It ultimately ended in the surrender of Albazin to Qing China and...

The siege of Érsekújvár was fought between July 7 and August 17 of 1685, between the besieging Habsburg army and the Ottoman garrison of Érsekújvár, city...

archaeology involved some significant events. 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma. 1685: Jacob Spon - Miscellanea eruditae antiquitatis...

West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland...

then finally revoked all Protestant rights in his Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685. The Huguenots were concentrated in the southern and western parts of the...

September 1684. On the Duke of York's succession as King James II in February 1685, Rochester returned as Lord High Treasurer. He was troubled by the King's...

the Polish king more vigorous action against the Ottoman front. In June 1685, Poland received money from the Papacy to launch another campaign. In July...

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750, was published by Novello & Co in three volumes. Spitta's Bach biography...