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    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...
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  • The year 1685 in science and technology involved some significant events. Adam Adamandy Kochański publishes an approximation for squaring the circle. Charles...
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    Charles II of England (category 1685 deaths)
    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...
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    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...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach (category 1685 births)
    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...
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  • Portrait of Edmund Waller, by John Riley, circa 1685...
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    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...
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    Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman and military officer. Originally called...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Despite his own Catholicism, for various reasons James became king in February 1685 with widespread backing from the Protestant majorities in England and Scotland...
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  • 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...
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    cum solutione problematis de sorte alearum, propositi in Ephem. Gall. A. 1685" (Some questions about interest, with a solution of a problem about games...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • archaeology involved some significant events. 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma. 1685: Jacob Spon - Miscellanea eruditae antiquitatis...
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    total religious uniformity on the country, repealing the Edict of Nantes in 1685. It is estimated that anywhere between 150,000 and 300,000 Protestants fled...
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    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...
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  • after until his return from a French South Sea buccaneering expedition in 1685. May – Thomas Lynch returns as Governor of Jamaica. July – Robert Clarke...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    married the Lutheran Prince George of Denmark in 1683. On Charles's death in 1685, James succeeded to the throne, but just three years later he was deposed...
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    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...
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    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...
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    This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1685. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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    she married her cousin William of Orange, a Protestant. Charles died in 1685 and James became king, making Mary heir presumptive. James's attempts at...
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    Charles II, which lasted from 21 May 1662 until his death on 6 February 1685. She was the daughter of John IV of Portugal, who became the first king from...
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    bar him from the English throne. Nevertheless, he became king in February 1685 with widespread support in England and Scotland; a Catholic monarch was preferable...
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    Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 11 March 2019. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): New Edition of the Complete Works at the Bärenreiter website. Neue...
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    Chambord, a black raspberry liqueur that has been produced in France since 1685. List of cocktails  Liquor portal French Martini iba-world.com O'Neil, D...
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