1685

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s
Years:	1682 1683 1684 - 1685 - 1686 1687 1688

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Year 1685 (MDCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1685

February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland.
February 18 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
February 20 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near (Texas Handbook).
March – Louis XIV of France passes the "Code Noir", allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies.
June 20 - Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland declares himself King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland, after already forming his own army and campaigning against his uncle.

July 6 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Battle of Sedgemoor between the armies of King James II of England and rebel forces under Monmouth. Monmouth's army is defeated and the Duke himself is captured shortly after the battle.
July 15 - The Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, London.
October 18-19 - Louis XIV declares the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal.

The Chinese army of the Qing Dynasty attacks a Russian post at Albazin, during the reigns of the Kangxi Emperor and the dual Russian rulers Ivan V of Russia and Peter I of Russia. The events lead to the Treaty of Nerchinsk.^[1]
Adam Baldridge founds a pirate base in St Mary Island in the Madagascar.
On a trading expedition to the Mississippi, explorer Michel Mathieu Brunet dit Lestang discovers La Baie des Puants (present-day Green Bay, Wisc.).

See also Category: 1685 births.

January 2 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (born 1603)
February 6 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1630)
February 11 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638)
February 24 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (born 1629)
March 22 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (born 1638)
May 26 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (born 1651)
July 15 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (beheaded) (born 1649)
July 28 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (born 1618)
September 1 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (born 1625)
October 12 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (born 1628)
October 30 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (born 1603)
December 12 - John Pell, English mathematician (born 1610)
date unknown
- Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard (born 1655)

See also Category: 1685 deaths.