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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...