History
1685
General
Population: 610 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include David Abercromby De Pulsis Cariatione, fourth folio of Shakespeare printed, Cesar de Rochefort (dictionary)
Music includes Dryden (opera libretto)
Art includes Kneller "Philip Earl of Leicester"
- Deaths: Charles II of England, Dramatist Thomas Otway, Charles the Palitinate elector
Asia
- General: City of Tsaparang (Shangri-la?) in the land of Guge besieged by neighboring town after it hosts European missionaries
- China: All Chinese ports opened to foreign trade
- India: English expelled from Surat India by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb - allows Calcutta as East India Company base
Europe
- England: Death of Charles II - James II rules England (a convert to Catholicism) with Mary his wife
In protest some English migrate to Netherlands (Whigs? Munga?) led by illigitimate son of Charles II
Under Parliamentary protest James puts Catholics into army
James dismisses Parliament under Tory protest
French Huguenots begin silk manufacture in Great Britain
Rebellion of Earl of Argyll to put Duke of Monmouth on throne - Argyll executed
Duke of Monmouth's rebellion (Charles II's son) – Monmouth defeated at Sedgemore and beheaded – Judge George Jeffreys conducts "bloody assizes" against Monmouth's followers
- France: Under Louis XIV - Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France protecting Huguenots – 50,000 flee
Construction of the Pont Royal in Paris
- German States: Death of Charles the Elector Palitinate – electorate claimed by Louis XIV for sister-in-law Liselotte
Some Huguenots flee to Brandenburg and Berlin
- Russia: Peter the Great rules
East
- Massachusetts: Increase Mather becomes president of Harvard College
- New York: Rights end as New York becomes Royal Colony
Midwest
- General: Fur traders reach Ohio valley and Great Lakes
South
- Carolinas: French arrive
- Texas: French settlers arrive
West and Pacific
- General: Spanish missions established