1686 in England
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1686 in England:

Other years

1684 | 1685 | 1686 | 1687 | 1688

Events from the year 1686 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - James II of England

Events

• 10 July - Court of Ecclesiastical Commission created.¹
• 17 July - King James appoints four Catholics to the Privy Council of England.¹

Undated

• A group of conspirators met at Charborough House in Dorset to plan the overthrow of King James II of England by Parliamentarians and the Dutch Stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau.

Births

• April 9 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (died 1721)²
• April 29 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (died 1742)
• June 5 - Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, English aristocrat (died 1777). Possibly born in 1685.
• August 12 - John Balguy, English philosopher (died 1748)
• August 19 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (died 1737)
• November 30 - Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, English Whig politician (died 1740)

Unknown dates

• George Clinton, English politician (died 1761)
• Thomas Carte, English historian (died 1754)
• Giles Jacob, English legal writer and literary critic (died 1744)
• William Law, English divine (died 1761)
• Christopher Packe, English medical doctor and geologist (died 1749)

Deaths

• January 14 - Sir Thomas Abdy, 1st Baronet, English lawyer and landowner (born 1612)
• January 19 - Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby, English politician (born 1657)
• February 10 - Sir William Dugdale, English antiquary (born 1605)
• April 15 - Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet, English Whig politician and merchant (born 1618)
• June 23 - Sir William Coventry, English statesman (born c. 1628)
• July 10 - John Fell, English churchman (born 1625)
• July 16 - John Pearson, English theologian and scholar (born 1612)
• October 26 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English nobleman (born 1623)

Unknown dates

• John Dolben, English churchman (born 1625)
• John (Jack) Ketch, executioner employed by King Charles II (birth unknown)
• John Playford, English bookseller and publisher (born 1623)
• Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1617)
• Thomas Watson, English, non-conformist, Puritan preacher and author (born c. 1620)

References

See also