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Decades
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Events
The
League of Augsburg
is founded.
Russia
,
Saxony
,
Brandenburg
and
Bavaria
join the
Holy League
against the
Ottoman Turkish
Empire.
September 2
The forces of the
Holy League
of
1684
liberate
Buda
from the
Ottoman Turkish
rule that leads to the end of Turkish rule in
Hungary
during the subsequent years.
New York City
and
Albany, New York
are granted city charters by the colonial governor.
Births
May 24
-
Gabriel Fahrenheit
, physicist, inventor (d.
1736
)
June 9
-
Andrei Osterman
,
Russian
statesman (d.
1747
)
George Clinton (royal governor)
, governor of
New York
Deaths
November 11
-
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
, French general (b.
1621
)
November 20
-
Otto von Guericke
,
German
physicist, inventor (b.
1602
)
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