[caption id=“attachment_4224” align=“alignleft” width=“357”] Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, New York[/caption]

Catholic James Stuart becomes King James II of England and Ireland, and King James VII of Scotland (Feb 6), but his nephew James Scott wants the throne and starts the Monmouth Rebellion (Jun 11), James Scott is executed for treason (Jul 15), the first organised street lighting is introduced in London with oil lamps to be lit on moonless winter nights outside every tenth house (Sep), the Morean War between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire goes on, construction begins of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow - and all these fine people were born:

1685-xxxx Matthias Lythberg* Swedish merchant/civil servant - Visby, Gotland (1745/c. 60) 1685-0107 Jonas Alströmer* (b Toresson) pioneer of agriculture and industry in Sweden - Alingsås, Sweden (1761/76) 1685-0223 Georg Friedrich Händel* composer – Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Roman Empire (1759/74) 1685-0317 Jean-Marc Nattier* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1766/81) 1685-0327 Simon Hatley* sailor - Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (after 1723) 1685-0331 Johann Sebastian Bach* composer – Eisenach, Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, Roman Empire (1750/65) 1685-0404 Claude Sallier* librarian/ecclesiastic/ philologist - Saulieu, Kingdom of France (1761/76) 1685-0623 Antonio Bernacchi* opera singer/ composer/teacher - Bologna, Papal States (1756/70) 1685-0916 Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt* physician/naturalist/ geographer – Danzig (1735/49) 1685-1026 Domenico Scarlatti* composer – Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Crown (1757/71) 1685-1208 Giovanni Maria Farina* perfumier/creator of Eau de Cologne 4711/to Germany at age 23 - Santa Maria Maggiore, Italy (1766/80) Updated 19.7.2022-2 Search for another year here