Editing 1686 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]] &ndash; In [[Madras]] (now [[Chennai]]) in India, local residents employed by the [[East India Company]] threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator [[William Gyfford]] imposes a house tax on residences within the city walls.  Gyfford places security forces at all entrances to the city and threatens to banish anyone who fails to pay their taxes, as well as to confiscate the goods of merchants who refuse to make sales.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tchitcherov |first1=Alexander I |title=India: changing economic structure in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : outline history of crafts and trade |date=1998 |publisher=Manohar Publishers and Distributors |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-7304-062-7 |page=98 |url=https://archive.org/details/indiachangingeco0000tchi/page/98/mode/2up?q=black+town |access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref> A compromise is reached the next day on the amount of the taxes.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Records of Fort St. George. Diary and consultation book (1686-1689) |journal=Records of Fort St. George |date=1913 |publisher=Superintendent Government Press |location=Madras |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433000051163&view=1up&seq=25&q1=3%20january |access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[King Louis XIV]] of [[Kingdom of France|France]] reports the success of the [[Edict of Fontainebleau]], issued on October 22 against the Protestant [[Huguenots]], and reports that after less than three months, the vast majority of the Huguenot population had left the country.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scoville |first1=Warren Candler |title=The persecution of Huguenots and French economic development, 1680-1720 |date=1960 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkley |page=58 |url=https://archive.org/details/persecutionofhug0000scov/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22january+17%22 |access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] &ndash; In [[Guatemala]], Spanish Army Captain Melchor Rodríguez Mazariegos leads a campaign to conquer the [[Lacandon people|indigenous Maya people]] in the rain forests of [[Lacandon Jungle|Lacandona]], departing from [[Huehuetenango]] to rendezvous with the colonial governor at [[San Mateo Ixtatán]]. 
* [[January 31]] &ndash; In the wake of the success of France's campaign against Protestantism, [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia|Victor Amadeus II]], the Duke of Savoy, issues an edict against the [[Waldensians|Valdesi]], the Duchy's Protestant minority, setting a 15-day deadline for members of the Valdesi to publicly renounce their beliefs as erroneous, or face banishment or death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wylie |first1=James Aitken |title=History of the Waldenses |date=2001 |publisher=TEACH Services |location=Brushton, N.Y. |isbn=978-1-57258-185-2 |pages=163–165 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwaldens0000wyli/page/164/mode/2up?q=%22thirty-first%22 |access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref> The February 15 deadline is ignored.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; After the Valdesi in the [[Duchy of Savoy]] decline to obey the edict to convert to Catholicism, Duke Victor Amadeus dispatches a force of 9,000 French and Piedmontese soldiers to enforce the edict.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; Sweden's Council of State endorses the reforms proposed by King Charles XI for the [[Swedish Church Law 1686]], after having debated it in three sessions on February 18, 19 and 20.<ref>A. F. Upton, ''Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998) p. 110</ref> The law confirms and describes the rights of the Lutheran Church and confirms Sweden as a Lutheran state; all non-Lutherans are banned from immigration unless they convert to Lutheranism; the [[Romani people]] are to be incorporated to the Lutheran Church; the poor care law is regulated; and all parishes are forced by law to teach the children within them to read and write, in order to learn the scripture, which closely eradicates illiteracy in Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|last=Du Rietz|first=Anita|title=Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år|publisher=Dialogos|location=Stockholm|year=2013}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Milan]], the controversial Governor of the Danish West Indies since 1684, is removed from office by order of [[Frederick III of Denmark|King Frederick III]] and placed under arrest for treason.  Three years later, after being found guilty in a trial after being brought back to [[Copenhagen]], Milan is beheaded on March 26, 1689.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krarup |first1=Janus |title=Gabriel Milan og Somme af hans Samtid. II. (Sluttet) |journal=Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift |date=January 1, 1894 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=47 |url=https://tidsskrift.dk/personalhistorisk_tidsskrift/article/view/78380/113504 |language=da |issn=2445-4958}}</ref>  
* [[March 3]] &ndash; A group of 107 French Canadian soldiers, under the command of [[Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes|Pierre de Troyes]], begins the [[Hudson Bay expedition (1686)|Hudson Bay expedition]], departing from [[Montreal]] on an {{convert|800|mi|adj=on}} journey to take control of the properties of British North American settlers of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]].<ref>Elle Andra-Warner, ''Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders'' (Heritage House, 2011)</ref> The group marches for 82 days and arrives at the first Hudson's Bay fort, at [[Moose Factory, Ontario|Moose Factory]] on June 19.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kenyon |first1=Walter Andrew |title=The History of James Bay, 1610-1686: A Study in Historical Archaeology |date=1986 |publisher=Royal Ontario Museum |isbn=978-0-88854-316-5 |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tgRAQAAIAAJ&q=19%20june |access-date=May 7, 2023 |language=en}}</ref>