Editing 1686 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 17]] &ndash; As the [[Savoyard–Waldensian wars]], draw to a close, the Duke of Savoy announces that the [[Waldensians|Protestant Valdisi]] defenders will be granted safe passage to Switzerland, and that children taken during the war will be allowed to return to their families.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lovisa |first1=Barbro |title=Italienische Waldenser und das protestantische Deutschland 1655 bis 1989 |date=1994 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-525-56539-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgXx4AjICGAC&pg=PA30 |access-date=May 18, 2023 |language=de}}</ref> By January, a little more than 2,500 Valdisi take the offer.
* [[October 22]] &ndash; In the [[Great Turkish War]], the [[Siege of Pécs]] ends when the Ottoman-held city, located across the [[Danube|Danube River]] from the recent liberated [[Buda]], surrenders<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kolta |first1=János |title=Baranya |date=1958 |publisher=Baranya Megyei Idegenforgalmi Hivatal |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QQ9AAAAIAAJ&q=%221686.%20okt%C3%B3ber%2022.%22,%20P%C3%A9cs |access-date=May 18, 2023 |language=hu}}</ref> to Austrian troops of the [[Holy League (1684)|Holy League]], continuing the Austrian assumption of control of Hungary.<ref>{{cite web |title=After the victory against Turkish |url=http://www.memo.fr/en/article.aspx?ID=REG_HON_PEC_MOD_002 |access-date=May 18, 2023 |date=September 28, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928021337/http://www.memo.fr/en/article.aspx?ID=REG_HON_PEC_MOD_002 | archive-date=September 28, 2011 }}</ref> Buda and Pécs are later combined to form the Hungarian city (and now capital) of [[Budapest]].
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Szeged]], now the second largest city in [[Hungary]], is liberated from Turkish Ottoman rule.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Török |first1=József |title=Szerzetes- és lovagrendek Magyarországon |date=1990 |publisher=Panoráma |isbn=978-963-243-723-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEGNAAAAMAAJ&q=%221686.+okt%C3%B3ber+23.%22,+Szeged |access-date=May 18, 2023 |language=hu}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Anglurah Agung]], the virtual leader of the island of [[Bali]] as king of the paramount state of [[Gelgel, Indonesia|Gelgel]], is killed in battle fighting Batu Lepang (who also dies in the fighting), ending the unification of the island (now part of Indonesia) and causing Bali to split into several principalities.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Whitehall]], more formerly the Treaty of Neutrality for America, is signed at the [[Palace of Whitehall]] in Westminster between representatives of King Louis XIV of France and King James II of England, with both sides pledging that "though the two Countries might be at war in Europe their Colonies in America should continue in peace and Neutrality".<ref>Max Savelle, ''Origins of American Diplomacy: The International History of Angloamerica 1492—1763'' (Macmillan, 1967), p. 108</ref> The treaty is broken less than two years later when [[King William's War]] breaks out in what is now the U.S. state of [[Maine]]. 
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Melchor Portocarrero, 3rd Count of Monclova]] becomes the new [[Viceroy of New Spain]] (encompassing what is now [[Mexico]] and much of the southwestern United States) as he arrives in Mexico City to take over at the end of the term of [[Tomás de la Cerda, 3rd Marquess of la Laguna]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Müller |first1=Johann Wilhelm Baron |title=Reisen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Canada und Mexico |date=1865 |publisher=F.A. Brockhaus |page=195 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dtc0AAAAIAAJ&q=Tom%C3%A1s%20de%20la%20Cerda |access-date=May 22, 2023 |language=de}}</ref>  
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Edmund Andros]] arrives in [[Boston]] to become the British Governor of the newly created [[Dominion of New England]], which includes most of the what are now the U.S. states of [[Connecticut]], [[Maine]], [[Massachusetts]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Vermont]] and much of the eastern portion of [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts |date=1907 |publisher=Massachusetts Colonial Society |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4_w-Y8vO3UC&dq=Edmund+Andros+%2220+december+1686%22&pg=RA2-PA158 |access-date=May 22, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The unpopular Andros, who reigns as a dictator after being appointed by King James II, is driven out of office in 1689 after the overthrow of James, and the Dominion of New England is broken up into its constituent colonies.
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg]] and [[Duchy of Prussia|Duke of Prussia]], head of the [[House of Hohenzollern]], enters into an alliance with the [[Holy Roman Empire]].