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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn achieves peace for Pennsylvania by negotiating a treaty with the local Lenape (or Delaware) tribes | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The emperor, Leopold I, and his court abandon Vienna on the approach of a Turkish army | |
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| 1683 |
| | | Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The Qing emperor orders all Chinese men to shave their heads, leaving only a long pigtail | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The Turks are driven from the walls of Vienna by the Polish king John Sobieski, in what proves a historic turning point | |
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| 1684 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress | |
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| 1685 |
| | | James II succeeds to the throne in Britain and immediately introduces pro-Catholic policies | |
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| c. 1685 |
| | | Denis Papin, a French scientist working in England, demonstrates a pressure cooker fitted with a safety valve | |
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| 1685 |
| | | 400,000 Huguenots leave France after Louis XIV deprives them of their rights by revoking the Edict of Nantes | |
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| 1686 |
| | | English naturalist John Ray begins publication of his Historia Plantarum, classifying some 18,600 plants in 'mutual fertility' species | |
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