1687

Year 1687 (MDCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1687

January - June

* March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
* April 4 - King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists.
* May 6 - Emperor Higashiyama succeeds Emperor Reigen on the throne of Japan.

July - December

* July 5 - Isaac Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" is published.
* August 12 - Battle of Mohács (1687): Sultan Mehmed IV's Ottoman Turks are defeated by Emperor Leopold I's Austrian Habsburgs' forces, commanded by Charles of Lorraine.
* September 28 - The Parthenon explodes, while being used as a gunpowder store.
* December 31 - The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

Undated

* Suleiman II (1687-1691) succeeds Mehmed IV (1648-1687) as Ottoman Emperor.

Births

* January 27 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
* March 7 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
* June 24 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
* September 7 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
* October 4 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
* October 21 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
* November 7 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
* December 5 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
* December 26 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
* "date unknown" Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (d. 1720)

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Deaths

* January 13 - Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1619)
* January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (b. 1611)
* March 19 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
* March 22 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (b. 1632)
* March 28 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
* April 12 - Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer (b. c. 1628)
* April 16 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
* September 1 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
* September 12 - John Alden, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1599)
* September 28 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
* October 13 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
* October 21 - Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
* November 14 - Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
* December 16 - Sir William Petty, English philosopher (b. 1623)

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