1687

	1687 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s – 1680s – 1690s 1700s 1710s
Years:	1684 1685 1686 – 1687 – 1688 1689 1690

[edit] Events of 1687

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

5 July – Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (i.e., the Principia) published.
12 August – Battle of Mohács (1687): imperial army under Charles V, Duke of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Turks and enables Austria to conquer most of Ottoman-occupied Hungary.
September – The Venetian navy raids the Dalmatian coast and attacks Turkish strongholds in Greece. On 28 September, the Parthenon in Athens is badly damaged when Venetian mortar fire explodes a Turkish powder magazine housed in the building.
8 November – Suleiman II (1687–1691) succeeds the deposed Mehmed IV as Ottoman Emperor.
31 December – In response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a group of Huguenots set sail from France and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards.

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)

See also Category: 1687 births.

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 who established opera in France (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)

See also Category: 1687 deaths.