1687
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 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.
- 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
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed IV (1648-1687) to Suleiman II (1687-1691).
Births
- January 27 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (died 1753)
- March 7 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (died. 1760)
- June 24 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (died 1757)
- September 7 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (died 1772)
- October 4 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (died 1768)
- October 21 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1759)
- November 7 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (died 1765)
- December 5 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)
- December 26 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (died 1755)
- Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (died 1720)
- See also :Category: 1687 births.
Deaths
- January 13 - Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (born 1619)
- January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (born 1611)
- March 19 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (born 1643)
- March 22 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (born 1632)
- March 28 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (born 1596)
- April 12 - Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer (born c.1628)
- April 16 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (born 1628)
- September 1 - Henry More, English philosopher (born 1614)
- September 12 - John Alden, Mayflower pilgrim (born c.1599)
- September 28 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (born 1623)
- October 13 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (born 1633)
- October 21 - Edmund Waller, English poet (born 1606)
- November 14 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)
- December 16 - Sir William Petty, English philosopher (born 1623)
- See also :Category: 1687 deaths.
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