1687

All you want to know about 1687

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s
Years:	1684 1685 1686 - 1687 - 1688 1689 1690

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

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 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.

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.

See also Category: 1687 deaths.

No comments have been added.

Your name:
City:
Country:
Your comments:

Security check * (Please enter the number into adjoining box)

up to content »