1687

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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).

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Events of 1687

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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)
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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)
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