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Everything about 1687 totally explainedYear 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
July - December
July 5 - Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.
August 12 - Battle of Mohács (1687), fight between Sultan Mehmed IV's Ottoman Turks and 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
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)
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 Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)
December 16 - Sir William Petty, English philosopher (born 1623)
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