1687 Facts for Kids

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

1687 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1687 MDCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2440
Armenian calendar	1136 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6437
Balinese saka calendar	1608–1609
Bengali calendar	1094
Berber calendar	2637
English Regnal year	2 Ja. 2 – 3 Ja. 2
Buddhist calendar	2231
Burmese calendar	1049
Byzantine calendar	7195–7196
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4383 or 4323 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4384 or 4324
Coptic calendar	1403–1404
Discordian calendar	2853
Ethiopian calendar	1679–1680
Hebrew calendar	5447–5448
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1743–1744
- Shaka Samvat	1608–1609
- Kali Yuga	4787–4788
Holocene calendar	11687
Igbo calendar	687–688
Iranian calendar	1065–1066
Islamic calendar	1098–1099
Japanese calendar	Jōkyō 4 (貞享４年)
Javanese calendar	1610–1611
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4020
Minguo calendar	225 before ROC 民前225年
Nanakshahi calendar	219
Thai solar calendar	2229–2230
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1813 or 1432 or 660 — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1814 or 1433 or 661

Year 1687 was a common year that started on a Wednesday when using the Gregorian calendar.

Events

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 three laws of motion (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) is published.
August 12 – Battle of Mohács, 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.

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed IV (1648-1687) to Suleiman II (1687-1691).

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)
date unknown Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (died 1720)

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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)