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September 26 : The 2,000-year-oldParthenon inAthens is ruined by shelling from the Navy of theRepublic of Venice .[ 1] 1687 (MDCLXXXVII ) was acommon year starting on Wednesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Saturday of theJulian calendar , the 1687th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 87th year of the17th century , and the 8th year of the1680s decade. As of the start of 1687, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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August 12 :Battle of Mohács .January 3 – With the end of latest of theSavoyard–Waldensian wars in theDuchy of Savoy between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as theWaldensians ,Victor Amadeus III , Duke of Savoy, carries out the release of 3,847 surviving prisoners and their families, who had forcibly been converted to Catholicism, and permits the group to emigrate to Switzerland.January 8 –Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell , is appointed as the lastLord Deputy of Ireland by the English crown, and begins efforts to include more Roman Catholic Irishmen in the administration. Upon the removal of King James II in England and Scotland, the Earl of Tyrconnell loses his job and is replaced by James, who reigns briefly as King of Ireland until William III establishes his rule over the isle.January 27 – In one of the most sensational cases in England in the 17th century, midwifeMary Hobry murders her abusive husband, Denis Hobry, after he beats her up for the last time. Mary then dismembers his body and scatters the remains in a dunghill and in severalouthouses (or privies) in the area. Despite a defense of justifiable homicide, Mary is convicted of murder and burned at the stake.February 7 – TheArjeplog blasphemy trial begins for Erik Eskilsson and Amund Thorsson, two practitioners of theSami religion who had resistedSweden's efforts at their conversion to Christianity . Eskilsson and Thorsson are acquitted of the charges after agreeing to convert to Christianity.February 11 – In India, troops under the command ofJob Charnock of theEast India Company , preparing to go to war against the Nawab of Bengal,Shaista Khan of the Mughal empire, destroy his fortresses located atThana .[ 2] February 12 – TheDeclaration of Indulgence is issued inScotland byKing James VII as one of the first steps in establishing freedom of religion in the British Isles, eliminating enforcement ofcriminal penalties against persons who failed to conform with Anglicanism. As King James II of England, he issues a similar declaration on April 4.March 19 – The men under explorerRobert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle mutiny, while searching for the mouth of theMississippi River . Pierre Duhaut murders La Salle, near what is nowNavasota, Texas .July 2 – KingJames II of England disbands the English parliamentJuly 11 –Isaac Newton 'sPhilosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Principia , is published by theRoyal Society of London. In it, Newton describes his law ofuniversal gravitation , explains the laws ofmechanics , and gives a formula for thespeed of sound . The writing ofPrincipia Mathematica ushers in a tidal wave of changes in thought, significantly accelerating theScientific Revolution by providing new and practical intellectual tools, and becomes the foundation of modernphysics .July 24 –Morean War :Battle of Patras – TheRepublic of Venice defeats theOttomans , which flee in panic, allowing the Venetians to capture the fortresses ofPatras ,Rio ,Antirrio , andLepanto unopposed.August 12 –Great Turkish War :Battle of Mohács – The Habsburg imperial army, and allies underCharles V, Duke of Lorraine , defeat theOttoman Turks , and enable Austria to conquer most of Ottoman-occupied Hungary.September 21 –Morean War : The navy of theRepublic of Venice raids theDalmatian coast, and attacks Ottoman Turkish strongholds in Greece.September 22 – TheSiege of Golconda , ordered by EmperorAurangzeb ofIndia 'sMughal Empire against the capital of theGolconda sultanate , ends after nine months when a traitor inside the walled city, Sarandaz Khan, opens the first of several entrances into the fortress. The SultanAbul Hasan Qutb Shah is taken prisoner by GeneralMir Shahab ud-Din , and Golconda (now part ofHyderabad in theTelangana state).September 26 – Half of theParthenon is destroyed inAthens after mortar shells are fired byRepublic of Venice forces under the command ofFrancesco Morosini in a battle against theOttoman Empire for control of the city. The strike ignites a stock of gunpowder that the Ottomans had stored inside the 2,200-year-old temple, which had been completed in438 BC as a shrine to the goddessAthena . During the fighting September 23 and September 29 forcontrol of the Acropolis in theMorean War , theTemple of Athena Nike is demolished and thePropylaea suffers damage.October 20 – An estimated8.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 50 kilometres (31 mi) off of the coast ofPeru and kills at least 5,000 people, primarily from atsunami that washes away the city ofPisco and causes severe damage to the Spanish colonial cities of Lima, Callao and Ica.[ 7] October 31 – The legend of theCharter Oak begins as a successful attempt to hide the 1662 Royal Charter of the British colony (and now a U.S. state) ofConnecticut afterEdmund Andros , the Governor of theDominion of New England , makes a mission of attempting to confiscate the founding documents for the seven colonies that make up the new administrative area. After Governor Andros arrives in Hartford and comes to the tavern of Zachariah Sanford to demand the Connecticut Colony charter, Captain Joseph Wadsworth spirits the parchment away from the and hides the Charter in a hollowed out portion of a white oak tree on Wyllys Hyll until Andros is recalled to London.[ 8] November 5 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from Arabia across the Indian Ocean and across the south of AustraliaNovember 8 –Suleiman II succeeds the deposedMehmed IV , asOttoman Emperor .December 31 – In response to the revocation of theEdict of Nantes in1685 , a group ofHuguenots set sail from France, and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at theCape of Good Hope , where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards.
Isham Randolph of Dungeness born24 February Elizabeth Churchill, Countess of Bridgewater born15 March Bhumman Shah born14 April Jean Henri Desmercières born8 May Maria Maddalena Martinengo born5 October Robert Simson born14 October Daniello Concina born20 October William Stukeley born7 November January 4 –Henry Beekman , politician and landowner from the Thirteen Colonies (d.1775 )January 6 –Cornil Cacheux , French pipe organ maker (d.1738 )January 8 –Bernardo de Rossi , Italian Dominican theologian and historian (d.1775 )January 19 –Sebastián de la Cuadra, 1st Marquess of Villarías , Spanish statesman (d.1759 )January 24 –Sir Banks Jenkinson, 4th Baronet , British lawyer and politician (d.1738 )January 27 –Johann Balthasar Neumann , German architect (d.1753 )January 31 –Cornelis Schrijver , Dutch States Navy officer and diplomat (d.1768 )February 4 –Joseph Effner , German architect (d.1745 )February 6 –Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet , landowner and Whig politician (d.1727 )February 15 –Philippe Charles de La Fare , a Marshal of France (d.1752 )February 21 –Prince William of Denmark , son of Christian V of Denmark and Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d.1705 )February 23 –Gustaf Otto Douglas , Swedish mercenary of Scottish descent (d.1771 )February 24 –Isham Randolph of Dungeness , American planter (d.1742 )March 3 –Peter Stephens , founded present-day Stephens City, Virginia, U.S. (d.1757 )March 7 –Jean Lebeuf , French historian (d.1760 )March 13 March 15 March 16 March 24 –James Parker , American innkeeper and figure of the American Indian Wars (d.1732 )April 5 –William Walmesley , Dean of Lichfield (d.1730 )April 13 –Sigismund Streit , Kingdom of Prussia merchant and art patron in Venice (d.1775 )April 14 April 19 –Charles-Philippe de Patin , prominent figure in the Austrian Netherlands (d.1773 )April 30 –Pedro Cebrián, 5th Count of Fuenclara (d.1752 )May 2 –James Compton, 5th Earl of Northampton (d.1754 )May 3 –Peter Bathurst , Salisbury MP (d.1748 )May 8 –Jean Henri Desmercières , French-Danish merchant (d.1778 )May 12 –Johann Heinrich Schulze , German professor and polymath (d.1744 )May 15 –Thomas Prince , New England clergyman (d.1758 )May 25 –Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet , Anglo-Irish politician (d.1739 )June 6 –Giambattista Pittoni , Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period (d.1767 )June 7 –Gaetano Berenstadt , Italian alto castrato who is associated with George Frideric Handel (d.1734 )June 13 –Paolo Rolli , Italian Rococo librettist, poet and translator (d.1765 )June 18 –Frederick William II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (d.1749 )June 24 –Johann Albrecht Bengel , German scholar (d.1752 )June 25 –Elias David Häusser , German-Danish architect working in the Baroque and Rococo styles (d.1745 )July 4 –John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald , Scottish aristocrat and politician (d.1720 )July 20 –Sir Justinian Isham, 5th Baronet (d.1772 )July 21 –Lars Benzon , landowner, Deputy Director in the General Affairs Commission of the Danish Royal Navy (d.1742 )July 24 –Henry Parsons , English politician (d.1739 )August 1 –Robert Furnese , 2nd Baronet and English Whig politician (d.1733 )August 23 –Mattheus Pinna da Encarnaçao , Brazilian Benedictine writer and theologian (d.1764 )August 27 –Lucius Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland , Scottish peer and Jacobite (d.1730 )September 4 –Isaak Faesch , Swiss merchant (d.1758 )September 7 September 9 –Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault , French actor and musician (d.1745 )September 17 –Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian who specialized in history of Trevi (d.1772 )September 23 –Fettiplace Bellers , English dramatist and philosophical writer (d.1742 )September 28 –Adam Christopher Knuth , first Count of Knuthenborg (d.1736 )October 4 –Robert Simson , Scottish mathematician (d.1768 )October 5 –Maria Maddalena Martinengo , Italian nun (d.1737 )October 13 –Giorgio Massari , Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice (d.1766 )October 14 –Robert Simson , Scottish mathematician and Professor of Mathematics (d.1768 )October 16 –Henry Frederick of Württemberg-Winnental , German general (d.1734 )October 18 –Charles III Le Moyne , second baron de Longueuil (d.1755 )October 20 –Daniello Concina , Italian Dominican preacher, controversialist and theologian (d.1756 )October 21 –Nicolaus I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (d.1759 )October 22 –Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (d.1763 )October 24 –Queen Inwon , wife and fourth queen consort of Yi Sun, King Sukjong, the 19th Joseon monarch (d.1757 )November 4 –Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk , English peer from the Howard family (d.1757 )November 7 –William Stukeley , English archaeologist (d.1765 )November 23 November 24 –Giovanni Battista Scaramelli , Italian Jesuit (d.1752 )November 26 –Richard Russell , doctor (d.1759 )November 30 –Juan José Navarro, 1st Marquess of Victoria (d.1772 )December 5 –Francesco Geminiani , Italian violinist and composer (d.1762 )December 8 –Thomas Emmanuel, Prince of Savoy-Carignan (d.1729 )December 9 –Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga , reigning Duke of Guastalla, member of the House of Gonzaga (d.1729 )December 21 –Sir Andrew Agnew, 5th Baronet (d.1771 )December 24 –Richard Hancorne , Welsh clergyman (d.1732 )December 26 –Johann Georg Pisendel , German musician (d.1755 )December 28 –John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley , Irish peer born of an English family (d.1728 )December 29 –Jean-Baptiste Massé , French miniature painter (d.1767 )December 30 –Joseph Whipple Jr. , wealthy merchant in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.1750 )date unknown Johannes Hevelius died28 January Matthäus Merian the Younger died15 February Jean Hamon (doctor) died22 February Stefan Wierzbowski died7 March Jean-Baptiste Lully died22 March Constantijn Huygens died28 March Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester died12 April Johannes Caioni died25 April Gilberte Périer died25 April Laura Martinozzi died19 July Dirk Dalens died24 August Maria Euphrosyne of Zweibrücken died24 October Nell Gwyn died14 November Ercole Bernabei died5 December William Petty died16 December January 2 –Palliveettil Chandy , bishop (b.1615 )January 3 –Christoph Hartknoch , German historian (b.1644 )January 5 –Tada Kasuke , farmer executed for appeal against taxes (b.1639 )January 7 –Hyacinthe Serroni , Italian archbishop (b.1617 )January 9 –Sir John Norton, 3rd Baronet , English politician (b.1620 )January 11 –Richard Atherton , English Member of Parliament (b.1656 )January 13 January 14 –Lorenzo Raggi , Italian cardinal (b.1615 )January 15 –Jacob Esselens , Dutch Golden Age painter (b.1626 )January 18 –François Collignon , French printmaker (b.1610 )January 26 January 28 –Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer (b.1611 )January 30 January 31 –Francisco Varo , Spanish Dominican friar and linguist (b.1627 )March 4 March 7 –Stefan Wierzbowski , Polish bishop (b.1620 )March 11 –Angelo Michele Colonna , Italian painter (b.1604 )March 17 –Nestor Rita , Roman Catholic prelate (1605-87) (b.1605 )March 18 –Dorothea Elisabeth Christiansdatter , Danish noble (b.1629 )March 19 March 20 March 22 March 24 –Henry Clerke , English academic and physician, President of Magdalen College, Oxford (b.1621 )March 27 –Edward Sheldon , English translator (b.1599 )March 28 –Constantijn Huygens , Dutch writer, poet and composer (b.1596 )October 5 –Mikhail Andreyevich Golitsyn , Russian prince and governor (b.1639 )October 6 –Henry Savile , English politician, died 1687 (b.1642 )October 9 –Georg Balthasar Metzger , German physician and scientist (b.1623 )October 12 –Thomas Foote , Lord Mayor of London, 1649 (b.1598 )October 13 –Geminiano Montanari , Italian astronomer (b.1633 )October 14 –Sarı Süleyman Pasha , Ottoman politician and Grand Vizier (b.1627 )October 16 –Johann Paul Auer , German artist (b.1636 )October 17 –Frederick Coyett , Swedish noble and Dutch colonial administrator (b.1615 )October 18 –Pietro Liberi , Italian painter (b.1605 )October 19 –Giulio Bartolocci , Italian Biblical scholar (b.1613 )October 21 –Edmund Waller , English poet and politician (b.1606 )October 24 –Maria Euphrosyne of Zweibrücken , Swedish princess (b.1625 )October 27 –René Rapin , French writer (b.1620 )November 3 –Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth , English noble (b.1626 )November 4 November 5 –Ioannis Kigalas , Cypriot academic (b.1622 )November 6 –Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse , French aristocrat (b.1612 )November 7 –Isaac Orobio de Castro , Jewish physician (b.1617 )November 14 –Nell Gwyn , English actress, a mistress ofCharles II of England (b.1650 )November 15 –James Aitken , Bishop of Galloway (b.1612 )November 16 –Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquess of Carpio , Spanish noble (b.1629 )November 18 –Anton Janson , Dutch typefounder and printer (b.1620 )November 20 –Olivier Charbonneau , Canadian frontiersman (b.1613 )November 26 December 3 –Louis Licherie , French painter (b.1642 )December 5 –Ercole Bernabei , Italian composer and organist (b.1622 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