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Heads of State · Obituary · Year of Music
Calendar overview 1687
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 becomes king of Hungary . |
 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published. |
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| 1687 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1135/36 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1679/80 (change of the year September 11th/12th) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1092/93 (beginning of the year April 14 or 15) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2230/31 (Southern Buddhism); 2229/30 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 73rd (74th) cycle
Year of the Fire Rabbit 丁卯 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger 丙寅) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1049/50 (New Year's April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4020/21 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 1065/66 |
| Islamic calendar | 1098/99 (change of the year November 6th/7th) |
| Jewish calendar | 5447/48 (September 7th/8th) |
| Coptic calendar | 1403/04 (11/12 September) |
| Malayalam calendar | 862/863 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1997/98 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 1998/99 (October turn) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1743/44 (April turn of the year) |
events
politics and world affairs
Great Turkish War
- May: The first of the two Crimean campaigns of the Russian army under Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn against the Ottoman Empire begins from the Ukraine on the left bank . However , the Crimean Tatars set fire to the steppes, making it impossible for the Russians to advance, who soon had to withdraw again.
- August 12: In the Battle of Mohács , the Austrians under Charles V of Lorraine decisively defeat the Ottomans . Sultan Mehmed IV is subsequently deprived of power by a court intrigue, and his brother Süleyman II ascends the throne. When approached to announce his accession to the throne after spending the last 20 years in captivity in the palace, his first reaction is fear that the delegation has come on his brother's behalf to kill him.
- September 26: The Parthenon is partially destroyed during a siege of the Athenian Acropolis by the Venetian army under Francesco Morosini .
- 9 December: Joseph I of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary at the age of nine while his father Leopold I is still alive .
Other events in Europe
- 5 March to 12 September: In Eperjes (Slovak Prešov in modern-day Slovakia , then part of Hungary as Upper Hungary ), a group of 24 Protestant citizens of the city, the so-called Martyrs of Eperjes , are executed in the course of the Counter-Reformation .
Africa
- 31 December: The first Huguenots to emigrate from France because of the Huguenot persecution there and the Edict of Fontainebleau leave the Netherlands on the ship Voorschotten towards the Cape Colony at the Cape of Good Hope .
India
- September: The fortress of Golkonda is captured by bribery from the Mughal Aurangzeb after an eight-month siege . Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah is captured and the Deccan Sultanate of Golkonda is incorporated into the Mughal Empire .
North America
- March 19: French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , is assassinated by his own people in what is now Texas.
business
- German monetary history before 1871 : In Kurbrandenburg , the Leipzig foot is used as the foot for silver coins . It replaces the Zinna standard .
science and technology
- July 5: Isaac Newton's major work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ) is published, in which he formulates Newton's three laws of classical mechanics , the principle of inertia , the principle of action and the principle of interaction . Edmond Halley initiated and funded the work.
- Andreas Kieser gives up work on the Kieser forest map .
Culture
- 8 January: Jean-Baptiste Lully rams his baton into his foot while conducting an updated version of his Te Deum , composed in 1678 to celebrate the recovery of King Louis XIV from a serious illness . Gangrene develops and because he refuses to have a toe amputated , the French composer dies of his injury on March 22nd.
society
- July 18: Dukes Rudolph August and Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel found the Rudolph-Antoniana Knights' Academy in Wolfenbüttel .
- The Gymnasium Antonianum is founded in Geseke in the Duchy of Westphalia with five teachers and ten students .
disasters
- June 24: On St. John 's Day, the mine at Falun in Sweden collapses , but no one is injured.
- 5 September: A group of 137 French refugees ( Huguenots ) traveled the Aare towards Lyss in two barges tied together . The drunken sailors steer the Weidlings onto a tree trunk between Aarberg and Lyss. The ships capsize and 111 people drown. This is one of the biggest shipping disasters that Switzerland has ever experienced.
Born
date of birth saved
- January 17: Alexander David , ducal Brunswick court and chamber agent and imperial factor († 1765)
- January 22: Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg , German mathematician and astronomer (died 1766)
- probably January 27: Balthasar Neumann , German architect († 1753)
- February 15: Theodor Ankarcrona , Swedish admiral (died 1750)
- March 14: Johann Christian Schöttgen , German pedagogue, historian and lexicographer († 1751)
- March 18: Christof Heinrich von Berger , German jurist († 1737)
- March 18: Johann Tobias Dressel , Saxon organ builder († 1758)
- April 16: Paul Christian Zink , German painter († 1770)
- April 30: Pedro Cebrián y Agustín , Spanish officer, diplomat and colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain (d. 1752)
- May 3: Johann Balthasar Bernhold , German evangelical clergyman and university teacher († 1769)
- May 8: Jean Henri Desmercières , Danish banker (d. 1778)
- May 24: Johann Gottfried Borlach , Electoral Saxon Bergrat († 1768)
- May 31: Friedemann Andreas Zülich , German evangelical clergyman and university teacher († 1748)
- June 9: Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann , Russian diplomat and statesman († 1747)
- June 20: Giovanni Battista Pittoni , Venetian painter and draftsman (died 1767)
- June 22: Jacopo Appiani , Italian plasterer (d. 1742)
- June 24: Johann Albrecht Bengel , German theologian († 1752)
- July 10: Johann Georg Weber , German Lutheran theologian (died 1753)
- August 4: Johann Wilhelm Friso , Prince of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe († 1711)
- August 5: Maria Ernestine Francisca von Rietberg , Countess of Rietberg (died 1758)
- August 8: Johann Henrich von Seelen , German Lutheran theologian and educator († 1762)
- August 26: Willem de Fesch , Dutch violinist and composer (d. 1757)
- August 27: Giuseppe Simone Assemani , Arab orientalist (d. 1768)
- September 9: Johann Christoph Schütze , German master builder, sculptor and painter († 1765)
- September 18: Johann Jakob Züger , Swiss evangelical clergyman and local historian († 1766)
- October 12: Silvius Leopold Weiss , German lutenist and composer († 1750)
- 22 October: Anton Ulrich , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen († 1763)
- November 4: Catharina Christina von Ahlefeldt , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg († 1726)
- November 20: Jean Pierre Antoine d'Alençon , German civil servant (died 1752)
- November 28 Erdmann Rudolf Fischer , German Lutheran theologian (died 1776)
- December 5: Francesco Geminiani , Italian composer and violinist (d. 1762)
- December 9: Johann Adam Delsenbach , German engraver (died 1765)
- December 9: Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga , Duke of Guastalla (died 1729)
- December 26: Johann Georg Pisendel , German violin virtuoso († 1755)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Johann Elias Greifenhahn , German university teacher († 1749)
Died
First half of the year
- January 14: Othmar Appenzeller , Swiss mayor (b. 1610)
- January 28: Johannes Hevelius , Danzig astronomer (b. 1611)
- February 4: François de Créquy , Marquis de Marines, Marshal of France (b. 1629)
- February 11: Thomas Billeb , German jurist, administrative official and official of the counts of Schwarzburg in Großbodungen (* ca. 1617)
- February 13: Charles III. de Blanchefort, duc de Créquy , French general and diplomat (born 1623)
- February 15: Matthäus Merian the Younger , German painter, engraver and publisher (b. 1621)
- February 22: Francesco Lana Terzi , Italian Catholic priest and inventor (b. 1631)
- February 28: Malatyalı Süleyman Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1607)
- March 1: Christoph Junge , German organ builder (b. 1644)
- March 19: Robert Cavelier de La Salle , French explorer (assassinated) (b. 1643)
- March 20: Magdalena Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Electress of Saxony (b. 1612)
- March 22: Jean-Baptiste Lully , French composer of Italian descent (b. 1632)
- March 28: Constantijn Huygens , poet from the Netherlands (b. 1596)
- April 5: Josua Arnd , German theologian, historian and hymn writer (b. 1626)
- 7 April: Ludwig von Brandenburg , Prince and Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1666)
- April 17: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , English diplomat (b. 1628)
- April 25: János Kájoni , Romanian Franciscan, composer, organ builder and printer (b. 1629)
- April 25: Gilberte Périer , sister and biographer of Blaise Pascal (b. 1620)
- 30 April: Ernst Gottlieb von Börstel , Kurbrandenburg war councilor and governor of Magdeburg (b. 1630)
- 18 May: Claude de Vin des Œillets , mistress of Louis XIV (b. 1637)
- May 24 Otto von Grote , German civil servant, member of the "Fruitbearing Society" (b. 1620)
- May 26: Hans Joachim Haltmeyer , Swiss pharmacist and mayor of St. Gallen (b. 1614)
- June 10: Ferdinand Maximilian , Count of Rietberg (b. 1653)
- June 22: Heinrich Herbst the Elder , German organ builder (b. c. 1620)
Second half of the year
- July 19: Laura Martinozzi , by marriage to Alfonso IV d'Este Duchess of Modena (b. 1635)
- August 17: Adam Tribbechov , German Protestant theologian, historian and ethnologist (b. 1641)
- August 26: Johann Christoph Freiherr Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , provost of the prince provost Ellwangen (b. 1640)
- September 10: David Clodius , German orientalist and evangelical theologian (b. 1644)
- September 19: Johannes Colberg , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1623)
- September 19: Magdalena Hedwig Röder , German painter (b. 1656)
- September 28: Francesco della Torre , Royal Prague Court Master Mason (b. 1627)
- September 28: François Turrettini , Swiss Reformed theologian (b. 1623)
- October 14: Sarı Süleyman Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- October 21: Edmund Waller , English poet and politician (b. 1606)
- October 24: Marie Euphrosine of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg , Countess De la Gardie (b. 1625)
- November 11: David Schedlich , German composer (b. 1607)
- November 14 Nell Gwyn , ("Pretty witty Nell"), English actress and mistress of King Charles II of England (b. 1650 or 1651)
- 25 November: Rajasingha II , King of the Sinhala Kingdom of Kandy (b. 1608)
- December 16: William Petty , British physicist and economist (b. 1623)
- December 30: Bernhard Schultze , German legal scholar and cameralist (b. 1622)
Exact date of death unknown
- Isaac Orobio de Castro , Portuguese Marranian physician, philosopher and writer (b. c. 1617)
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