What is 1687?
{{Year nav|1687}} {{Year in various calendars|1687}} {{Year article header|1687}} == 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 [[Roman Catholic Church|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]]. === Undated === * Change of [[Ottoman Emperor|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]]) * ''date unknown'' Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (died [[1720]]) {{births2|1687}} == Deaths == * [[January 13]] – Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (born [[1619]]) * [[January 28]] – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (bo