1687 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1687?
- March 19, 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- July 5, 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- August 12, 1687 – Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans.
- September 26, 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
- December 31, 1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
Who Were Born In The Year 1687?
- January 27, 1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
- March 7, 1687 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
- March 16, 1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
- June 24, 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
- September 17, 1687 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
- October 14, 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- October 21, 1687 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
- November 7, 1687 – William Stukeley, English antiquarian (d. 1765)
- December 5, 1687 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
- December 26, 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
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