1687 Calendar
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1687 Historical Event(s)
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 city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange’s invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
December 31, 1687
– The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
Who Were Born On 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)