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* 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
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Meanwhile Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) derived the relationship for wave velocity in solids, a cornerstone of physical acoustics ( Principia, 1687 ).
* 1687 – Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.
* 1687 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1762 )
* 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )
* 1650 – Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress ( d. 1687 )
* 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar ( d. 1757 )
* 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer ( d. 1687 )
* 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
* 1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect ( d. 1753 )
John Alden ( 1599 – September 12, 1687 ) is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620.
* 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( d. 1687 )
The English term was first used by Henry More ( 1614 – 1687 ).
* 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( b. 1687 )
There were a number of theologians who defended Calvinistic orthodoxy against Amyraut and Saumur, including Friedrich Spanheim ( 1600 – 1649 ) and Francis Turretin ( 1623 – 1687 ).
* 1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia ( d. 1757 )
* 1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer ( b. 1632 )
* 1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer ( d. 1687 )
* 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer ( d. 1687 )
* 1687 – William Stukeley, English antiquarian ( d. 1765 )
* 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso ( d. 1730 )
This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.
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It was followed by Academia Scientiarum ( 1687 ), and by A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle, Abercromby's patron in the 1680s.
* 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1768 )
* October 1 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician ( b. 1687 )
* Robert Simson ( 1687 – 1768 ), Scottish mathematician
Verstegan's account was copied in Nathaniel Wanley's Wonders of the Little World ( 1687 ), which was the immediate source of Robert Browning's well-known poem ( see nineteenth century below ).
Robert Simson ( 14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768 ) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle ( November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687 ) was a French explorer.
* Sir Robert Rous, 4th Baronet ( c. 1687 – 1735 )
Robert Cavelier de La Salle, in 1687, called the stream the " River of Canoes ".
* Robert Wright ( judge ) ( c. 1634 – 1689 ), Lord Chief Justice of England, 1687 – 1688
Named for the area's first seigneur and French explorer Robert René Cavelier de La Salle ( born at Rouen, France in 1643, died in Texas in 1687 ).
* Robert Johannson Lichton ( April 1681 – 1687 )
This station is named for nearby LaSalle Boulevard, named for explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle ( 1643 – 1687 ), who founded the town of Lachine and claimed Louisiana for France.
* Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath ( 1687 – 1737 ) ( forfeit 1716 )
Having, however, refused to abet the king's design of introducing martial law by declining to order the execution of a deserter from the army, he was transferred to the chief-justiceship of the common pleas in April 1687, being succeeded in the king's bench by the more compliant Robert Wright.
* Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale 15 January 1685 – 1687
* Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers 2 September 1687 – 19 November 1687
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* November 22 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer ( d. 1687 )
* René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ( 1643 – 1687 ), cleric and explorer
* French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was killed in Navasota in 1687
* René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ( 1643 – 1687 ), French explorer of North America
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