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 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

* 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.

* November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer ( d. 1687 )

* Jean-Baptiste Lully ( 1632 – 1687 ), an Italian-born Baroque composer of French opera

From the earliest ballets up to the time of Jean-Baptiste Lully ( 1632 – 1687 ), the music of ballet was indistinguishable from ballroom dance music.

* Pierre Beauchamp ( 1631 – 1705 ), First ballet master of the Ballet du Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique in Paris from 1673 – 1687, he invented the comédie-ballet with Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully, codified the five positions of the feet and created a system of dance notation.

Lully died in 1687, and Quinault, his occupation gone, became devout, and began a poem called the " Destruction of Heresy.

When Lully died in 1687 from a gangrenous abscess on the foot which developed after he stuck himself with the long staff he used for conducting, France lost one of the most influential conductors and composers of the seventeenth century.

Jean-Antoine Bérard's 1755 compilation L ' art du chant includes a selection of songs ( sans paroles ) by composers such as Lully ( 1632 – 1687 ) and Rameau ( 1683 – 1764 ), chosen for their value as exercises in vocal technique.

They were a Huguenot ( French Protestant ) family who fled to New York about 1687 to avoid the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV.

William's envoy Everhard van Weede Dijkvelt visited England between February and May 1687, instructed to persuade James to help contain French aggression.

After this, the French treatises by Machy ( 1685 ), Rousseau ( 1687 ), Danoville ( 1687 ), and Loulie ( 1700 ) show further developments in playing technique.

* November 22 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer ( d. 1687 )

* April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian ( b. 1687 )

A French mission was established in 1687 at Assinie, near the Gold Coast ( now Ghana ) border, and it became the first European outpost in that area.

Simpson's system of taxonomy, however, was far from the first ; taxonomies / descriptions for the classification of intersexuality were developed by Italian physician and physicist Fortuné Affaitati in 1549, French surgeon Ambroise Paré in 1573, French physician and sexology pioneer Nicolas Venette in 1687 ( under the pseudonym Vénitien Salocini ), and French Zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1832.

A significant number of the French progenitors of the Afrikaner people were Huguenots, who first began to arrive between 1687 and 1691 in flight from the persecution that lasted for one hundred years after the Edict of Nantes was revoked.

Designed to bar English traders from the upper lakes, the fort in 1687 was the mobilization center for a war party of French and Indians.

* French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was killed in Navasota in 1687

In 1687 he made the daring innovation of lecturing in German instead of Latin and gave a lecture on the topic " How One Should Emulate the French Way of Life ," referring to the French use of their native language not only in everyday life but in scholarship as well ; according to scholar Klaus Luig, this event marks the real beginning of the Enlightenment in Germany.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle ( November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687 ) was a French explorer.

Esprit Fléchier ( June 10, 1632 – February 16, 1710 ) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710.

In 1687, Guayaquil was attacked and looted by English and French pirates under the command of George d ' Hout ( English ) and Picard and Groniet ( Frenchmen ).

However, a French ultimatum issued in 1687 failed to gain the desired assurances from the Emperor whose victories in the east made the Germans less anxious to compromise in the west.