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 )

* 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 )

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.

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

On March 19, 1687, La Salle was slain by Pierre Duhaut during an ambush while talking to Duhaut's decoy, Jean L ' Archevêque.

Jean Rousseau ( 1 October 1644 – 1 June 1699 ) was a French viol player, theorist, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole ( 1687 ), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time, as well as on techniques used in the construction of viols ( Green 2001 ).

The impact of Jean Chardin ’ s Voyages en Perse, to which he owes most of his information about Persia – which is far from superficial – must of course be recognized ; he owned the two-volume edition of 1687 and purchased the extended edition in ten volumes in 1720.

He came to China in 1687, as one of six Jesuits, the first group of French missionaries to China, sent by the French King Louis XIV of France, under Superior Jean de Fontaney.

Jean Lebeuf ( 7 March 1687 – 10 April 1760 ) was a French historian.

Jean Claude ( 1619 – 13 January 1687 ) was a French Protestant divine.

The Académy was dominated by the " Moderns " ( Charles Perrault, Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin ) and Perrault's poem " Le Siècle de Louis le Grand " (" The Century of Louis the Great ") in 1687 was the strongest expression of their conviction that the reign of Louis XIV was the equal of Augustus.

* October 15-Jean Baptiste Senaillé, virtuoso violinist and composer ( born 1687 )

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

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

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

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.