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.

Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

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.

For his services Eugene was promoted to Lieutenant-General in November 1687.

The first novel to expose the complex play that the genre allows was Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which appeared in three volumes in 1684, 1685, and 1687.

For 20 years, Yale was part of the British East India Company, and he became the second governor of a settlement at Madras ( now Chennai ), India, in 1687, after Streynsham Master.

To this effect, Chinna Venkatadri was sent to negotiate with the local Governor on August 4, 1687.

During Yale's Presidency, a plan for setting up a corporation in Madras was conceived by Josiah Child, the President of the Board of Directors of the East India Company, in a letter addressed to the factors at Madras on September 28, 1687.

Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with James II, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on December 30, 1687 which established the Corporation of Madras.

In August 1687 Count William Nassau de Zuylestein was sent to England, ostensibly to send condolences due to the death of the queen's mother.

This technology was applied to lead from 1678 and to copper from 1687.

The English term was first used by Henry More ( 1614 – 1687 ).

On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment.

Sextans is a minor equatorial constellation which was introduced in 1687 by Johannes Hevelius.

Stephen became one of the most popular saints in Hungary, and 20 August, which was also his feast day until 1687, is celebrated as a public holiday in Hungary commemorating the foundation of the state.

In 1687, it was moved to 2 September and remained there until the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints.

In 1677 the Prussian historian and educator Christoph Hartknoch was invited to be director of the Thorn Gymnasium, a post which he held until his death in 1687.

The word Unitarian had been circulating in private letters in England, in reference to imported copies of such publications as the Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians ( 1665 ), Henry Hedworth was the first to use the word " Unitarian " in print in English ( 1673 ), and the word first appears in a title in Stephen Nye's A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians ( 1687 ).

Year 1687 ( MDCLXXXVII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, ( 1596 – 1687 ), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle ( deceased 1637 ), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627.

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.

In 1687, Isaac Newton in Principia Mathematica showed that this was because the Earth was not a true sphere but slightly oblate ( flattened at the poles ) from the effect of centrifugal force due to its rotation, causing gravity to increase with latitude.

Forbidden by James to pay Mary a projected visit in the spring of 1687, Anne corresponded with her and was aware of William's plans to invade.

He was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Basel in 1687, remaining in this position for the rest of his life.

He had taken holy orders in 1687, preached occasionally in London with an eloquence which raised his reputation, and was soon appointed one of the royal chaplains.

The " new Deputy " refers to Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, who was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland by James II in 1687.

The office of Chancellor is mentioned and given custody of the seal of the Order in the 1687 statutes, but no-one was appointed to the position until 1913.

With the accession in 1685 of James II Shrewsbury was appointed a captain in order to defeat the Monmouth rebellion, although he resigned his commission in 1687 after refusing to bow to pressure from James to convert back to the Catholic faith.

He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Radnorshire ( 1682 – 1689 ), Deputy Lieutenant of Monmouthshire ( 1683 – 1687 ), Wiltshire ( 1683 – 1688 ) and Gloucestershire ( 1685 – 1687 ).

After serving in a few more minor positions, Monck was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica in 1687.

He was appointed adjunct professor of philosophy there soon after taking his master's degree in 1687, and in 1689 exchanged this for a similar position at Jena, where he also paid much attention to the study of history.

Following the accession of James II, Belasyse returned to favour and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in July 1686 and in 1687 was appointed as First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury which, on account of his Catholicism, caused political problems for James II.

In 1687 he was appointed professor of rhetoric, and in 1696 became a member of the theological faculty, occupying successively, according to the Basel custom, the chairs of dogmatics and polemics, Old Testament, and New Testament.

* Bonaventure Giffard ( appointed on 25 November 1687 – translated to the London District on 14 March 1703 )

At the head of an armed force of about 800 men Lavardin entered Rome in November 1687, and took forcible possession of his palace.

In 1687 Bombay was placed at the head of all the Company's possessions in India.

Eleonora Maria Jauch's ( 1732 – 1797 ) father-in-law was the dean of Bardowick Kaspar Nicolaus Overbeck, in whose foster-parental home August Hermann Francke 1687 had been guest when he experienced his so-called " Lüneburg conversion " ( Lüneburger Bekehrung ), making him one of the earliest leaders of Pietism.

Fontenelle had made his home in Rouen, but in 1687 he moved to Paris ; and in the same year he published his Histoire des oracles, a book which made a considerable stir in theological and philosophical circles.

Because of the fragility of the earthenware tiles used in its construction, the Trianon de porcelaine was demolished in 1687 and replaced by the Grand Trianon of pink marble ( marbre rose des Pyrénées ).

Between 1684 and 1687, Bayle published his Nouvelles de la république des lettres, a journal of literary criticism.

La Désolation des joueuses ( 1687 ) was still more successful.

* Traité des lignes du premier genre ( 1687 )

Among his original productions may be mentioned L ' Économie divine, ou système universel et démontré des æuvres et des desseins de Dieu envers les hommes ( Amsterdam, 1687 ; Eng.

Another work, La Paix des ames dans tous les partis du Chriatianisme ( 1687 ), disregards the formal creeds of the various churches, and appeals to the minority of really sincere Christians, urging them to an inner union without the abandonment of their external affiliations.

* Reisen van Nicolaus de Graaff, gedaan naar alle gewesten des werelds, beginnende 1639 tot 1687 incluis ( 1930 )

Simon's Réponse ( 1686 ) drew from Le Clerc a Defence des sentimens in the same year, which was followed by a new Réponse ( 1687 ).

The Young Students Library, like the Universal Historical Bibliothèque of 1687, was made up almost entirely of translated pieces, in this case mostly from the Journal des Sçavans, Bayle's Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, and Le Clerc's and La Crose's Bibliothèque Universelle et Historique.