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.

In 1687 Ancillon was appointed head of the so-called Academie des nobles, the principal educational establishment of the state ; later on, as councillor of embassy, he took part in the negotiations which led to the assumption of the title of " King in Prussia " by the elector.

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.

Tushiyetu Khan attacked the right wing of the Khalkhas and killed Shira in 1687.

Venice and Genoa attacked and captured it several times during the 15th and 16th centuries, but never re-established their rule effectively, except during Venetian rule of 1687 – 1715.

In May 1687 he commanded a merchant vessel, the Malaga Merchant, and was aboard her when she was attacked by a Salé pirate.

The Piraeus Lion was looted in 1687 by Francesco Morosini during his expedition against Athens and was carried to the Venetian Arsenal, where it still stands today.

The buildings of the Acropolis suffered significant damage during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War.

" Life and works of Confucius, by Prospero Intorcetta, 1687

" Life and works of Confucius ", by Prospero Intorcetta, 1687.

These spurious dogs floated about the astronomical literature until Hevelius decided to specify their presence in the sky by making them a separate constellation in 1687.

In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.

" Life and works of Confucius ", by Prospero Intorcetta, 1687.

Two other works by him were De Pulsus Variatione ( 1685 ), and Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore ( 1688 ); His Opuscula were collected in 1687.

In 1687 an English attempt to resettle Fort Albany failed due to ruses and deceptions by d ' Iberville.

In 1687, he resumed his connection with the theatre by furnishing the music for Dryden's tragedy, Tyrannick Love.

* the Order of the Thistle, founded by King James VII of Scotland ( also known as James II of England ) in 1687

* 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

They were first compiled by Sir Isaac Newton in his work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published on July 5, 1687.

The two-body solutions were published by Newton in Principia in 1687.

Personally not unfriendly to Miguel de Molinos, Innocent XI nevertheless yielded to the enormous pressure brought to bear upon him to confirm in 1687 the judgement of the inquisitors by which sixty-eight quietist propositions of Molinos were condemned as blasphemous and heretical.

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