* August 12 – Battle of Mohács ( 1687 ): imperial army under Charles V, Duke of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Turks and enables Austria to conquer most of Ottoman-occupied Hungary.

Osijek was restored to western rule on 29 September 1687 when the Turks were ousted and the city was occupied by the Habsburg Empire.

The Turks burnt Miskolc in 1544 and the city had to pay heavy taxes until 1687.

The Turks conquered Herceg Novi in 1482, and ruled for 200 years, until 1687.

The Turks invaded Kostajnica in 1556 and it wasn't until 1687 that the town was liberated.

The reformation rapidly spread through the town, and the Calvinists owned the old temple of the Clarissa-sisters till 1687, when the Turks were forced out.

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

There were a number of theologians who defended Calvinistic orthodoxy against Amyraut and Saumur, including Friedrich Spanheim ( 1600 – 1649 ) and Francis Turretin ( 1623 – 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 ).

The Society had just spent its book budget on a History of Fishes, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley ( who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ): the book appeared in summer 1687.

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arrive between 1687 and 1691 in flight from the persecution that lasted for one hundred years after the Edict of Nantes was revoked.

Another daughter, Anne, arrived in 1684, followed by John in 1686, Elizabeth in 1687, Mary in 1689, and Charles in 1690 who lived for only two years.

This was originally proposed by Abbé Anton Moro ( 1687 – 1750 ) with reference to his studies of volcanic islands, and was taken up by James Hutton who put forward a uniformitarian theory extending over infinite time in which rocks were worn away by weathering and erosion, then were re-formed and uplifted by heat and pressure.

One of the earliest was Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), who in 1734 produced an edition of the Greek New Testament.

The vaqueros of the Americas were the horsemen and cattle herders of Spanish Mexico, who first came to California with the Jesuit priest Eusebio Kino in 1687, and later with expeditions in 1769 and the Juan Bautista de Anza expedition in 1774.

William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA ( 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765 ) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as " probably ... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology ".

He was now firmly established in the favour of the king, who gave him successively the abbacy of Saint-Séverin, in the diocese of Poitiers, the office of almoner to the Dauphine, and in 1685 the bishopric of Lavaur, from which he was in 1687 promoted to that of Nîmes.

" Among these were Augustine Van Donck, who bought land in the Tappan Patent in 1687.

According to Jovan Erdeljanović, in his book " Stara Crna Gora ", all descendants of Jovan Martinović, who has been mentioned since 1687, have emigrated to Vraka.

In English composition he met greater success ; in 1687 he published An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation, a reply to Obadiah Walker, who, when elected master of University College, Oxford in 1676, had printed in a press set up by him there an attack on the Reformation written by Abraham Woodhead.

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

In October 1687 James asked the Lord Lieutenants to provide three standard questions to all members of the Commission of the Peace: would they consent to the repeal of the Test Act and the penal laws ; would they assist candidates who would do so ; and would they accept the Declaration of Indulgence.

Henry Savile, British envoy at Versailles, who died unmarried in 1687, was a younger brother of the first marquess.

Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby ( 1688 – 1726 ), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), and the American Jonathan Edwards ( 1703 – 58 ) “ fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century .” It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel.

The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland ( also known as James II of England and Ireland ) who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order.

Although the " restoration " in 1687 of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle was accomplished by King James VII & II, the initiative for-essentially-founding this Scottish Royal Order can be attrbuted to John Drummond, 1st Earl and 1st Jacobite Duke of Melfort, then Secretary of State for Scotland, who together with his elder brother James Drummond, 4th Earl and 1st Jacobite Duke of Perth, then Lord Chancellor of Scotland, were among the eight Founding Knights.

He was a friend and close colleague of the famous William Mitchell who was imprisoned for preaching in 1687.

* April 2-Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist, botanical artist, and physician who studied and produced several papers on cryptogams ( lower plants that do not have seeds or flowers ), such as mosses and algae ( born 1687 )

He was the husband of Mary, daughter of Thomas Foote, Lord Mayor of London in 1649, who had been created a Baronet in 1660 ( a title which became extinct on his death in 1687 ).

In March 1687, he became the deputy-governor for East Jersey on the absence of Deputy Lord Neill Campbell, who returned to England for business reasons.

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.

William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

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.

Krystyna Skowrońska, renamed Christina Samuilovna Skavronskaya ( 1687 – 14 April 1729 ), had married Simon-Heinrich N ( 1672 – 1728 ) and their descendants became the Counts Guendrikov.

Sophia Dorothea had a second child, a daughter named after her, in 1687, but there were no other pregnancies.

" A more recent assessment has been that while acceptance of Newton's theories was not immediate, by the end of a century after publication in 1687, " no one could deny that " ( out of the ' Principia ') " a science had emerged that, at least in certain respects, so far exceeded anything that had ever gone before that it stood alone as the ultimate exemplar of science generally.

Rule 4 made its appearance in the third ( 1726 ) edition ; Rules 1-3 were present as ' Rules ' in the second ( 1713 ) edition, and predecessors of them were also present in the first edition of 1687, but there they had a different heading: they were not given as ' Rules ', but rather in the first ( 1687 ) edition the predecessors of the three later ' Rules ', and of most of the later ' Phenomena ', were all lumped together under a single heading ' Hypotheses ' ( in which the third item was the predecessor of a heavy revision that gave the later Rule 3 ).

( Newton had also communicated ' De motu ...' to Flamsteed, and during the period of composition he exchanged a few letters with Flamsteed about observational data on the planets, eventually acknowledging Flamsteed's contributions in the published version of the ' Principia ' of 1687.

Newton had been urged to make a new edition of the ' Principia ' since the early 1690s, partly because copies of the first edition had already become very rare and expensive within a few years after 1687.

The company's crest is based on a coat of arms that Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac had created at the time of his marriage in Quebec in 1687.

Lord Crew, bishop of Durham, collated him to the rectory of Long Newton in his diocese in 1687, and intended to give him that of Sedgefield with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read James II's Declaration of Indulgence.

During the Great Turkish War ( 1667 – 1698 ), Slavonia was regained in 1687 when the Ottomans abandoned the region — unlike western Bosnia, which had been part of Croatia before the Ottoman conquest.

Since 1687, for their heroic attempt to fight the fire high up in the Saint-Rumbold's Tower, where the gothic windows had shown the flaring of only the moon between clouds, Mechlinians have been called Maneblussers ( moon extinguishers ).

In 1687 Blow became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral ; in 1695 he was elected organist of St Margaret's, Westminster, and is said to have resumed his post as organist of Westminster Abbey, from which in 1680 he had retired or been dismissed to make way for Purcell.

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.

In 1687 he retired to a country-house he had bought at Auteuil, which Racine, because of the numerous guests, calls his hôtellerie d ' Auteuil.

Records show that prior to the rebuilding in 1687, the Inn had been " so incommodious " that the " ancients " were forced to work two to a chamber.

By the end of 1687, therefore, William had envisaged intervention, and by early 1688 he had secretly began to make active preparations.