1687

Events 
 March 19 – The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
 April 4 – King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists.
 May 6 – Emperor Higashiyama succeeds Emperor Reigen on the throne of Japan.
 July 5 –  Isaac Newton's three laws of motion (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) is published.
 August 12 – Battle of Mohács, fight between Sultan Mehmed IV's Ottoman Turks and Emperor Leopold I's Austrian Habsburgs' forces commanded by Charles of Lorraine.
 September 28 – The Parthenon explodes, while being used as a gunpowder store.
 December 31 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

 Undated 
 Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed IV (1648-1687) to Suleiman II (1687-1691).

 Births 
 January 27 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (died 1753)
 March 7 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (died. 1760)
 June 24 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (died 1757)
 September 7 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (died 1772)
 October 4 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (died 1768)
 October 21 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1759)
 November 7 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (died 1765)
 December 5 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)
 December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (died 1755)
 date unknown Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (died 1720)

 Deaths 
 January 13 – Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (born 1619)
 January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (born 1611)
 March 19 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (born 1643)
 March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (born 1632)
 March 28 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (born 1596)
 April 12 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer (born c.1628)
 April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (born 1628)
 September 1 – Henry More, English philosopher (born 1614)
 September 12 – John Alden, Mayflower pilgrim (born c.1599)
 September 28 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (born 1623)
 October 13 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (born 1633)
 October 21 – Edmund Waller, English poet (born 1606)
 November 14 – Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)
 December 16 – Sir William Petty, English philosopher (born 1623)