Year
1687 (
MDCLXXXVII) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1687
January - June
July - December
Undated
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)
- Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (died 1720)
- See also .
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 Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)
- December 16 - Sir William Petty, English philosopher (born 1623)
- See also .
Upper Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC | 9th millennium BC | 8th millennium BC
- 7th millennium BC | 6th millennium BC | 5th millennium BC
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Overview
During this century the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula comes rapidly under Islamic Arab domination.
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Western European
"Dark Ages" applied later to this period
..... Click the link for more information. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.
Overview
The tenth century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval.
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During the twentieth century, it became popular to look at that century's decades as historical entities in themselves.
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Centuries: 8th century -
9th century - 10th century
820s 830s 840s -
850s - 860s 870s 880s
850 851 852 853 854
855 856 857 858 859
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- 850–859: Christian "Martyr Movement" in Muslim Córdoba, Spain.
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- Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')
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- The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.
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880 881 882 883 884
885 886 887 888 889
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- 885 — Vikings lay siege to Paris
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895 896 897 898 899
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- 899 — Death of Alfred the Great
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900 901 902 903 904
905 906 907 908 909
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10th century - 11st century
880s 890s 900s -
910s - 920s 930s 940s
910 911 912 913 914
915 916 917 918 919
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- Construction begins on the first church at the monastery of Cluny.
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Twenty-first century
- 2100 - 2099 - 2098 - 2097 - 2096 - 2095 - 2094 - 2093 - 2092 - 2091
- 2090 - 2089 - 2088 - 2087 - 2086 - 2085 - 2084 - 2083 - 2082 - 2081
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850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
882 883 884 - 885 - 886 887 888
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9th century - 10th century
850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
883 884 885 - 886 - 887 888 889
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850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
884 885 886 - 887 - 888 889 890
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850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891
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850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
886 887 888 - 889 - 890 891 892
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860s 870s 880s - 890s - 900s 910s 920s
887 888 889 - 890 - 891 892 893
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-1680- 1681 1682 1683 1684 . 1685 . 1686 . 1687 . 1688 . 1689 . 1690
In science: 1677 1678 1679 -1680- 1681 1682 1683
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-1687- 1688 . 1689 . 1690 1691 . 1692 . 1693 . 1694 . 1695 . 1696 .
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-1687- 1688 . 1689 . 1690 1691 . 1692 . 1693 . 1694 . 1695 . 1696 .
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-1687- 1688 . 1689 . 1690 1691 . 1692 . 1693 . 1694 . 1695 . 1696 .
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-1687- 1688 . 1689 . 1690 1691 . 1692 . 1693 . 1694 . 1695 . 1696 .
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Dahomey - Akaba, King of Dahomey (1685-1708) - Ethiopia - Iyasu I, Emperor of Ethiopia, (1682 - 1706)
Asia
- China (Qing Dynasty) - Kangxi, Emperor of China (1662-1722)
- Japan -
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Portugal
- Angola - Luís Lobo da Silva, Governor of Angola (1684-1688)
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This is the calendar for any common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E). Examples: Gregorian year 2003 or Julian year 1903 (see bottom tables).
(A common year is a year with 365 days — in other words, not a leap year, which has 366.
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