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.
• July 5 - Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.
• December 31 - The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed IV (1648-1687) to Suleiman II (1687-1691)
• End of the reign of Emperor Reigen of Japan
• Emperor Higashiyama ascends to the throne of Japan
• The Parthenon's explosion which is caused by keeping gunpowder inside of it.

Births

• January 27 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
• March 7 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
• June 24 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
• September 7 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
• October 4 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
• October 21 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
• November 7 - William Stukeley, English archaologist (d. 1765)
• December 5 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
• December 26 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)

Deaths

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

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