Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
Years: 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 - 1687 - 1688 1689 1690 1691 1692
Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. 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. King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists. 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 Year in topic 1687 in science Births January 30 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, master builder (+ 1753) Antonion Lazzaro Moro - Italian geologist (+ 1752) Deaths March 22 - Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer John Alden Sir William Petty
