WHAT HAPPENED IN 1687.
Look what happened the 1687.

Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. (19. March 1687)

Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. (5. July 1687)

Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire. (12. August 1687)

The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens. (26. September 1687)

The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. (26. September 1687)

The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope. (31. December 1687)