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1687| 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | May 1682 - August 1689 | Russia [administration] | After several days of unrest, the newly proclaimed Tsar Peter I the Great of Russia is overthrown by a faction led by the family of Tsar Alexis's first wife, Maria Miloslavsky, and backed by the Moscow Streltsy (musketeers). Peter and his mentally disabled half-brother Ivan V are proclaimed as joint tsars, with his half-sister Sofia as regent. | | 1687 | England [literature and language] | The English poet and dramatist John Dryden publishes his religious allegory The Hind and the Panther. | | 1687 | [maths] | The English mathematician Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica/The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, his most important work. It presents his theories of motion, gravity, and mechanics, which form the basis of much of modern physics. | | August 1687 | Ottoman Empire, Venice, Italy, Greece [Ottoman–Venetian Wars (1499–1687)] | Venetian forces take Corinth from the Ottoman Turks and lay siege to Athens. A bombardment seriously damages the Parthenon after a powder magazine explodes. The Ottomans surrender the city and are driven out of the Morea. | | 12 August 1687 | Hungary, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire [wars] | Imperial forces under Charles, Duke of Lorraine, unexpectedly defeat an Ottoman army, led by Süleyman Pasha, at Nagyharsány (Berg Hasan), near Mohács. For the first time in 150 years Hungary is free from Ottoman influence. | | 7 November 1687 | Ottoman Empire [revolution] | As a result of Ottoman defeats in the war with Austria, an army mutiny takes place in Constantinople, in which Mehmed IV is deposed in favour of Süleyman II. Fazil Mustafa Pasa Köprülü becomes second Vizier and is promoted, in 1689, to Grand Vizier. | | 9 December 1687 | Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Holy Roman Empire [administration] | The Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I's son Archduke Joseph is crowned as king of Hungary. The coronation brings to an end the negotiations at Pressburg in which a diet (assembly) of the Hungarian Estates has renounced its rights of resistance and recognized the Hungarian crown as a hereditary possession of the male line of Habsburgs. |
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