1688
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| Gregorian calendar | 1688 MDCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2441 |
| Armenian calendar | 1137 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԷ |
| Chinese calendar | 4324/4384-11-28 (丁卯年十一月廿八日) — to — 4325/4385-12-9(戊辰年十二月初九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1680 – 1681 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5448 – 5449 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1743 – 1744 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1610 – 1611 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4789 – 4790 |
| Iranian calendar | 1066 – 1067 |
| Islamic calendar | 1099 – 1100 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2231 |
1688 (MDCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events
- June 30 - A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the "Immortal Seven", invite William and Mary to depose James II of England.
- October 27 - King James II of England fires minister Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
- November 5 - Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham but James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
- November 23 - A group of 1500 Old Believers immolated themselves to avoid capture when troops of the tsar laid siege to their monastery on Lake Onega.
- November - Hearing that William has landed in England, Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands. Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack the Netherlands but instead strikes at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire with about 100,000 soldiers.
- December 11 - After a series of defeats King James II of England flees England for France.
Unknown dates
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- The Nine Years War begins in Europe and America.
- Austria occupies Belgrade.
- Friedrich I of Prussia becomes Kurfürst (Elector) of Brandenburg.
- Francesco Morosini becomes Doge of Venice.
- James, Callinicus II, and Neophytus IV are Patriarchs of Constantinople.
- Gerasimus I succeeds Parthenius I as Patriarch of Alexandria.
- Jan Stanislaw Zbaski succeeds Mikolaj Stefan Radziejowski as bishop of Warmia.
- Peter Delanoy succeeds Stephanus Van Cortlandt as mayor of New York City.
- Asmus Bremer becomes mayor of Kiel.
- Fire destroys Bungay in England.
- Neuruppin becomes a Prussian garrison town.
- Etienne Baluze publishes Marca hispanica.
- David Abercromby publishes Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore.
- Antonio Verrio begins work on the Heaven Room at Burghley House.
- William Dampier makes first recorded visit to Christmas Island.
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor becomes a member of the Royal Society.
- The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
- General Phetracha stages a coup d'état and becomes king of Ayutthaya.
Births
- January 18 - Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1765)
- January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian (died 1772)
- February 2 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (died 1741)
- February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (died 1763)
- April 4 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (died 1768)
- April 15 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (died 1758)
- May 22 - Alexander Pope, English poet (died 1744)
- June 10 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (died 1766)
- July 19 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (died 1766)
- August 14 - King Frederick William I of Prussia (died 1740)
- September 12 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (died 1731)
- October 17 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (died 1726)
- October 22 - Nadir Shah of Persia (died 1747)
- William Burnet, British colonial administrator (died 1729)
- Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)
Deaths
- January 7 - James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
- February 2 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (born 1610)
- April 29 - Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg ((born 1620)
- May 14 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (born 1619)
- June 5 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (born 1667)
- June 26 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
- July 11 - Narai of Thailand (born 1639
- July 21 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman (born 1610)
- August 25 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer and Governor of Jamaica (born c. 1635)
- August 31 - John Bunyan, English writer (born 1628)
- September 2 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (born 1631)
- October 6 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (born 1653)
- October 23 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (born 1610)
- November 26 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
- December 15 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (born 1634)
Publications
- John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle
- Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost
- The Bucharest Bible - Biblia de la Bucureşti, first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian
- Aphra Behn seminal female writer on slavery, Oroonoko The Royal Slave
- First printing of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
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