1687 in England

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Events from the year 1687 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - James II

Events

• 4 April - King James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence (or Declaration for the Liberty of Conscience), suspending laws against Roman Catholics and nonconformists.
• 4 September - King James II tries to expel the Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, for refusing to Catholicise their institution.

Publications

• 5 July - Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the Principia, is published by the Royal Society of London.

Births

• 7 November - William Stukeley, archaeologist (died 1765)

Deaths

• 16 April - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, statesman (born 1628)
• 1 September - Henry More, philosopher (born 1614)
• 12 September - John Alden, Mayflower pilgrim (born c. 1599)
• 21 October - Edmund Waller, poet (born 1606)
• 14 November - Nell Gwynne, mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)
• 16 December - Sir William Petty, philosopher (born 1623)