1687 in England

1687 Events from the year 1687 in England. Incumbents Monarch – James II Events 27 January – French-born Catholic midwife Mary Hobry murders her abusive husband, Denis, dismembers his body and conceals the remains in London. She will be convicted of murder and burned at the stake on 2 March.Dolan Frances E. Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy https://books.google.com/books?id=dPHSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90 2010 University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-0177-2 4 April – King James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence (or Declaration for the Liberty of Conscience), suspending laws against Roman Catholics and nonconformists.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 196–197 0-7126-5616-2 1 May – King James II attends the consecration of Ferdinando d'Adda, Papal Nuncio to London, as titular Archbishop of Amasia in the Royal Chapel of St James's Palace. 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 c. 26 August – Henry Carey, poet, dramatist and songwriter (suicide 1743) 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, actress, a mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650) 10 December – Robert Venables, Parliamentarian soldier (born c. 1613) 16 December – Sir William Petty, philosopher, scientist and economist (born 1623)Petty, Sir William Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/petty-sir-william-a7303 www.dib.ie 27 May 2022 en References 1687 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England