Editing 1687 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]] &ndash; With the end of latest of the [[Savoyard–Waldensian wars]] in the [[Duchy of Savoy]] between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as the [[Waldensians]], [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia|Victor Amadeus III]], Duke of Savoy, carries out the release of 3,847 surviving prisoners and their families, who had forcibly been converted to Catholicism, and permits the group to emigrate to Switzerland.
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell]], is appointed as the last [[Lord Deputy of Ireland]] by the English crown, and begins efforts to include more Roman Catholic Irishmen in the administration. Upon the removal of King James II in England and Scotland, the Earl of Tyrconnell loses his job and is replaced by James, who reigns briefly as King of Ireland until William III establishes his rule over the isle.
* [[January 27]] &ndash; In one of the most sensational cases in England in the 17th century, midwife [[Mary Hobry]] murders her abusive husband, Denis Hobry, after he beats her up for the last time. Mary then dismembers his body and scatters the remains in a dunghill and in several [[outhouse]]s (or privies) in the area.  Despite a defense of justifiable homicide, Mary is convicted of murder and burned at the stake.
* [[February 7]] &ndash; The [[Arjeplog blasphemy trial of 1687|Arjeplog blasphemy trial]] begins for Erik Eskilsson and Amund Thorsson, two practitioners of the [[Sami religion]] who had resisted [[Christianization of the Sámi people|Sweden's efforts at their conversion to Christianity]].  Eskilsson and Thorsson are acquitted of the charges after agreeing to convert to Christianity.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; In India, troops under the command of [[Job Charnock]] of the [[East India Company]], preparing to go to war against the Nawab of Bengal, [[Shaista Khan]] of the Mughal empire, destroy his fortresses located at [[Thane|Thana]].  <ref>Lieutenant Colonel D. G. Crawford, ''A Brief History of the Hughli District'' (Bengal Secretariat Press, 1902) p. 18</ref>
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The [[Declaration of Indulgence (1687)|Declaration of Indulgence]] is issued in [[Scotland]] by [[James II of England|King James VII]] as one of the first steps in establishing freedom of religion in the British Isles, eliminating enforcement of [[Penal law (British)|criminal penalties]] against persons who failed to conform with Anglicanism.  As King James II of England, he issues a similar declaration on April 4.
* [[March 19]] &ndash; The men under explorer [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle|Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] mutiny, while searching for the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]].   Pierre Duhaut murders La Salle, near what is now [[Navasota, Texas]].