Editing 1688 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 2]] &ndash; Fleeing from the Spanish Navy, French pirate [[Raveneau de Lussan]] and his 70 men arrive on the west coast of Nicaragua, sink their boats, and make a difficult 10 day march to the city of [[Ocotal]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=de Lussan |first1=Raveneau |last2=Wilbur |first2=Marguerite Eyer |title=Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer of the Spanish Main and early French filibuster of the Pacific |date=1930 |publisher=The Arthur H. Clark company |pages=251, 257–262 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b721060&view=1up&seq=271&q1=seventy |access-date=6 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] &ndash; Pirates [[Charles Swan (pirate)|Charles Swan]] and [[William Dampier]] and the crew of the privateer ''Cygnet'' become the first Englishmen to set foot on the continent of [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=J.H.M. |title=The story of William Dampier |date=1911 |publisher=Angus & Robertson Ltd. |pages=55–56|location=Sydney |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-39403686/view?partId=nla.obj-39409291#page/n56/mode/1up |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>  
* [[January 11]] &ndash; The [[Patta Fort]] and the [[Avandha Fort]], located in what is now [[India]]'s [[Maharashtra]] state near [[Ahmednagar]], are captured from the [[Maratha clan]] by Mughul Army commander Matabar Khan.  The Mughal Empire rules the area 73 years.
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Ilona Zrínyi]], who has defended the [[Palanok Castle]] in [[Hungary]] from Austrian Imperial forces since 1685, is forced to surrender to General [[Antonio Carafa (general)|Antonio Caraffa]].
* [[January 29]] &ndash; Madame [[Jeanne Guyon]], French mystic, is arrested in France and imprisoned for seven months.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guerrier |first1=Louis |title=Madame Guyon: sa vie, sa doctrine et son influence, d'après les écrits originaux et des documents inédits |date=1881 |publisher=H. Herluison |pages=158, 170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmorAAAAYAAJ&q=septembre%201688 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] (January 20, 1687 old style) &ndash; [[James II of England|King James II]] of England and Scotland issues [[Acts of grace (piracy)#1687/8 proclamation|a proclamation offering amnesty to pirates]] in the West Indies who surrender to [[Robert Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Robert Holmes]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brigham |first1=Clarence Saunders |title=British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783 |date=1911 |publisher=American Antiquarian Society |location=Worcester |page=140 |url=https://archive.org/details/royalproclamations12brigrich/page/140/mode/2up |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; Six French Jesuit scientists, [[Joachim Bouvet]], [[Jean-François Gerbillon]], [[Louis-Daniel Lecomte]], [[Guy Tachard]], [[Claude de Visdelou]] and the leader, [[Jean de Fontaney]], arrive in [[Beijing]] and are welcomed by the [[Kangxi Emperor|Emperor of China, Kangxi]].<ref>[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02723b.htm "Joachim Bouvet"], The Catholic Encyclopedia online, NewAdvent.org</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[James Renwick (Covenanter)|James Renwick]], the last of the [[Covenanters]] in Scotland to be martyred for opposing the authority of [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]], is publicly hanged at [[Grassmarket]] square in [[Edinburgh]]. 
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Abaza Siyavuş Pasha]], the [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]], is assassinated by the [[Janissary|Janissaries]], the Turkish troops who had placed him in power in September, after the new Sultan fails to make payment of an expected bonus.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; The French opera ''[[David et Jonathas]]'', composed by [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]], is performed for the first time.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Letellier |first1=Robert Ignatius |title=The Bible in Music |date=23 June 2017 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6848-8 |page=306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVwpDwAAQBAJ&dq=David+et+Jonathas+%2228+february+1688%22&pg=PA306 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; A great fire devastates [[Bungay]], [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kirby |first1=John |title=The Suffolk Traveller |date=1764 |publisher=J. Shave |location=London |page=157 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c34_AQAAMAAJ&dq=fire+bungay+%221+march+1688%22&pg=PA157 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March]] &ndash; [[William Dampier]] makes the first recorded visit to [[Christmas Island]], now a territory of Australia, located south of the island of Java (now part of Indonesia).