Editing 1688

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[[File:Prince of Orange engraving by William Miller after Turner R739.jpg|thumb|300px|[[November 15]]: The [[Glorious Revolution]] begins as [[William III of England|William of Orange]], primary Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, leads an invasion of England with 20,000 soldiers and marches towards [[London]].]]
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== Events ==
=== 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).

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Francesco Morosini]] becomes [[Doge of Venice]].<ref name="NE">{{cite book |last1=Setton |first1=Kenneth Meyer |title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century |date=1991 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-192-7 |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&dq=Francesco+Morosini+%223+april+1688%22&pg=PA346|access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|346}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Romanin |first1=Samuele |title=Storia documentata di Venezia: Tomo VII |date=1858 |publisher=Naratovich |page=491 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHQ5AAAAcAAJ&dq=Francesco+Morosini+%223+aprile+1688%22&pg=PA491 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Morean War]]: The Venetian forces under [[Francesco Morosini]] evacuate [[Athens]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bearman |first1=P. |last2=Bianquis |first2=Th. |last3=Bosworth |first3=C.E. |last4=van Donzel |first4=E. |last5=Heinrichs |first5=W.P. |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |date=1986 |publisher=Brill |page=739 |url=https://archive.org/details/ei2-complete/Encyclopaedia_of_Islam_vol_1_A-B/page/739/mode/2up?q=athens |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> and [[Piraeus]].
* [[April 18]] (Julian calendar) &ndash; The Germantown ''Quaker Protest Against Slavery'' is drafted by four [[Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Germantown]] [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=II |first1=Edwin Wolf |title=Germantown and the Germans|date=1983 |publisher=The Library Company of Philadelphia |isbn=978-0-914076-72-8 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VmzfBuX1Z2QC&dq=%22april+18+1688%22+Quaker+Protest+Against+Slavery&pg=PA11 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; King [[James VII and II|James II of England]] orders his [[Declaration of Indulgence (1687)|Declaration of Indulgence]], suspending penal laws against [[Catholic Church|Catholics]], to be read from every [[Anglican]] pulpit in England.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Killeen |first1=Kevin |last2=Smith |first2=Helen |last3=Willie |first3=Rachel |title=The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, C. 1530-1700 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-968697-1 |page=442 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAM7CgAAQBAJ&dq=Declaration+of+Indulgence+%224+may+1688%22&pg=PA442 |access-date=8 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Church of England]] and its staunchest supporters, the peers and gentry, are outraged; on [[June 8]] the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[William Sancroft]], is imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]] for refusing to proclaim it.
* [[May 9]] (April 29 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg|Friedrich Wilhelm]], the ''Great Elector'' of [[Brandenburg-Prussia]], dies.<ref name="FE">{{cite book |last1=Maurice |first1=C. Edmund |title=Life of Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg |date=1926 |publisher=G. Allen & Unwin ltd. |page=177 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008725684&view=1up&seq=183&q1=1688 |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref> [[Frederick I of Prussia|Friedrich III]] becomes [[Prince-elector|Elector]] of Brandenburg-Prussia until [[1701]], when he becomes the first King of [[Prussia]], as Friedrich I.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; King [[Narai]] of [[Ayutthaya kingdom|Ayutthaya]] nominates Princess [[Sudawadi]] as his successor, with [[Constantine Phaulkon]], Mom Pi and [[Phetracha]] acting as joint regents.<ref name="NA">{{cite book |last1=Cruysse |first1=Dirk van der |title=Siam and the West, 1500-1700 |date=2002 |publisher=Silkworm Books |location=Chiang Mai |isbn=978-974-7551-57-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/siamwest150017000000cruy/page/444/mode/2up?q=%2210+may%22 |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|444}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smithies |first1=Michael |title=Robert Challe and Siam |journal=Journal of the Siam Society |date=1993 |volume=81 |issue=1 |page=97 |url=https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1993/03/JSS_081_1f_Smithies_RobertChalleAndSiam.pdf |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; The arrest of King [[Narai]] of Ayutthaya launches a [[Siamese revolution of 1688|coup d'état]].
* [[June 5]] 
**A [[1688 Sannio earthquake|7.0 magnitude earthquake]]<ref>{{cite web |title=5 June 1688 earthquake |url=https://www.emidius.eu/AHEAD/event/16880605_1530_000 |website=www.emidius.eu |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref> strikes southern Italy at 6:30 in the evening and kills at least 10,000 people in the [[Kingdom of Naples]] in what is now the [[province of Benevento]].
**[[Constantine Phaulkon]] is beheaded after having been arrested in May.<ref name="CP">{{cite thesis |last=Strach III |first=Walter J. |date=2004 |title=Constantine Phaulkon and Somdet Phra Narai: Dynamics of Court Politics in Seventeenth Century Siam |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/18f5fa01-b83e-45e2-b981-639c319b7045/content |type=M.A  |publisher=University of Hawai'i |pages=1–2 |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; The birth of [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] (later known as the ''Old Pretender''), son and heir to James II of England and his Catholic wife [[Mary of Modena]], at [[St James's Palace]] in London, increases public disquiet about a Catholic dynasty, particularly when the baby is baptised into the Catholic faith. Rumours about his true maternity swiftly begin to circulate.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; French forces under [[Chevalier de Beauregard]] abandon their garrison at [[Mergui]], following repeated Siamese attacks; this ultimately leads to their withdrawal from the country.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boucheron |first1=Patrick |last2=Gerson |first2=Stéphane |title=France in the World: A New Global History |date=9 April 2019 |publisher=Other Press, LLC |isbn=978-1-59051-942-4 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7r9kDwAAQBAJ&dq=Chevalier+de+Beauregard+mergui+24+june+1688&pg=PA374 |access-date=8 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; A high-powered conspiracy of notables (the ''[[Invitation to William|Immortal Seven]]'') invite Dutch [[stadtholder]] [[William III of England|William III of Orange]] and [[Mary II of England|Princess Mary]] to "defend the liberties of England", and depose [[James II of England|King James VII and II]].<ref>{{cite book |title=In Their Own Words 2: More letters from history |date=6 September 2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-84486-524-6 |pages=56–57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEptDwAAQBAJ&dq=immortal+seven+william+ii+%2230+june+1688%22&pg=PT57 |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 13]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Negroponte (1688)|siege of Negroponte]] by the Venetians begins.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kevin |title=Castles of the Morea |date=1 June 2006 |publisher=ISD LLC |isbn=978-1-62139-028-2 |page=183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aha1EAAAQBAJ&dq=Siege+of+Negroponte++13+july+1688&pg=PA183 |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Phetracha]] becomes king of [[Ayutthaya kingdom|Ayutthaya]], after a [[Siamese revolution of 1688|coup d'état]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Touche |first1=de La |last2=Verquains |first2=Jean Vollant des |title=Three Military Accounts of the 1688 'revolution' in Siam |date=2002 |publisher=Orchid Press |isbn=978-974-524-005-6 |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQdvAAAAMAAJ&q=crowned |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; The funding of the [[Glorious Revolution|armed invasion]] of [[William III of England|William III]] in England causes a financial crisis in the Dutch Republic.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NCvyi5_m6ScC&dq=crash+amsterdam+august+1688&pg=PA353| title = The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact by Jonathan Irvine Israel| isbn = 9780521544061| last1 = Israel| first1 = Jonathan Irvine| date = October 30, 2003| publisher = Cambridge University Press}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Great Turkish War]]: The Habsburg army [[Siege of Belgrade (1688)|captures Belgrade]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Amedoski |first1=Dragana |title=Belgrade 1521-1867 |date=26 December 2018 |publisher=Istorijski institut |isbn=978-86-7743-132-7 |pages=80–81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JF6LDwAAQBAJ&q=%20%226%20september%201688%22 |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] publishes his manifesto ''Memoire de raisons'', which lists his grievances and demands. He cites three major things as grievances: [[Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg]], who had been earlier elected to be the coadjutor-archbishop of Cologne with support of Louis being vetoed by the [[Pope Innocent XI|pope]], the continued aggressions and forming of alliances against France and providing an alternative to Fürstenberg in the Cologne election by the [[Holy Roman Empire]], and [[Philip William, Elector Palatine|Philip William]] becoming Elector Palatine and seizing the territory, which he believed belonged to [[Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine|Elizabeth Charlotte]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=XIV |first1=Louis |title=The French King's memorial to the Emperor of Germany |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A49229.0001.001/1:2.2?rgn=div2;view=fulltext |access-date=10 June 2023 |date=1688}}</ref>
* [[September 27]] &ndash; The [[War of the Grand Alliance|Nine Years' War]] begins in [[Europe]] and [[United States|America]] after [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] [[Siege of Philippsburg (1688)|attacks Philippsburg]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mijers |first1=Esther |last2=Onnekink |first2=David |title=Redefining William III : the impact of the king-stadholder in international context |date=2007 |publisher=Ashgate |location=Aldershot |isbn=978-0-7546-5028-7 |page=55 |url=https://archive.org/details/redefiningwillia0000unse/page/54/mode/2up?q=%2227+september%22 |access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 21]] &ndash; The Venetians raise the [[Siege of Negroponte (1688)|siege of Negroponte]].<ref name="NE" />{{rp|358}}
* [[October 26]] &ndash; King [[James II of England]] dismisses his [[Minister (government)|minister]] [[Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kenyon |first1=John Philipps |title=Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, 1641-1702 |date=1975 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport |isbn=978-0-8371-8150-9 |page=226 |url=https://archive.org/details/robertspencerear0000keny/page/226/mode/2up |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] (November 1 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; [[Glorious Revolution]]: [[William III of Orange]] sets sail a second time from [[Hellevoetsluis]], the Netherlands, to take over England, Scotland and Ireland from [[King James II of England]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jardine |first1=Lisa |title=Temptation in the Archives |date=2015 |publisher=UCL Press |location=London |isbn=9781910634097 |page=18 |url=https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/33203/548010.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ormrod |first1=David |last2=Rommelse |first2=Gijs |title=War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652-89 |date=2020 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78327-324-9 |page=115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAo7EAAAQBAJ&dq=Hellevoetsluis+%2211+november+1688%22&pg=PA115 |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] (November 5 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; The Glorious Revolution begins: [[William III of England|William of Orange]] lands at [[Torbay]], England with a multinational force of 20,000 soldiers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoppit |first1=Julian |authorlink=Julian Hoppit|title=A Land of Liberty?: England 1689-1727 |date=22 June 2000 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-158652-1 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OKWpDgAAQBAJ&dq=william+20,000+%225+november+1688%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> He makes no claim to the British Crown, saying only that he has come to save [[Protestantism]] and to maintain English liberty, and begins a march on [[London]].
* [[November 19]] (November 9 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; William of Orange captures [[Exeter]], after the magistrates flee the city.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Longmate |first1=Norman |title=Island fortress : the defence of Great Britain 1603-1945 |date=2001 |publisher=Pimlico |location=London |isbn=978-0-7126-6813-2 |page=108 |url=https://archive.org/details/islandfortressde0000long/page/108/mode/2up?q=exeter |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] (November 10 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; The [[Wincanton Skirmish]] between forces loyal to James II led by [[Patrick Sarsfield]] and a party of Dutch troops is one of the few armed clashes in England during the Glorious Revolution.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wauchope |first1=Piers |title=Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War |date=1992 |publisher=Irish Academic Press |location=Dublin |isbn=978-0-7165-2476-2 |pages=36–39 |url=https://archive.org/details/patricksarsfield0000wauc/page/36/mode/2up |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; A group of 1,500 [[Old Believers]] [[Self-immolation|immolate]] themselves to avoid capture, when troops of the [[Peter I of Russia|tsar]] lay [[siege]] to their [[monastery]] on [[Lake Onega]].
* [[November 26]] &ndash; Hearing that William of Orange has landed in [[England]], [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] declares war on the [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Modelski |first1=George |title=Documenting Global Leadership |date=18 June 1988 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-10227-3 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGuuCwAAQBAJ&dq=%2226+november+1688%22+louis+xiv+holy+roman+empire&pg=PA189 |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[File:Derry Guildhall Tercentenary Window of The Honourable The Irish Society Detail The shutting of the gates 7 December 1688 A.D. 2019 08 29.jpg|thumb|upright|[[December 7]]: The shutting of the gates in [[Derry]] in a stained glass window of the [[Guildhall, Derry|Guildhall]]<ref>{{cite journal |first=Billy |last=Kelly |title=THE GUILDHALL: Derry's Museum in Glass |journal=History Ireland |volume=17 |issue=6 |date=2009 |pages=66–69 |jstor=40588462}}</ref>]] The gates of [[Derry]] are shut in front of the Jacobite [[Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim|Earl of Antrim]] and his "redshanks".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=James Seaton |last2=Killen |first2=William Dool |last3=Alexander |first3=Samuel Davies |title=History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland |date=1860 |publisher=Robert Charter & Brothers |location=New York |page=232 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofpresbyt00reid/page/232/mode/2up?q=%227th+of+december%22 |access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref> This initiates the [[siege of Derry]], which is the first major event in the [[Williamite War in Ireland]].
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The Battle of Reading takes place in Reading, Berkshire. It is the only substantial military action in England during the Glorious Revolution and ends in a decisive victory for forces loyal to William of Orange.
* [[December 11]] &ndash; Having led his army to [[Salisbury]] and been deserted by his troops, [[James II of England|James VII and II]] attempts to flee to France.
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[William III of England|William of Orange]], Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and the future King William III of the United Kingdom, enters London.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Israel |first1=Jonathan Irvine |title=The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact |date=30 October 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-54406-1 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NCvyi5_m6ScC&dq=william+of+orange+london+%2218+december+1688%22&pg=PA1 |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Austria]]ns incite the [[Chiprovtsi Uprising]] against the [[Ottoman Caliphate|Ottomans]] in [[Bulgaria]] after the [[Siege of Belgrade (1688)|siege of Belgrade]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cholov |first1=Petar |title=Chiprovskoto vystanie 1688 g. - 9 |url=http://macedonia.kroraina.com/chipr/chipr_9.html |website=macedonia.kroraina.com |access-date=10 June 2023|language=bg}}</ref>
* [[Neuruppin]] becomes a [[Prussia]]n [[Garrison|garrison town]].
* The earliest known mention of the [[balalaika]] is made.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekkel |first1=Bibs |title=Complete Balalaika Book |date=18 August 2011 |publisher=Mel Bay Publications |isbn=978-1-61065-566-8 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Al2JNQLvpc4C&dq=Balalaika+%221688%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Oroonoko]]'', one of the first English novels and the first by a professional female author ([[Aphra Behn]]) is published.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Emanuel Swedenborg.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Emanuel Swedenborg]]]]
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Maria van Lommen]], Dutch gold- and [[silversmith]] (d. [[1742]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Lommen, Maria van |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Lomme |website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset]], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. [[1765]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire |date=1866 |publisher=Harrison |location=London |page=464 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MaAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lionel+Sackville+%2218+january+1688%22&pg=PA464 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; Queen [[Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden]] (d. [[1741]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ulrika Eleonora {{!}} queen of Sweden |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulrika-Eleonora |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Emanuel Swedenborg]], Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian (d. [[1772]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stroh |first1=Alfred H. |title=Grunddragen af Swedenborgs lif |date=1908 |publisher=Nykyrkliga bokförlaget |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOEvAQAAMAAJ&dq=Emanuel+Swedenborg+%2229+januari+1688%22&pg=PA1 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Marivaux]], French playwright (d. [[1763]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levi |first1=Anthony |title=Guide to French literature |date=1992 |publisher=St. James Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-55862-159-6 |page=494 |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetofrenchlit0000levi/page/494/mode/2up?q=%224+february%22 |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* March &ndash; [[William Burnet (administrator)|William Burnet]], British colonial administrator (d. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Capen |first1=Nahum |title=The Massachusetts State Record and Year Book of General Information |date=1849 |publisher=J. French |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ur8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=William+Burnet+%22march+1688%22&pg=PA42 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria Garthwaite]], British designer (d. [[1763]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Gordon |title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts |date=9 November 2006 |volume=1|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-518948-3 |page=409 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3Od9bcGus0C&dq=Anna+Maria+Garthwaite+%2214+march+1688%22&pg=PA409 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Joseph-Nicolas Delisle]], French astronomer (d. [[1768]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edney |first1=Matthew H. |last2=Pedley |first2=Mary Sponberg |title=The History of Cartography |date=15 May 2020 |volume=4|publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-33922-1 |page=342 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m9fkDwAAQBAJ&dq=Joseph-Nicolas+Delisle+%224+april+1688%22&pg=PA342 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Fasch]], German composer (d. [[1758]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Unger |first1=Melvin P. |title=Historical Dictionary of Choral Music |date=17 June 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7392-6 |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvD9Ou7wdccC&dq=Johann+Friedrich+Fasch+%2215+april+1688%22&pg=PA123 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Alexander Pope]], English poet (d. [[1744]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Pope, Alexander |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-22526 |year=2004 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22526}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], ''The Old Pretender'', claimant to the English and Scottish throne (d. [[1766]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Olive Peggy |title=James |date=1971 |publisher=Allen and Unwin |location=London |isbn=978-0-04-923056-9 |page=23 |url=https://archive.org/details/james00mill/page/22/mode/2up |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit)|Giuseppe Castiglione]], Italian missionary to China (d. [[1766]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beurdeley |first1=Cécile |last2=Beurdeley |first2=Michel |title=Giuseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors |date=1972 |publisher=Lund Humphries |isbn=978-0-8048-0987-0 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yD04AQAAIAAJ&q=Giuseppe+Castiglione+19+july+1688 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Abu l-Hasan Ali I]], ruler of Tunisia (d. [[1756]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; King [[Frederick William I of Prussia]] (d. [[1740]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Brokoff]], Czech sculptor (d. [[1731]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Umění |first1=Kruh pro Pěstování Dějin |title=Rocěnka |date=1922 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBBGAQAAMAAJ&dq=Ferdinand+Maxmili%C3%A1n+Brokoff+%2212.+z%C3%A1%C5%99%C3%AD+1688%22&pg=PA46 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=cs}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Domenico Zipoli]], Italian-born composer (d. [[1726]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chapple |first1=Christopher |title=The Jesuit Tradition in Education and Missions: A 450-year Perspective |date=1993 |publisher=University of Scranton Press |isbn=978-0-940866-17-1 |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSHaAAAAMAAJ&q=%2217%20october%201688%22 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Nader Shah]] of [[Persia]] (d. [[1747]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lockhart |first1=L. |title=Nadir Shah |date=1938 |publisher=Al-Irfan |location=London |page=18 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.236028/page/n29/mode/2up?q=1688 |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] ''(bapt.)'' &ndash; [[Charles Rivington]], English publisher (d. [[1742]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Rivington family |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-70881 |year=2004 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/70881}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Le Pere Ferdinand Verbiest.gif|thumb|right|110px|[[Ferdinand Verbiest]]]]
[[File:James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde by William Wissing.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond]]]]

* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant |date=1926 |publisher=St. Catherine Press |page=590 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUxmAAAAMAAJ&dq=James+Howard,+3rd+Earl+of+Suffolk+7+january+1688&pg=PA590 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang]], concubine of Qing Dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (b. [[1613]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sr |first1=Arthur W. Hummel |title=Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period: 1644-1911/2 |date=1 January 2018 |publisher=Berkshire Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-61472-849-8 |page=705 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ge9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA705 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Verbiest]], Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. [[1623]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herbermann |first1=Charles |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia |date=1912 |volume=15|location=New York|publisher=Robert Appleton Company |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PqkKeeFYUVgC&dq=Ferdinand+Verbiest+%2228+january+1688%22&pg=PA346 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Abraham Duquesne]], French naval officer (b. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vergé-Franceschi |first1=Michel |title=Abraham Duquesne: huguenot et marin du Roi-Soleil |date=1992 |publisher=France-Empire |isbn=978-2-7048-0705-5 |page=323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZcZAAAAIAAJ&q=%222%20f%C3%A9vrier%201688%22 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[David Christiani]], German mathematician and philosopher (b. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Biographie |first1=Deutsche |title=Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie |date=1876 |publisher=Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Science |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz8299.html#adbcontent |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[James Renwick (Covenanter)|James Renwick]], Scottish minister and Covenanter martyr (b. [[1662]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tarantino |first1=Giovanni |last2=Zika |first2=Charles |title=Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |page=175 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/pdfviewer/ |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Johann Sigismund Elsholtz]], German naturalist and physician (b. [[1623]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ferguson |first1=John |title=Bibliotheca chemica |date=1906 |publisher=Holland Press |location=London |page=238 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Jhw86w4BXYC&dq=Johann+Sigismund+Elsholtz+%2228+february+1688%22&pg=PA238 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet]] of England (b. [[1636]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SLINGSBY, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt |url=http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/slingsby-sir-thomas-1636-88 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise]] (b. [[1615]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Poupardière |first1=Charles Louis de Foucault de la |title=Histoire de Léopold 1er. Duc de Lorraine et de Bar|date=1791 |publisher=Emm. Flonn |location=Bruxelles |page=422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1nJgAAAAcAAJ&dq=Marie+de+Lorraine+%223+mars+1688%22&pg=PA422 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Honoré Fabri]], French mathematician (b. [[1608]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elazar |first1=Michael |title=Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks |date=20 May 2011 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-007-1605-6 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oflPGMWcdd8C&dq=Honor%C3%A9+Fabri+%228+march+1688%22&pg=PR7 |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Maria of Orange-Nassau (1642–1688)|Maria of Orange-Nassau]], Dutch princess (b. [[1642]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Maria prinses van Oranje (1642-1688) |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/MariavanOranje |website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Marcantonio Giustinian]], 107th Doge of Venice (b. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite web |title=GIUSTINIAN, Marcantonio |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marcantonio-giustinian_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=11 June 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill (1620–1688)|Winston Churchill]], English noble, soldier (b. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |title=Dictionary of National Biography |date=1887 |publisher=Macmillan |page=342 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wy0JAAAAIAAJ&dq=Winston+Churchill+%2226+march+1688%22&pg=PA342 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna]], Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (b. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dohna |first1=Friedrich von Burggraf |title=Les mémoires du Burgrave et Comte Frédéric de Dohna |date=1898 |publisher=B. Teichert |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2KJPAAAAYAAJ&dq=Friedrich+von+Dohna+%2227+marz+1688&pg=PR35 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow]], German nobleman, titular Duke of Mecklenburg (b. [[1638]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mülverstedt |first1=George Adalbert von |title=Die brandenburgische Kriegsmacht unter dem Großen Kurfürsten: quellenmäßige Darstellung aller einzelnen, in der Zeit von 1640 bis 1688 bestehenden kurbrandenburgischen Regimenter |date=1888 |publisher=Baensch |page=336 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q92HoC84gcMC&dq=Friedrich+zu+Mecklenburg+%2228+april+1688%22&pg=PA336 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg|Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1620]])<ref name="FE" />
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Antoine Furetière]], French writer (b. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bever |first1=Adolphe van |title=Les poètes du terroir du XVe siècle au XXe siècle |date=1918 |publisher=Delagrave |page=419 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlYNAQAAMAAJ&dq=Antoine+Fureti%C3%A8re+%2214+mars+1688%22&pg=PA419 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Johannes Andreas Quenstedt]], German theologian (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Hermann Julius |title=Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon |date=1907 |publisher=Bibliographisches Institut |page=416 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEAWAAAAYAAJ&dq=Johann+Andreas+Quenstedt+%2222+mai.+1688%22&pg=PA516 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Peder Hansen Resen]], Danish historian (b. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bricka |first1=Carl Frederik |title=Dansk biografisk Lexikon |date=1905 |volume=14|publisher=F. Hegel & Søn |location=Copenhagen |page=13|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/14/0015.html |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Henry of Bavaria]], Roman Catholic bishop (b. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bumüller |first1=Johannes |title=Lehrbuch der Weltgeschichte |date=1897 |publisher=Herdersche Verlagshandlung |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dr0tAAAAYAAJ&dq=Maximilian+Heinrich+von+Bayern+%223+juni+1688%22&pg=PA202 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Constantine Phaulkon]], Greek adventurer (b. [[1647]])<ref name="CP" />
* [[June 26]] 
** [[John Claypole]], English politician (b. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Claypole [Cleypole, Claypoole], John |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-5567 |year=2004 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5567}}</ref>
** [[Ralph Cudworth]], English philosopher (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sgarbi |first1=Marco |title=Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy |date=27 October 2022 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-319-14169-5 |page=923 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81yYEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ralph+Cudworth+%2226+june+1688%22&pg=PA923 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Richard Winwood (MP)|Richard Winwood]], English politician (b. [[1609]])<ref>{{cite web |title=WINWOOD, Richard (1609-88) |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/winwood-richard-1609-88 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere]], Italian nobleman and Duke of Bomarzo (b. [[1618]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lorin |first1=Giuseppe |title=Transtiberim: Trastevere, il mondo dell'oltretomba |date=7 February 2020 |publisher=Bibliotheka Edizioni |isbn=978-88-6934-295-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bspKDwAAQBAJ&dq=Ippolito+Lante+Montefeltro+della+Rovere+%2229+giugno+1688%22&pg=PT346 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; King [[Narai of Thailand]] (b. [[1639]])<ref name="NA" />{{rp|453}}
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde]], Irish statesman (b. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |last2=Burke |first2=J. Bernard |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1848 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |page=765 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99lDAQAAMAAJ&dq=James+Butler,+%2221+july+1688%22&pg=PA765 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Henry Morgan]], Welsh privateer and Governor of Jamaica (b. c. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Morgan, Sir Henry |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-19224 |year=2004 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/19224}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[John Bunyan]], English writer (b. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brittain |first1=Vera |title=In the steps of John Bunyan : an excursion into Puritan England |date=1987 |publisher=Bedfordshire Leisure Services |location=Bedford |isbn=978-1-85351-022-9 |page=390 |url=https://archive.org/details/instepsofjohnbun0000brit/page/390/mode/2up?q=%2231+august%22 |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet|Robert Viner]], Lord Mayor of London (b. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Vyner [Viner], Sir Robert |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28318 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28318}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Claude Mellan]], French painter and engraver (b. [[1598]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=De Montaiglon |first1=M. Anatole |last2=Mariette |first2=Pierre Jean |title=Claude Mellan |date=1856 |publisher=P. Briez |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlsCAAAAYAAJ&q=%229%20septembre%201688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Bright, Sir John, baronet |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3419|year=2004 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3419}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Queen Jangnyeol]], Korean royal consort (b. [[1624]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Jacques Goulet]], early pioneer in New France (now Québec) (b. [[1615]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française |date=1964 |publisher=Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française |page=227 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OclhAAAAMAAJ&q=%2226%20Novembre%201688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[October 4]]
** [[Philips Koninck]], Dutch painter (b. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Philips Koninck |url=https://rkd.nl/en/artists/45590|publisher=[[Netherlands Institute for Art History]], RKD}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerson |first1=Horst |last2=Koninck |first2=Philips |title=Philips Koninck: ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der holländischen Malerei des XVII. Jahrhunderts : mit vollständigem Oeuvrekatalog |date=1980 |publisher=Gebr. Mann |isbn=978-3-7861-1284-6 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjNHAQAAIAAJ&q=6%20oktober%201688 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Roger Pepys]], English lawyer and politician (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite web |title=PEPYS, Roger |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/pepys-roger-1617-88 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle]], English statesman (b. [[1653]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ashley |first1=Maurice |title=General Monck |date=1977 |publisher=Rowman and Littlefield |isbn=978-0-87471-934-5 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aRygAAAAMAAJ&q=%226%20october%201688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Claude Perrault]], French architect (b. [[1613]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Picon |first1=Antoine |title=Claude Perrault, 1613-1688, ou, La curiosité d'un classique |date=1988 |publisher=Picard |isbn=978-2-85822-081-6 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfFPAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%229%20octobre%201688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Joachim von Sandrart]], German Baroque art-historian and painter (b. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bühler |first1=Johannes |title=Deutsche Geschichte: Ergänzter Neudruck |date=1950 |publisher=W. de Gruyter |page=324 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzXRAAAAMAAJ&q=%2214%20oktober%201688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange]], French philologist (b. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France |date=1922 |publisher=Librairie d'Argences |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRAMAAAAIAAJ&dq=Charles+du+Fresne,+sieur+du+Cange+22+octobre+1688&pg=PA70 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Philippe Quinault]], French dramatist (b. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France |date=1924 |volume=47|publisher=H. Champion |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UypMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Philippe+Quinault+%2226+novembre+1688%22&pg=PA111 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Bohuslav Balbín]], Czech writer and Jesuit (b. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kalista |first1=Zdeněk |title=Bohuslav Balbín |date=1939 |publisher=Fr. Porov'y |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LjgAAAAAMAAJ&q=Bohuslav+Balb%C3%ADn+%22+29.+listopadu+1688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=cs}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet]], Member of Parliament (b. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SEYMOUR, Sir Edward, 3rd Bt. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/seymour-sir-edward-1610-88 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Thomas Flatman]], British artist (b. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aronson |first1=Julie |last2=Wieseman |first2=Marjorie E. |title=Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum |date=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |page=178 |isbn=9780300115802 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tm9AUEJCYQ0C&dq=Thomas+Flatman+%228+december+1688%22&pg=PA178 |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Gaspar Fagel]], Dutch statesman (b. [[1634]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peele |first1=Ada |title=Een uitzonderlijke erfgenaam: De verdeling van de nalatenschap van Koning-Stadhouder Willem III |date=2013 |publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren |isbn=978-90-8704-393-3 |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VAgUAgAAQBAJ&q=Gaspar%20Fagel%20%2215%20december%201688%22 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart]], French military man, brother of [[Madame de Montespan]] (b. [[1636]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trabouillet |first1=Louis |title=Etat de la France |date=1718 |location=Paris |page=258 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVhbLkxlYyYC&dq=Louis+Victor+de+Rochechouart+de+Mortemart+%2215+septembre+1688%22&pg=PA258 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>

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