Year 1688 (MDCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1688
January – June
July – December
Undated
Births
1688 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1688
MDCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita
2441
Armenian calendar
1137
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar
-156 – -155
Berber calendar
2638
Buddhist calendar
2232
Burmese calendar
1050
Byzantine calendar
7196 – 7197
Chinese calendar
丁卯年十一月廿八日
(4324/4384-11-28)
— to —
戊辰年十二月初九日
(4325/4385-12-9)
Coptic calendar
1404 – 1405
Ethiopian calendar
1680 – 1681
Hebrew calendar
5448 – 5449
Hindu calendars
-
Vikram Samvat
1743 – 1744
-
Shaka Samvat
1610 – 1611
-
Kali Yuga
4789 – 4790
Holocene calendar
11688
Iranian calendar
1066 – 1067
Islamic calendar
1099 – 1100
Japanese calendar
Jōkyō 5
Genroku 1
(元禄元年)
Korean calendar
4021
Thai solar calendar
2231
- January 18 – Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
- February 2 – Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
- February 4 – Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (d. 1763)
- February 8 – Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)
- March – William Burnet, British colonial administrator (d. 1729)
- April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
- April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
- May 22 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
- June 10 – James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender (d. 1766)
- July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
- August 14 – King Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
- September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
- October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
- October 22 – Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
- date unknown – Charles Rivington, English publisher (d. 1742)
See also Category: 1688 births.
Deaths
- January 7 – James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
- February 2 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
- April 29 – Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
- May 14 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
- June 5 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
- June 26 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
- July 11 – Narai of Thailand (b. 1639)
- July 21 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman (b. 1610)
- August 25 – Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer and Governor of Jamaica (b. c. 1635)
- August 31 – John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
- September 2 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
- October 6 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1653)
- October 23 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
- November 26 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (b. 1635)
- December 15 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (b. 1634)
See also Category: 1688 deaths.