Ayutthaya’s King Narai, a son of King…

Russia joins the Holy League after 1686, the first time the country has formally joined an alliance of European powers.

Christian V of Denmark had introduced Danske Lov (the Danish Code) in 1683, the first law code for all of Denmark; it is succeeded by the similar Norske Lov (Norwegian Code) of 1687.

The Kingdom of Kandy has survived the attacks of Ceylon's colonial Portuguese rulers, partly by allying with the Dutch.

While all the other Sinhalese kingdoms had been extinguished by the Portuguese in the early 1600s, Kandy survives with stubborn persistence.

Rajavaliya, a historical chronicle of Sri Lanka covering the history of the island from its legendary beginnings up to the accession of Kandyan King Vimaladharmasurya II in 1687, is the only continuous history of the island written in the Sinhalese language prior to the British period.

Unlike many other Sri Lankan historical chronicles, the Rajavaliya deals mainly with political rather than religious (Buddhist) events.

Its style is a popular rather than a learned one, and historians believe it to have been the work of more than one hand.

It is considered to be especially useful for the period after 1359.

Aurangzeb seizes the Shi’ite Sultanate of Golconda in 1687.

The Portuguese on the island of Mombasa, off present-day Kenya, have for many years dominated the gold and slave trade on the eastern coast of Africa.

The natives of Mombasa in 1652 had asked the sultan of Oman on the Arabian peninsula for help in expelling the Portuguese; he had sent a fleet that raided the Portuguese-held island of Zanzibar to the south of Mombasa.

This was the start of a long struggle between the Omanis, who are Arab Muslims, and the Portuguese, who are European Christians, for control of the East African coast, its natural resources, and the profitable African slave trade.

A former king of Pate (an island off Kenya) in 1687 appeals to the Portuguese for help in regaining his kingdom from the Omanis.

The Portuguese fleet on arrival at Pate finds a stronger Omani fleet waiting and is forced to retreat to Mombasa to the south.

Bissau originates in 1687 as a Portuguese fortified post and slave-trading center.

The Venetians under Morosini seize from the Ottoman Turks parts of Dalmatia and ...

...the Morea (Peloponnesus) between 1685 and 1687.

Pope Innocent, despite his friendship with Miguel de Molinos, the Spanish mystic and proponent of the doctrine of Christian perfection known as Quietism, had allowed Molinos to be arrested by the papal police and tried for personal immorality and heresy in 1685.

Some twenty thousand of his letters have been examined, and he and numerous witnesses have been interrogated, resulting in his sentence to life imprisonment and the condemnation by Innocent, in 1687, of sixty-eight propositions embodying Molinos' doctrine.

Innocent is amenable to the plans of Europe’s Grand Alliance to subdue Louis XIV of France; it is a decision from which the Republic of St. Peter will never recover.

European scientists have by the late seventeenth century begun to investigate the properties of the soft, resilient, natural plant product known to the French as caoutchouc, from the Awawak cachuchu, “the wood that weeps”.