Timeline October 1687

Events in October 1687 3

• 1606 – 1687 Edmund Waller (1606-1687) Died 21 October 1687, aged 81 Edmund Waller was an English poet and politician known for his smooth, measured verse, which influenced the development of the heroic couplet. He sat in Parliament at various times under Charles I, the Commonwealth, and Charles II, surviving the era's political upheavals through shifting allegiances. His collected poems were widely read well into the eighteenth century.
• 1687 – 1768 Robert Simson (1687-1768) Died 1 October 1768, aged 80 Simson was a Scottish mathematician and professor at the University of Glasgow known for his editions of Euclid's Elements and his work on classical geometry. The Simson line in triangle geometry is named in his honor. He spent nearly his entire career teaching at Glasgow.
• 1687 Hungarian Diet makes the Habsburg crown hereditary Diet of Pressburg ends Hungary's elective monarchy and crowns Joseph I The Hungarian Diet meeting at Pressburg renounced the nobility's traditional right to elect their king and to resist royal authority, making the crown of Hungary hereditary in the male line of the House of Habsburg. As part of the settlement, Leopold I's son Joseph was crowned King of Hungary on 9 December. The decree cemented Habsburg control over Hungary following recent victories against the Ottomans.