Year 1688 was a leap year that started on a Thursday when using the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 16th century17th century18th century
Decades: 1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years: 1685 1686 168716881689 1690 1691
1688 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1688
MDCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2441
Armenian calendar1137
ԹՎ ՌՃԼԷ
Assyrian calendar6438
Balinese saka calendar1609–1610
Bengali calendar1095
Berber calendar2638
English Regnal yearJa. 2 – 1 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar2232
Burmese calendar1050
Byzantine calendar7196–7197
Chinese calendar丁卯(Fire Rabbit)
4384 or 4324
    — to —
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4385 or 4325
Coptic calendar1404–1405
Discordian calendar2854
Ethiopian calendar1680–1681
Hebrew calendar5448–5449
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1744–1745
 - Shaka Samvat1609–1610
 - Kali Yuga4788–4789
Holocene calendar11688
Igbo calendar688–689
Iranian calendar1066–1067
Islamic calendar1099–1100
Japanese calendarJōkyō 5 / Genroku 1
(元禄元年)
Javanese calendar1611–1612
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4021
Minguo calendar224 before ROC
民前224年
Nanakshahi calendar220
Thai solar calendar2230–2231
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1814 or 1433 or 661
    — to —
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1815 or 1434 or 662

Events change

Undated change

  • Austria occupies Belgrade.
  • Francesco Morosini becomes Doge of Venice.
  • Fire destroys Bungay in England.
  • Ottoman Turks besiege Vienna.
  • Neuruppin becomes a Prussian garrison town.
  • Antonio Verrio begins work on the Heaven Room at Burghley House.
  • Janez Vajkard Valvasor becomes a member of the Royal Society.
  • The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.

Births change

for more information, see Category:1688 births.
  • January 18 – Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1765)
  • January 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian (died 1772)
  • February 2 – Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (died 1741)
  • February 4 – Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (died 1763)
  • March – William Burnet, British colonial administrator (died 1729)
  • April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (died 1768)
  • April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (died 1758)
  • May 22 – Alexander Pope, English poet (died 1744)
  • June 10 – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (died 1766)
  • July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (died 1766)
  • August 14 – King Frederick William I of Prussia (died 1740)
  • September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (died 1731)
  • October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (died 1726)
  • October 22 – Nadir Shah of Persia (died 1747)
  • Date Unknown – Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)

Deaths change

for more information, see Category:1688 deaths.