1688
- 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.
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Births
| 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 |
| Chinese calendar | 4324/4384-11-28 (丁卯年十一月廿八日) — to —
4325/4385-12-9(戊辰年十二月初九日) |
| 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 5Genroku 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 (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)
- See also Category: 1688 births.
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Deaths
- January 7 - James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
- February 2 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (born 1610)
- April 29 - Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (born 1620)
- May 14 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (born 1619)
- June 5 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (born 1667)
- June 26 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
- July 11 - Narai of Thailand (born 1639
- July 21 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman (born 1610)
- August 25 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer and Governor of Jamaica (born c. 1635)
- August 31 - John Bunyan, English writer (born 1628)
- September 2 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (born 1631)
- October 6 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (born 1653)
- October 23 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (born 1610)
- November 26 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
- December 15 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (born 1634)
- See also Category: 1688 deaths.
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