1688 year

• Transfer of the Mongolian Khongodor tribe in the amount of 1 thousand wagons (4-5 thousand people) from the Mongolian Altai and Hangai (Confederation of Oirats, Dzasaktu Khanate, Tushetu Khanate) to the Eastern Sayans ( Russian Empire ) with the adoption of Russian citizenship.
• The 5,000th Mongol detachment of the Khalkha Tushetu Khan attacked the Selenginsky prison .
• The coup d'etat in England , which was called the "Glorious Revolution" , the outcome of which was the victory of the bourgeoisie over absolutism , the establishment of a constitutional monarchy . Mary II Stuart and her husband (in the status of co-ruler) William of Orange (William III) were elevated to the throne.
• June 30 - As a result of the conspiracy of the Whig and Tory leaders , William of Orange sent an invitation to appear in England and take the throne. Beginning of November - Wilhelm with a 12,000-strong army landed in Torbay (South-West England). November 8 - He entered Exeter and moved to London. Ministers, members of the royal family, army commander John Churchill (Glorious Revolution) took his side. Jacob arrived in Kent. December 18 - William arrived in London. Jacob left England. Wilhelm declared Regent.
• In September, Louis XIV decided to send his troops to the Palatinate , which served as a pretext for starting a war between France and the Augsburg League . The war ended with the signing of the Riswick Peace in 1697 .
• 1688-1697 - The war of France with the Augsburg League. The French in the land war on the Rhine and in the Netherlands, in Italy and Spain remained generally victorious, although at sea the English fleet inflicted several serious defeats on them.
• 1688-1713 - Elector of Brandenburg Frederick III.
• Austrian troops occupied eastern Hungary, Slavonia , Banat, captured Belgrade and began to move deep into Serbia. The Serbian volunteer army opposed the Turks.
• Serbian feudal lord Georgy Brankovich was sent to the Austrian army to prepare the Serbs against the Turks. Brankovic tried to independently organize the rebellion of the Serbs. The Austrians arrested him.
• 1688-1714 - Lord of Wallachia Konstantin Brynkovyanu (1654-1714).
• Uprising in northwestern Bulgaria (in Chiprovets ), in Serbia and Macedonia. End of the year - The brutal suppression by the Turks of the uprising in Ciprovec .
• The ruler of Wallachia, Shcherban Kantakuzino, the former Patriarch of Constantinople Dionysius and the Serbian patriarch Arseny III Charnoevich sent letters to Russia asking for help.
• The French founded a trading post in Chandernagore ( Bengal ).
• As a result of the internecine war provoked by the Manchus, the Khalkha-Mongol feudal lords were defeated by the Oirat Khan Galdan and came under the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
• Denis Papen published, with his constructive additions, a description of the project of a powder engine in the form of a cylinder with a piston submitted by H. Huygens to the Paris Academy of Sciences .

See also: Category: Born in 1688

• January 29 - Swedenborg, Emanuel , a Swedish scholar and mystic theosophist.

See also: Category: Deaths in 1688

• May 14 - Antoine Fuerrier, French writer, founder of the genre of everyday realistic novel.
• Shepelev Aggey Alekseevich , the first Russian general.