1688 AD
July 19 - Giuseppe Castiglione (Italian missionary to China) was born (died: 1766)
August 31 - John Bunyan (English Christian writer) died (born: 1628)
November 23 - A group of 1,500 Old Believers suicide to avoid capture when troops of the tsar laid siege to their monastery on Lake Onega
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