1682
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1682 (MDCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1682
January - June
- March 11 - Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England.
- April 7 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, exploring rivers in America, reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River.
- April 9 - At the mouth of the Mississippi River, near modern Venice, Louisiana, Robert de La Salle buries an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory as "La Louisiane" for France.
- May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
- May 7 - Official beginning of the reign of Peter the Great.
- May 11 - Moscow Uprising of 1682: a mob takes over the Kremlin and lynches the leading boyars and military commanders.
July - December
- July 19 - Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- August 12 - Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for ten days.
- September - Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself.
- September 14 - Bishop Gore School in Swansea, Wales is founded.
- October 27 - The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.
Undated
- The first black slaves arrive in Germany.
- The Richard Wall House is built in Pennsylvania.
Births
- February 25 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)
- April 16 - John Hadley, inventor (died 1744)
- June 27 - King Charles XII of Sweden (died 1718)
- July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
- August 16 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (died 1712)
- October 29 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)
Deaths
- February 25 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (born 1644)
- March 14 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (born c.1628)
- April 1 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (born 1625)
- April 3 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (born 1618)
- May 7 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
- July 12 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (born 1620)
- September 8 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (born 1606)
- October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician, and philosopher (born 1605)
- November 19 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (born 1619)
- November 23 - Claude Lorrain French painter (born c.1600)
- date unknown
- Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia
- Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman empire (born 1627)
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