1682

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Year '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).

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Events of 1682

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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 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.

★ October 27 - The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.

Undated

★ René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle leads a crew of 40, travelling down the Mississippi River and naming the Mississippi basin "Louisiana" in honour of Louis XIV.

★ The first black slaves arrive in Germany.

★ The Richard Wall House is built in Pennsylvania.

★ Bishop Gore School in Swansea, Wales is founded.

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)
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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''

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★ Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia

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★ Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman empire (born 1627)
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