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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 ).

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''

--- Yohannes I , Emperor Of Ethiopia

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

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