1682

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Years:	1679 1680 1681 – 1682 – 1683 1684 1685

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1682 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1682 MDCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2435
Armenian calendar	1131 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	6432
Bahá'í calendar	−162 – −161
Bengali calendar	1089
Berber calendar	2632
English Regnal year	33 Cha. 2 – 34 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2226
Burmese calendar	1044
Byzantine calendar	7190–7191
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4378 or 4318 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4379 or 4319
Coptic calendar	1398–1399
Discordian calendar	2848
Ethiopian calendar	1674–1675
Hebrew calendar	5442–5443
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1738–1739
- Shaka Samvat	1604–1605
- Kali Yuga	4783–4784
Holocene calendar	11682
Igbo calendar	682–683
Iranian calendar	1060–1061
Islamic calendar	1092–1094
Japanese calendar	Tenna 2 (天和２年)
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4015
Minguo calendar	230 before ROC 民前230年
Thai solar calendar	2225
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Events

March 11 – Work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers in London.^[1]
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 – The reign of Peter the Great officially begins in Russia.
May 11 – Moscow Uprising of 1682: A mob takes over the Kremlin and lynches the leading boyars and military commanders.

July 19 – Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.
August 12 – Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for 10 days.
August 25 – Following the Bideford witch trial, three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.^[2]
September – A comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley, after Edmond Halley successfully predicts that it will return in 1758.
September 14 – Bishop Gore School in Swansea, Wales, is founded.
October 12 – Sultan Mehmed IV departs Istanbul for Adrianople.
October 19 – Kara Mustafa departs with the Ottoman army to Adrianople.
October 27 – The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.

Celia Fiennes noblewoman and traveller, begins her journeys across Britain, in a venture that would prove to be her life's work. Her aim was to chronicle the towns, cities and great houses of the country. Her travels continued until at least 1712, and would take her to every county in England, though the main body of her journal was not written until the year 1702.
The Richard Wall House is built in Pennsylvania.

February 25 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1644)
March 14 – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Dutch painter (b. c. 1628)
April 1 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1625)
April 3 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
May 7 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
July 12 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
July 19 – Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia
September 8 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician, and philosopher (b. 1605)
November 4 – Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, astronomer and cartographer (b. {b. 1610}
November 19 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
November 23 – Claude Lorrain French painter (b. c. 1600)
Mariam Dadiani, Queen Dowager of Kartli (b. 1599/1609)

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Gent, Frank J. (1982). The Trial of the Bideford Witches. Bideford.

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