1682
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This article is about the year 1682.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1650s 1660s 1670s – 1680s – 1690s 1700s 1710s |
| Years: | 1679 1680 1681 – 1682 – 1683 1684 1685 |
| 1682 by topic: | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1682 MDCLXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2435 |
| Armenian calendar | 1131 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6432 |
| 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) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 4015 |
| Minguo calendar | 230 before ROC 民前230年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2224–2225 |
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1682 (MDCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Julian calendar, the 1682nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 682nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1680s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1682 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- 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–December[edit]
- 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 14 – Bishop Gore School in Swansea, Wales, is founded.
- September – A comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley, after Edmond Halley successfully predicts that it will return in 1758.
- 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.
Date unknown[edit]
- 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, believed to be the longest continuously-inhabited residence in the USA, is built in Pennsylvania.
Births[edit]
- February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
- April 16 – John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
- May 17 – Bartholomew Roberts, a.k.a. Black Bart, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
- June 17 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
- July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
- August 16 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (d. 1712)
- October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
Deaths[edit]
- February 25 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639; murdered)
- March 14 – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Dutch painter (b. c. 1628)
- April 1 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, German politician and Archbishop of Strasbourg (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 (b. c. 1640)
- 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, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1610)
- November 19 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, German soldier, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
- November 23 – Claude Lorrain, Lorraine-born landscape painter (b. c. 1600)
- Mariam Dadiani, Queen Dowager of Kartli (b. 1599/1609)
- The Great 5th Dalai Lama of Tibet (b. 1617)
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
