1682 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s – 1680s – 1690s 1700s 1710s
Years:	1679 1680 1681 – 1682 – 1683 1684 1685

1682 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1682 MDCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2435
Armenian calendar	1131 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	6432
Balinese saka calendar	1603–1604
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	1603–1604
- Kali Yuga	4782–4783
Holocene calendar	11682
Igbo calendar	682–683
Iranian calendar	1060–1061
Islamic calendar	1092–1094
Japanese calendar	Tenna 2 (天和２年)
Javanese calendar	1604–1605
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4015
Minguo calendar	230 before ROC 民前230年
Nanakshahi calendar	214
Thai solar calendar	2224–2225
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1808 or 1427 or 655 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1809 or 1428 or 656

Year 1682 was a common year that started on a Thursday when using the Gregorian calendar.

Events

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 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.
October 31 – The city of Bideford, England two men and one woman were some of the last to be executed for witchcraft in England. They were accused of speaking in unknown languages as well as practicing knowledge beyond their natural abilities, and acting in peculiar manners. The woman, Guenevere Damascus, as well as her lover (name unknown) and their spiritual mentor were burned at the stake.

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 writer, 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
date unknown Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman Empire (born 1627)