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1682 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday 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. As of the start of 1682, the ...
In April 1682, the expedition reached the Gulf of Mexico. There, La Salle named the Mississippi basin La Louisiane [28] in honor of Louis XIV and claimed it for France. [29] [30] During 1682–83, La Salle, with Henry de Tonti, established Fort Saint-Louis of Illinois at Starved Rock on the Illinois River to protect and hold the region for ...
11 March – work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers in London. [1]6 May – while on passage from Portsmouth to Scotland, HMS Gloucester runs aground on a sandbank off the Norfolk coast and sinks.
The Treaty of Shackamaxon, also called the Great Treaty and Penn's Treaty, was a treaty between William Penn and Tamanend of the Lenape signed in 1682. The treaty created peace between the Quakers and Lenape, with Tamanend saying the two would "live in peace as long as the waters [ran] in the rivers and creeks and as long as the stars and moon ...
By 1682, the area of modern Philadelphia was inhabited by about fifty Europeans, mostly subsistence farmers living in and around the Wicaco settlement. [ 17 ] Penn later journeyed up the river and founded Philadelphia with a core group of accompanying Quakers and others seeking religious freedom on lands he purchased from the local chieftains ...
In the aftermath of the streltsy rebellion, on 25 June 1682 the Patriarch Ioakim crowned the incompetent Ivan as senior tsar and Peter, only nine years old, as junior tsar. Sophia had been deemed the sole intellectually mature member of the ruling family at the time of Feodor's death, making her the favourite to govern on behalf of the child ...
1682. Charles XII of Sweden. February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771) April 16 – John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
Events from the year 1682 in France. Incumbents. Monarch – Louis XIV [1] Events. Construction of the Canal de la Bruche started; Births. Louis, Duke of Burgundy.