1682
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| Years: 1679 1680 1681 - 1682 - 1683 1684 1685 | |||
| Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s | |||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England
- May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
- July 19 - Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- First black slaves arrive in Germany
- Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself
- In Russia, half-brothers Ivan V and Peter I named tsar - Peter's half-sister Sofia becomes regent
Births
- February 25 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
- April 16 - John Hadley, inventor (d. 1744)
- June 27 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
- July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
- August 16 - Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir to the throne of France (d. 1712)
- October 29 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
Deaths
- February 25 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1644)
- March 14 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter
- April 1 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1625)
- April 3 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
- May 7 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
- July 12 - Jean Picard, French astonomer (b. 1620)
- September 8 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. [1606]])
- October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician, and philosopher (b. 1605)
- November 19 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
- November 23 - Claude Lorrain French painter
- Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia
