1682

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