1682 Calendar
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1682 Historical Event(s)
April 9, 1682
– Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
May 6, 1682
– Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
August 24, 1682
– William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
September 14, 1682
– Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
October 27, 1682
– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
Who Were Born On 1682?
February 25, 1682
– Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
April 16, 1682
– John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744)
May 17, 1682
– Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
June 17, 1682
– King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
July 10, 1682
– Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
August 16, 1682
– Louis, duc de Bourgogne, dauphin of France (d. 1712)
October 29, 1682
– Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
December 21, 1682
– Calico Jack Rackham, English pirate (d. 1720)