Editing 1682 (section)

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; The [[Republic of Genoa]] forbids the unauthorized printing of newspapers and all handwritten newssheets; the ban is lifted after three months.
* [[January 12]] &ndash; Scottish minister [[James Renwick (Covenanter)|James Renwick]], one of the [[Covenanters]] resisting the Scottish government's suppression of alternate religious views, publishes the Declaration of [[Lanark]]. 
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The Ottoman Empire army is mobilized in preparation for a war against Austria that culminates with the 1683 [[Battle of Vienna]].
* [[January 24]] &ndash; The first public theater in Brussels, the [[Opéra du Quai au Foin]], is opened.
* [[February 5]] &ndash; In Japan, on the 28th day of the 12th month in the year Tenna 1, a major fire sweeps through Edo (now Tokyo).
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Otway]]'s classic play ''[[Venice Preserv'd]] or A Plot Discover'd'' is given its first performance, premiering at the [[Duke's Company|Duke's Theatre]].  
* [[March 11]] &ndash; Work begins on construction of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]] for old soldiers in London, [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]], exploring rivers in America, reaches the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]].
* [[April 9]] &ndash; 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 ''[[Louisiana (New France)|La Louisiane]]'' for France.
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Louis XIV of France]] moves his court to [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]].
* [[May 7]] (April 27 O.S.) &ndash; Upon the death of the Tsar [[Feodor III of Russia|Feodor III]] of Russia, Feodor's younger brother, 15-year-old [[Ivan V of Russia|Ivan]] is passed over in favor of a half-brother, 10-year-old [[Peter the Great|Peter]].  
* [[May 11]] &ndash; The [[Moscow uprising of 1682]] occurs when a mob, outraged by the rejection of Prince Ivan and upset over rumors that Ivan has been strangled, invades the [[Kremlin]] and lynches the leading boyars and military commanders.  Ivan V and Peter I are named co-rulers of Russia as a result of a compromise between Peter's mother [[Natalya Naryshkina]] and Ivan's mother [[Maria Miloslavskaya]] and both are crowned a month later.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; The English trading freighter ''[[Johanna (East Indiaman)|Johanna]]'' is wrecked off of the coast of South Africa with the loss of 10 of her 114 crew, becoming the first of Britain's [[East India Company]] fleet to be lost.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; The Indonesian city of [[Bandar Lampung]] is founded on the island of [[Sumatra]].
* [[June 25]] (June 15 O.S.) &ndash; Ivan V and Peter I are crowned as joint Tsars of Russia at the [[Cathedral of the Dormition]] in Moscow, with actual power exercised by their older sister, [[Sophia Alekseyevna]] for the next seven years.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Iyasus I of Ethiopia|Iyasus]] succeeds his father [[Yohannes I of Ethiopia|Yohannes I]] as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[August 6]] &ndash; The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and makes plans to attack [[Vienna]]. 
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Vesuvius]] begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for 10 days.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; A [[comet]] that will later become known as [[Comet Halley]], is observed from several locations on Earth after reaching magnitude 2 and becoming visible to the naked eye.  [[Arthur Storer]] sees it from the North American colony of Maryland, while German astronomer [[Johannes Hevelius]] measures it from [[Danzig]] (now Gdansk in Poland). <ref>"Comet Halley 1682", in ''Atlas of Great Comets'', by Ronald Stoyan (Cambridge University Press, 2015) p. 90</ref>  [[Edmond Halley]] successfully predicts that it will return in [[1758]].
* [[August 25]] &ndash; Following the [[Bideford witch trial]], three women (probably) become the penultimate known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at [[Exeter]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gent|first=Frank J.|title=The Trial of the Bideford Witches|location=Bideford|year=1982}} Another woman was sentenced to be hanged for witchcraft in Exeter in 1685 although there is no surviving confirmation that the sentence was carried out. {{cite web|title=The Devon "Witches"|url=https://exetercivicsociety.org.uk/plaques/devon-witches/|publisher=Exeter Civic Society|accessdate=2022-07-27}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Bishop Gore School]] is founded in [[Swansea]], Wales.
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Trịnh Căn]] becomes the new ruler of [[Tonkin]] (located in the northern part of [[Vietnam]] as far south as the [[Hà Tĩnh province]] upon the death of his father, [[Trịnh Tạc]], and begins a program of reforms.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; Sultan [[Mehmed IV]] departs [[Istanbul]] for [[Adrianople]].
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Kara Mustafa]] departs with the Ottoman army to [[Adrianople]].
* [[October 27]] &ndash; The city of [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] is founded by [[William Penn]].
* [[November 22]] &ndash; Nearly 1,000 houses in [[Wapping]], London are destroyed in a fire.<ref name=Fires>{{cite book|chapter=Fires, Great|title=The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance|editor-first=Cornelius|editor-last=Walford|publisher=C. & E. Layton|year=1876|page=44}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[William Penn]] meets with [[Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore]] for the first discussion of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, fixed at [[40th parallel north|40 degrees north]].  Recognizing that 40° north would remove Pennsylvania's access to the sea, Penn proposes a purchase of some of Maryland's territory. 
* [[December 27]] &ndash; Colonists from the German electorate of Brandenburg arrive at [[Akwidaa]] on the Brandenburger Gold Coast at what is now [[Ghana]] and, five days later, begin building a fort at what is now Princes Town.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Celia Fiennes]], noblewoman and traveller, begins her journeys across Britain, in a venture that will prove to be her life's work. Her aim is to chronicle the towns, cities and great houses of the country. Her travels continue until at least [[1712]], and will take her to every county in England, though the main body of her journal is not written until the year [[1702]].
* The [[Wall House (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania)|Richard Wall House]], believed to be the longest continuously inhabited residence in the US, is built in [[Pennsylvania]].
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