Editing 1682 (section)

=== 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.