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Years: 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 - 1682 - 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.

• 1682 in literature
• 1682 in science

• February 13 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, painter (died 1754)
• June 27 - Charles XII of Sweden, king of Sweden 1697-1718 (died 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)

• October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician and philosopher