1682 in England:

Other years

1680 1680 in England Events from the year 1680 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 November - A second Exclusion Bill is proposed to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York from inheriting the throne.* 15 November - The Exclusion Bill is defeated in the House of Lords....  | 1681 1681 in England Events from the year 1681 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 18 January - 'Exclusion Bill Parliament' dissolved.* 14 March - William Penn receives a royal charter to establish a sectarian colony in the Americas....  | 1682 | 1683 1683 in England Events from the year 1683 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 9 January - Charles II gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the King's Evil" ceremony....  | 1684 1684 in England Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:*15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.*10 May - Titus Oates arrested for perjury.*31 July - The village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire....

Events

• 11 March - The Royal Hospital Chelsea
  Royal Hospital Chelsea
  The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age, located in the Chelsea region of central London, now the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is a true hospital in the original sense of the word,...
  
   for old soldiers is founded in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
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• 25 August - Following the Bideford witch trial
  Bideford witch trial
  The Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford in Devon...
  
  , three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter
  Exeter
  Exeter is a historic city in Devon, England. It lies within the ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district, and is therefore under the administration of the...
  
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• September - Halley's Comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley
  Edmond Halley
  Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley...
  
   himself.
• 19 November - Fire at Wapping
  Wapping
  Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the Docklands to the east of the City of London. It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames and the ancient thoroughfare simply called The Highway...
  
   makes 1,500 homeless.
• 20 November - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Holland, after being accused of planning a coup against King Charles II.

Births

• 16 April - John Hadley
  John Hadley
  John Hadley was an English mathematician, inventor of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, around 1730.He was born in Bloomsbury, London, to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley....
  
  , inventor (died 1744
  1744 in Great Britain
  Events from the year 1744 in Great Britain.-Incumbents:*Monarch - King George II*Prime Minister - Henry Pelham, Whig-Events:* 22 February–23 February - War of the Austrian Succession: British fleet defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Toulon.* 27 February - A planned French invasion...
  
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• 10 July - Roger Cotes
  Roger Cotes
  Roger Cotes FRS was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas and first introduced what is known today as...
  
  , mathematician (died 1716
  1716 in Great Britain
  Events from the year 1716 in Great Britain.-Events:* January - The Duke of Argyll disperses the remainder of the Jacobite troops.* 10 February - The pretender James Francis Edward Stuart flees to France...
  
  )

Deaths

• 12 February - Thomas Thynne
  Thomas Thynne (landowner)
  Thomas Thynne was an English landowner of the family that is now headed by the Marquess of Bath and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1670 to 1682. He went by the nickname "Tom of Ten Thousand" due to his great wealth...
  
  , landownder and politician (born 1647/1648
  1648 in England
  Events from the year 1648 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 17 January - The Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the Second English Civil War....
  
  )
• 19 October - Sir Thomas Browne
  Thomas Browne
  Sir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....
  
   author, physician and philosopher (born 1605)
• 19 November - Prince Rupert of the Rhine
  Prince Rupert of the Rhine
  Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, 1st Duke of Cumberland, 1st Earl of Holderness , commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, KG, FRS was a noted soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist during the 17th century...
  
  , Royalist commander in the English Civil War (born 1619)