Photo credit Wally Gobetz

In the year 1682, Robert de La Salle claims the territory at the mouth of the Mississippi River as La Louisiane for France (Apr 9), Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles (May 6), the reign of Peter the Great officially begins in Russia (May 7), three women are hanged for witchcraft in Exeter, the last known in England (Aug 25), the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn (Oct 27) - and all these fine people were born:

1682-xxxx Lars Carlsson Bredarholm** father of Antti Laurinpoika Bredarholm - Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1765/c. 83)

1682-xxxx Henrietta Paulet* Duchess of Bolton – England (1730/c.47)

1682-0204 Johann Friedrich Böttger* alchemist/ – Schleiz, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire (1719/37)

1682-0310 Martti Rekonpoika Hastig* soldier/wildlife manager - Parkano, Sweden-Finland (1784/101)

1682-0403 Valentin Rathgeber* German organist/ composer/choirmaster - Oberelsbach, Bavaria (1750/68)
1682-0411 Jean-Joseph Mouret* composer - Avignon, France (1738/56)
1682-0416 John Hadley* mathematician/inventor - Bloomsbury, London, England (1744/61)
1682-0417 Gustaf Bonde* count/civil servant/politician - Stockholm, Sweden (1764/82)

1682-0617 Carl XII* King of Sweden from age 15/“the Warrior King” – Three Crowns Castle, Stockholm, Sweden (1718/36)

1682-0710 Roger Cotes* mathematician/ proofreader of the second edition of Newton’s Principia - Burbage, Leicestershire, England (1716/33)

1682-1128 Betty Parris* instigator in Salem witch trials – Boston, Massachusetts (1760/77)

Updated 29.3.2023-1
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