1682 in England

1682 thumb | right | alt=Oil painting showing the shipwreck of H.M.S. Gloucester at sea off Great Yarmouth in 1682. | Painting depicting H.M.S. Gloucester aground on the Lemon and Ower Sandbank on 6 May 1682, carrying James, Duke of York. Events from the year 1682 in England. Incumbents Monarch – Charles II Events 11 March – work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 6 May – while on passage from Portsmouth to Scotland, Gloucester 1660 6 runs aground on a sandbank off the Norfolk coast and sinks. The Duke of York (the future King James II) and John Churchill (the future 1st Duke of Marlborough) are among those saved but at least 120 drown.Shipwreck The Gloucester hailed most important since Mary Rose https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61734192 2022-06-10 BBC News 2022-06-10 25 August – following the Bideford witch trial, three women become (probably) the penultimate known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.Gent Frank J. The Trial of the Bideford Witches Bideford 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. The Devon "Witches" https://exetercivicsociety.org.uk/plaques/devon-witches/ Exeter Civic Society 2022-07-27 September – Halley's Comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself. 20 September – The Duke of Monmouth is arrested in Stafford for riotous behaviour. 19 November – fire at Wapping makes 1,500 homeless.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 194–196 0-7126-5616-2 20 November – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, flees to Holland after being accused of planning a coup against King Charles II. 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 1702. Births 16 April – John Hadley, inventor (died 1744) 10 July – Roger Cotes, mathematician (died 1716) Deaths 12 February – Thomas Thynne, landowner and politician (born 1647/1648) 19 October – Sir Thomas Browne author, physician and philosopher (born 1605) 19 November – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (born 1619) References 1682 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England