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In 1682 Robert de La Salle canoed down the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, naming the entire Mississippi basin “ La Louisiane ” in honor of King Louis XIV.
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* 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).
In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed a large territory, including the Chicago area, for France.
Craighead County was part of the territory claimed by France on April 9, 1682 by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle who laid claim to all of the land drained by the Mississippi River and its assorted tributaries.
It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as " Rivière des Yazous " in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth.
In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.
* Robert Carr ( 1637 – 1682 ), British politician, Privy Counsellor of England
* Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe ( c. 1658 – 1682 ), eldest son of the 2nd Earl
* " Pensées Diverses sur l ' Occasion de la Comète " ( 1682 ) translated as " Various Thoughts on the Occasion of the Comet " ( 2000 ) by Robert C. Bartlett, SUNY Press.
John Robartes ' eldest son, Robert, was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and died there in February 1682.
* 1682 / 83 Robert Peach John Whitby
He married Catherine Brudenell, daughter of Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, during the winter of 1682 – 1683.
The assassination plot centred on a group that was convened in 1682 – 3 by Robert West of the Middle Temple, a Green Ribbon Club member: it is now often called the Rye House cabal.
In fact West's contacts with the Monmouth cabal, and knowledge of their intentions, were in part quite indirect ; Thomas Walcott and Robert Ferguson had accompanied Shaftesbury to the Netherlands, in his self-imposed exile of November 1682.
* Robert Arbuthnot, 2nd Viscount of Arbuthnott ( d. 1682 )
* Robert Johnson ( governor ) ( 1682 – 1735 ), South Carolina
The Baronetcy, of Boyle Abbey in the County of Roscommon, had been created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1682 for his grandfather Robert King.
Robert Ward, uncle of Nicholas Ward, was created a Baronet in 1682 ( see Ward Baronets ).
* 1682: Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the entire Mississippi Valley for France, naming the area Louisiana.
* Robert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull ( c. 1660 – 1682 ), eldest son of Robert Pierrepont ( grandson of the 1st Earl ), died without issue
* In addition to his magnum opus, the Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu for which he wrote 6 volumes, as Jesuit historiographer Bartoli produced 5 Jesuit Lives: Vincenzo Caraffa 1651, Robert Bellarmine 1678, Stanislas Kostka 1678, Francis Borgia 1681, and his science teacher Niccolo Zucchi 1682
He was succeeded as 3rd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull by Robert ( d. 1682 ), a son of Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, and as 4th Earl by Robert's brother William ( d. 1690 ).
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In 1682 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle went down the Mississippi from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.
* 1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian ( d. 1761 )
New town, founded by the will of King Louis XIV, it was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789, before becoming the cradle of the French Revolution.
* February 2 – Claude de la Colombière, French Catholic priest ( d. 1682 )
* February 1 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian ( b. 1682 )
" The Italians were expelled from France in 1697 for satirizing King Louis XIV's second wife, Madame de Maintenon, but returned in 1716 ( after his death ), when Tommaso Antonio Vicentini (" Thomassin ", 1682 – 1739 ) became famous in the part.
* February 18 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France ( b. 1682 )
In secret marriage, Louis XIV wed his second wife, Madame de Maintenon, in 1683 ; Louis the Grand Dauphin wed Marie Émilie de Joly de Choin in 1695 ; Anne Marie d ' Orléans ( La Grande Mademoiselle ) wed Antoine, Duke of Lauzun in 1682 ; and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans wed the Marquise de Montesson in 1773.
The Protestant Academy of Sedan had been founded in 1579 at the initiative of Françoise de Bourbon, widow of Henri-Robert de la Marck ; in 1682 the Protestant Academy at Sedan was suppressed and de Moivre enrolled to study logic at Saumur for two years.
First came the Traité de la connaissance de Dieu et de soi-même ( 1677 ), then the Discours sur l ' histoire universelle ( 1679, published 1682 ), and lastly the Politique tirée de l ' Ecriture Sainte ( 1679, published 1709 ).
* Sermon sur l ' unité de l ' Église ( 1682 )
Portrait of Russian boyar Pyotr Potemkin by Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1681 – 1682
The principality was captured by the forces of King Louis XIV of France under François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the Franco-Dutch War in 1672, and again in August 1682.
From the 17th century onwards, a much admired and copied version of Ionic was that which could be seen in the temple called that of " Fortuna Virilis " in Rome, first clearly presented in a detailed engraving in Antoine Desgodetz, Les edifices antiques de Rome ( Paris 1682 ).
In 1682, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle claimed the territory west of the Mississippi River for France, which included present-day Sullivan County.
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Two of La Salle's men built a stockade at the portage in the winter of 1682 / 1683.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle landed there in 1682.
In 1682, after his successful journey from the Great Lakes to the mouth of the Mississippi River at the Gulf of Mexico, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the Louisiana Territory for France.
On April 9, 1682, at the mouth of the Mississippi River near modern Venice, Louisiana, La Salle buried an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory for France.
In 1682, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was the first European to travel from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
This found its way onto printed maps, even though in a report written in 1682 La Salle tried to correct himself: " On the east one comes first to the river called by the Savages Ouisconsing, or Misconsing, which flows from the east.
The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as " Rivière des Yazous " in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth.
In the spring of 1682, Tonti journeyed with La Salle on his famous descent of the Mississippi River.
French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built Fort St. Louis on a large butte by the Illinois River in the winter of 1682.
* La Gnomonique ou l ' Art de faire des Cadrans au Soleil ( 1682 )
French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built Fort St. Louis on a large butte by the river in the winter of 1682.
Jean-Félix Picard ( July 21, 1620 – July 12, 1682 ) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand.
* Joseph-Antoine de La Barre ( 1622 – 1688 ), governor of New France from 1682 to 1685
In 1682 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led an expedition down the Mississippi River.
The chief of his other works are La Manière de bien penser sur les ouvrages d ' esprit ( 1687 ), which appeared in London in 1705 under the title, The Art of Criticism, Vie de Saint Ignace de Loyola ( 1679 ), Vie de Saint François Xavier ( 1682 ), and a translation of the New Testament into French ( 1697 ).
They were both native to La Tremblade, Santonge, France and were naturalized in London in 1682.
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