1682 in England

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11 March - Work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers in London.^[1]
25 August - Following the Bideford witch trial, three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.^[2]
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.^[3]
20 November - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Holland, after being accused of planning a coup against King Charles II.^[3]

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)

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Gent, Frank J. (1982). The Trial of the Bideford Witches. Bideford.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 194–196. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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