1682 - What happened in 1682 ?

April 1682

Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.

William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

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