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  • July 19Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.
  • August 6 – The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and makes plans to attack Vienna.
  • August 12Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for 10 days.
  • August 23 – A comet that will later become known as Comet Halley, is observed from several locations on Earth after reaching magnitude 2 and becoming visible to the naked eye. Arthur Storer sees it from the North American colony of Maryland, while German astronomer Johannes Hevelius measures it from Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland). <ref>"Comet Halley 1682", in Atlas of Great Comets, by Ronald Stoyan (Cambridge University Press, 2015) p. 90</ref> Edmond Halley successfully predicts that it will return in 1758.
  • August 25 – Following the Bideford witch trial, three women (probably) become the penultimate known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.<ref>Template:Cite book 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. {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 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 the year 1702.
  • The Richard Wall House, believed to be the longest continuously inhabited residence in the US, is built in Pennsylvania.


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