1782

Years: 1779 1780 1781 - 1782 - 1783 1784 1785
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1782 in art 1782 in literature 1782 in music 1782 in science List of state leaders in 1782 List of religious leaders in 1782

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 7 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
January 15 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage
February 5 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
March 8 - In Ohio the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women, and 34 children were killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
April 6 - Rama I succeeded King Taksin of Thailand who was overthrown in an coup d'etat.
April 12 - A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies.
June 18 – In Switzerland, Anna Goldi in sentenced to death for witchcraft – the last legal witchcraft sentence
August 7 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic "Purple Heart".
November 30 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris).
London creates Foot Patrol for public security
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries try to cross the English Channel with a hot-air balloon
British parliament extends James Watt's copyright for the steam engine to the year 1800

May 15 - Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese prime minister
May - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (born 1714)
September 6 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Wife of 3rd President Thomas Jefferson (born 1748)
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Whig politician, prime minister 1765-66 and 1782 (born 1730)
Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (born 1736)
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (born 1698)
Giovannini, Italian composer
Hyder Ali, Indian general, sultan of Mysore (born c1722)
Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematical physicist (born 1700)
Johann Christian Bach, German composer (born 1735)
Metastasio, Pen name of Pietro Armando Dominico Trapassi, Italian poet and librettist (born 1698)