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Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  - 1780s -  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1779 1780 1781 - 1782 - 1783 1784 1785

1782 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Countries:                       Canada

Great Britain - Mexico

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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Year 1782 (MDCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1782 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

• January 7 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
• January 15 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.

• February 5 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

• February 5 - 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.

• March 27 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

• April 6 - Rama I succeeded King Taksin of Thailand who was overthrown in an coup d'etat.

• April 12 - Battle of the Saintes: A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse in the West Indies.

• June 18 - In Switzerland, Anna Goldi is sentenced to death for witchcraft - the last legal witchcraft sentence.

• July 1 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

• 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.

• The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Washington, North Carolina.

1782 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1782 MDCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2535
Armenian calendar	1231 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-62 – -61
Buddhist calendar	2326
Chinese calendar	4418/4478-11-18 (辛丑年十一月十八日) — to — 4419/4479-11-27 (壬寅年十一月廿七日)
Ethiopian calendar	1774 – 1775
Hebrew calendar	5542 – 5543
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1837 – 1838
- Shaka Samvat	1704 – 1705
- Kali Yuga	4883 – 4884
Holocene calendar	11782
Iranian calendar	1160 – 1161
Islamic calendar	1196 – 1197
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 2 (天明2年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2442 (皇紀2442年)
- Jōmon Era	11782
Julian calendar	1827
Korean calendar	4115
Thai solar calendar	2325
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• January 5 - Robert Morrison, Scottish Protestant missionary to China (d. 1834)
• January 18 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
• March 4 - Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
• March 18 - John Calhoun, Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
• July 3 - Pierre Berthier, French geologist (d. 1861)
• July 26 - John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
• October 27 - Nicolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• November 1 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
• December 5 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)

• Charlotte Dacre, English author (d. 1842)
• William Miller, American preacher (d. 1849)

See also Category: 1782 births.

• January 1 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
• January 4 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
• February 9 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
• February 10 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
• March 17 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700)
• April 12 - Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
• April 27 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
• May 15 - Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese prime minister (b. 1699)
• May 16 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
• May 20 - William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
• May - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (b. 1714)
• July 1 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
• July 15 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
• August 31 - George Croghan, American colonist
• December 27 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)
• December - Hyder Ali, Indian general and Sultan of Mysore

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See also Category: 1782 deaths.